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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 08, 2018
Filed:
Sep. 04, 2012
Jan Korst, Eindhoven, NL;
Mauro Barbieri, Eindhoven, NL;
Ramon Antoine Wiro Clout, Eindhoven, NL;
Serverius Petrus Paulus Pronk, Vught, NL;
Jan Korst, Eindhoven, NL;
Mauro Barbieri, Eindhoven, NL;
Ramon Antoine Wiro Clout, Eindhoven, NL;
Serverius Petrus Paulus Pronk, Vught, NL;
Funke Digital TV Guide GmbH, Berlin, DE;
Abstract
A recommender engine for recommending content items to a user comprises a profile generation unit having a pre-profile input unit, which is configured to receive pre-profile data comprising pre-profile text data suitable for identifying entities of interest to a given user, and having a pre-profile analysis unit, the entities of interest and to generate an initial user profile data set for the given user from the extracted identification data; a query generation unit, to generate at least two queries semantically different from each other to be directed to at least one content repository; a content retrieval unit, to issue the generated queries to the content repository and to receive in response to the queries, content-related response data comprising respective hit lists and an interleaver unit to generate from the different hit lists a single recommendation list.