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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 12, 2013
Filed:
May. 11, 2011
Siddhartha Gunda, Eluru, IN;
Nilanjan Roy, New Delhi, IN;
Muhil Rajamanickam, Madurai, IN;
Vijay Prabhu Baskaran, Chennai, IN;
Jubish Cheriya Parambath, Chennai, IN;
Anand N. Sankaran, Chennai, IN;
Siddhartha Gunda, Eluru, IN;
Nilanjan Roy, New Delhi, IN;
Muhil Rajamanickam, Madurai, IN;
Vijay Prabhu Baskaran, Chennai, IN;
Jubish Cheriya Parambath, Chennai, IN;
Anand N. Sankaran, Chennai, IN;
Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Abstract
A method including providing a television service to customers; identifying a customer when the customer uses the television service; tracking content viewed by the customer; calculating probabilities based on the customer's viewing of contents, wherein the probabilities pertain to features applicable to the viewed contents and the features include genres of the viewed contents; selecting one or more upcoming contents, available at a future date to the customer, to recommend to the customer based on one or more features applicable to the upcoming content that correspond to one or more features applicable to the viewed contents; and providing a user interface to permit the customer to select from the one or more upcoming contents recommended to the customer.