Increased user efficiency and interaction performance through user-targeted electronic program guide content descriptions

摘要

Electronic program guide descriptions, of content referenced by the electronic program guide, are user-targeted based on user data. Such user-targeted electronic program guide descriptions aid users in identifying desirable content, thereby increasing user interaction performance with a content presentation device providing such user-targeted electronic program guide descriptions. To generate user-targeted electronic program guide descriptions, received electronic program guide information includes different, alternative or mutually exclusive, content descriptions of a given content item. Such electronic program guide information is compared with the user data and user-targeted content item descriptions is generated from the different content descriptions. A visual electronic program guide, including the user-targeted content item description, is displayed to a user on a physical display device.

主权项

1. A content presentation device for increasing user interaction performance, the content presentation device comprising:
one or more processing units that execute computer-executable instructions; a graphics hardware interface communicationally coupling the content presentation device to a physical display device such that the computer-executable instructions being executed by the one or more processing units cause physical changes to the physical display device, thereby generating display content on the physical display device; and a content presentation application comprising computer-executable instructions which, when executed by at least some of the one or more processing units, cause the content presentation device to perform steps comprising:
receiving electronic program guide content information, the electronic program guide content information comprising two or more different, alternative content descriptions of a same first content item;comparing the two or more different, alternative content descriptions with user data;generating a user-targeted content item description of the first content item from at least a portion of at least one of the different, alternative content descriptions of the first content item based on the comparing of the two or more different, alternative content descriptions with the user data; andgenerating, on the physical display device, a display of an electronic program guide, the display comprising the generated user-targeted content item description.