Method and system for recommending content items

摘要

A method for recommending content items of a content item data base to a user, including: broadcasting user group characteristics, wherein a respective user group characteristic is descriptive of a respective user group; receiving at a user's location the user group characteristics; assigning at the user's location the user to at least one of the user groups, providing user group preference data, the user group preference data being descriptive of a relation between the user groups and the content items; and recommending content items according to the user group preference data.

主权项

1. A method for recommending content items, comprising:
receiving, at a user's receiver, a broadcast of user group characteristics that describe respective user groups with relationship information that correlates the user groups with content item identifiers; receiving, at said receiver, content items with corresponding content item identifiers; assigning, at said receiver, by user selection via a user interface of said receiver, the user to at least one of said user groups based on the received user group characteristics that describe respective user groups with relationship information that correlates the user groups with content item identifiers; and recommending, at said receiver, ones of said content items based on said relationship information, an assigned user group, and said content item identifiers that are received with said content items, wherein said receiver is in one-way communication with a content provider or a service operator and a usage behavior of the user is not transmitted to the content provider or the service operator.