SELECTIVE RECORDING FOR DIGITAL VIDEO RECORDERS USING IMPLICIT CORRELATION

摘要

A method and apparatus for identifying programming that is estimated to meet a preference of a user is provided. An implicitly correlated list (152) is generated by estimating similarity of user recording logs corresponding to a plurality of users (115) where each user recording log comprises implicit data associated with programming recorded by respective users in the plurality. In a preference engine (410), an identification of a program is taken from the implicitly-correlated list (152) and matched against content to be broadcast in the future (426) to create a matching list (414). DVR programming parameters (452) are stored in a memory (415) using the matching list (414).