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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 28, 2017
Filed:
Sep. 24, 2013
Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Michael P. Ruffini, Methuen, MA (US);
Lily F. Chen, Fort Lee, NJ (US);
Joseph G. Fragale, Ridgewood, NJ (US);
Dwight W. Fronsdahl, Groton, MA (US);
Sankar Subramanian, Ossining, NY (US);
Dale E. Veeneman, Southborough, MA (US);
Dongchen Wang, Concord, MA (US);
Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Abstract
A system may receive a first list of users of a provider network. For each of the first list of users, the system may obtain data pertaining to the user's categories of interest from a social media system; infer video programs based on the data; infer a list of one or more video channels based on the video programs; score the one or more video channels; rank the list of one or more video channels based on the scores; and recommend the ranked list of one or more video channels.