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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.:

US 9247300 B1

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Date of Patent:
Jan. 26, 2016

Filed:

Apr. 02, 2004

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Applicants:

Anthony Scott Oddo, Boston, MA (US);

Albert H. Perdon, Cerrito, CA (US);

Inventors:

Anthony Scott Oddo, Boston, MA (US);

Thomas L. Renger, Long Beach, CA (US);

Devin F. Hosea, New York, NY (US);

Nathaniel J. Thurston, Reykjavik, IS;

Albert H. Perdon, Cerrito, CA (US);

Assignee:

Cox Communications, Inc., Atlanta, GA (US);

Attorney:

Merchant & Gould P.C.

Primary Examiner:

Jonathan V Lewis

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/10 (2006.01); H04N 7/025 (2006.01); G06F 3/00 (2006.01); G06F 13/00 (2006.01); H04N 5/445 (2011.01); H04N 21/466 (2011.01); H04N 7/173 (2011.01); H04N 21/25 (2011.01); H04N 21/258 (2011.01); H04N 21/2668 (2011.01); H04N 21/438 (2011.01); H04N 21/442 (2011.01); H04N 21/443 (2011.01); H04N 21/45 (2011.01); H04N 21/462 (2011.01); H04N 21/475 (2011.01); H04N 21/4788 (2011.01); H04N 21/482 (2011.01); H04N 21/488 (2011.01); H04N 21/84 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/4662 (2013.01); H04N 5/44543 (2013.01); H04N 7/173 (2013.01); H04N 7/17336 (2013.01); H04N 21/252 (2013.01); H04N 21/25891 (2013.01); H04N 21/2668 (2013.01); H04N 21/4383 (2013.01); H04N 21/443 (2013.01); H04N 21/44222 (2013.01); H04N 21/4532 (2013.01); H04N 21/466 (2013.01); H04N 21/4622 (2013.01); H04N 21/4668 (2013.01); H04N 21/4758 (2013.01); H04N 21/4788 (2013.01); H04N 21/4826 (2013.01); H04N 21/4882 (2013.01); H04N 21/84 (2013.01);
Abstract

Disclosed are methods and systems for displaying content recommendations to a television viewer. In one aspect of the invention, when the user changes channel, the system displays content recommendations to the user before going to the next channel. The recommendations are based on user profiles and/or aggregated multi-user content. In a further aspect, the user can decide on one of the recommendations (or answer a yes/no query) to migrate to the corresponding content.

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