Collaborative recommendation system

摘要

A collaborative information system in which a first display device provides a recommendation of programming content to a viewer of a second display device, where the recommendation is based on content characteristics of the recommended content, and where the recommendation is based on assigning those content characteristics respectively different weights.

主权项

1. A system comprising:
(a) a first display device receiving first data descriptive of audiovisual content consumed by a viewer of said first display device wherein said first data includes at least two of the following categories of information:
(1) automatically extracted content characteristics of currently viewed audiovisual content;(2) automatically extracted content characteristics of previously viewed audiovisual content;(3) manual selections of content that said viewer almost selected for current viewing;(4) data extracted from a usage history profile of viewed audiovisual content not belonging to content categorized in (1) and not belonging to content categorized in (2);(5) automatically extracted content characteristics of audiovisual content described in (3) to (4);(6) keywords used when selecting audiovisual content described in at least one of (1) or (2);(7) search parameters identified during an interval prior to selection of audiovisual content described in at least one of (1) or (2); and(8) from among a plurality of different available options for browsing a selected instance of audiovisual content described in at least one of (1) or (2), the said options selected by said user; and (b) processing said first data to provide a recommendation of audiovisual content to a viewer of a second display device, where said processing assigns different nonzero weights to respectively different ones of said at least two categories of said information to provide said recommendation.