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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 06, 2016
Filed:
May. 26, 2015
Applicant:
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Inventor:
Ranjith Jayaram, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/445 (2011.01); H04N 21/482 (2011.01); H04N 21/24 (2011.01); H04N 21/258 (2011.01); G06F 17/30 (2006.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01); H04N 21/25 (2011.01); H04N 21/442 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/4826 (2013.01); G06F 17/3053 (2013.01); H04L 67/306 (2013.01); H04N 21/2408 (2013.01); H04N 21/252 (2013.01); H04N 21/25866 (2013.01); H04N 21/44222 (2013.01); H04N 21/4821 (2013.01);
Abstract
Systems and methods for providing a program listing include storing user profile data and a user identifier for a user; storing an association of the user identifier with user identifiers for each of the plurality of social contacts of the user; receiving program identifier data representing programs currently being viewed by the social contacts; ranking the program identifier data for each of the plurality of social contacts based at least in part on the user profile data; and sending display data representing the program identifier data for display in an order based on the ranking.