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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:
Dec. 08, 2015

Filed:

Mar. 27, 2013
Applicant:

Verizon and Redbox Digital Entertainment Services, Llc, Basking Ridge, NJ (US);

Inventors:

Brian F. Roberts, Dallas, TX (US);

Christina S. Siegfried, Irving, TX (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/258 (2011.01); H04N 21/278 (2011.01); H04N 21/433 (2011.01); H04N 21/482 (2011.01); H04N 21/84 (2011.01); G06F 17/30 (2006.01); H04N 21/25 (2011.01); H04N 21/475 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/4332 (2013.01); G06F 17/30002 (2013.01); G06F 17/30843 (2013.01); H04N 21/251 (2013.01); H04N 21/25891 (2013.01); H04N 21/278 (2013.01); H04N 21/475 (2013.01); H04N 21/482 (2013.01); H04N 21/4826 (2013.01); H04N 21/4828 (2013.01); H04N 21/84 (2013.01);
Abstract

An exemplary method includes a theme-based media program discovery system 1) concurrently maintaining data representative of a first active media program curation heuristic that specifies a first set of curation parameters associated with a media program theme and a second active media program curation heuristic that specifies a second set of curation parameters associated with the media program theme, 2) curating, based on the first active media program curation heuristic, a first set of one or more media programs related to the media program theme, and 3) curating, based on the second active media program curation heuristic, a second set of one or more media programs related to the media program theme. Corresponding systems and methods are also disclosed.


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