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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.

Date of Patent:
Mar. 17, 2015

Filed:

May. 16, 2011
Applicants:

Aran Sadja, San Diego, CA (US);

Jeffrey Tang, San Diego, CA (US);

Bryan Mihalov, Escondido, CA (US);

Ludovic Douillet, Escondido, CA (US);

Nobukazu Sugiyama, San Diego, CA (US);

Inventors:

Aran Sadja, San Diego, CA (US);

Jeffrey Tang, San Diego, CA (US);

Bryan Mihalov, Escondido, CA (US);

Ludovic Douillet, Escondido, CA (US);

Nobukazu Sugiyama, San Diego, CA (US);

Assignee:

Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/16 (2006.01); G06F 17/30 (2006.01); H04L 12/58 (2006.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/3089 (2013.01); H04L 51/14 (2013.01); H04L 51/32 (2013.01); H04L 67/141 (2013.01); H04L 67/306 (2013.01); H04L 67/2809 (2013.01); H04L 67/288 (2013.01); H04L 51/18 (2013.01);
Abstract

Method and systems are provided for initiating communication with a social networking server maintaining user information corresponding to a user, the user information for the user comprising media preferences for the user, one or more connections associated with the user, and media preferences for each of the one or more connections, retrieving at least a portion of the user information for the user from the social networking server and generating a viewing recommendation for the user at least in part based on at least one of the media preferences of the user, and the media preferences of the one or more connections, the viewing recommendation comprising one or more multi-media content.


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