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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 18, 2015
Filed:
Apr. 03, 2009
Zhiying Jin, Lexington, MA (US);
Wenjie Liu, Waltham, MA (US);
Juhong Liu, Sudbury, MA (US);
Jimena Velarde, Arlington, MA (US);
Haosheng Guo, Nashua, NH (US);
Angel Cordero, Chatham, NJ (US);
Martin Busse, Woburn, MA (US);
Zhiying Jin, Lexington, MA (US);
Wenjie Liu, Waltham, MA (US);
Juhong Liu, Sudbury, MA (US);
Jimena Velarde, Arlington, MA (US);
Haosheng Guo, Nashua, NH (US);
Angel Cordero, Chatham, NJ (US);
Martin Busse, Woburn, MA (US);
Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Abstract
This disclosure details the implementation of apparatuses, methods and systems for improving the relevancy of Interactive Program Guide search results on a wireless user's handset and television (hereinafter, 'IPG'). The IPG implements a search facility whereby users may enter search criteria into a wireless user's handset or television or the like and receive search results sorted to provide the most relevant results first. In one embodiment, the IPG may receive search criteria into a search engine and determine one or more search results in response to the search criteria. The IPG may query one or more databases of attributes, compare the search results to the attributes, and calculate weights for each of the search results according to one or more attributes. The IPG may also sort and return the compared search results so that the results are returned in order of relevance according to the weighting.