TELEVISION RECEPTION SYSTEM FOR RECOMMENDING BROADCAST PROGRAM VIEWING, SERVER APPARATUS, BROADCAST PROGRAM VIEWING RECOMMENDATION PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM THEREOF, AND RECORDING MEDIUM FOR THE PROGRAM

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a system for recommending or controlling selection of a particular channel or program to a viewer on the basis of the preference of the viewer in use and a view tendency of majority of viewers having the preference similar to that of the viewer.

SOLUTION: A television receiver 1 transmits a past view history of a viewer and a current or future view state to a server 2. The server 2 classifies in detail the preference of the television viewer from many view histories, classifies the viewers into groups, discriminates which program a particular viewer group mainly views at present or in future according to majority logic, and returns the result to the television receiver 1. Thus, the television receiver 1 can control channels of television programs so that other viewer with the same preference can quickly view the same program.

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