System and method for providing program recommendations through multimedia searching based on established viewer preferences

摘要

A system and method is disclosed for processing viewer profiles and program metadata from a number of sources to provide viewing suggestions and recommendations to one or more viewers.

主权项

1. A method of operation of a central program controller, the method comprising:
reviewing program recordings previously scheduled by a user via a video recording device; generating a profile using a weighted algorithm, the profile based on a specific event occurring in a certain area, user identified preferences, and the program recordings previously scheduled by the user, the weighted algorithm assigning more weight to the program recordings previously scheduled by the user than the user identified preferences; deriving metadata for a plurality of programs; comparing the profile to the metadata; selecting one of the plurality of programs based on the comparing to generate a program recommendation; and transmitting the program recommendation to the video recording device.