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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 15, 2014
Filed:
Dec. 15, 2009
Applicants:
Mauro Barbieri, Eindhoven, NL;
Serverius Petrus Paulus Pronk, Vught, NL;
Inventors:
Mauro Barbieri, Eindhoven, NL;
Serverius Petrus Paulus Pronk, Vught, NL;
Assignee:
Axel Springer Digital TV Guide GmbH, Berlin, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/44 (2006.01); G06N 7/02 (2006.01); G06N 7/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The present invention relates to an apparatus, a method and a computer program product for controlling a recommender system, wherein a bias is applied to the output of a recommender in order to favour newly added services and content sources. The bias may decay in time and/or with the number of ratings given to content coming from the new service.