Television viewer profile initializer and related methods
First Claim
1. A method of initializing a recommender user'"'"'s personal behavior profile, the method comprising the steps of:
- collecting behavioral data from a statistically significant number of individuals, the behavioral data being in the same domain as the recommender user'"'"'s personal behavior profile will be;
generating a plurality of stereotype behavior profiles from the behavioral data; and
selecting one of the stereotype behavior profiles that best represents the user'"'"'s behavior preferences, the selected stereotype behavior profile operating as the user'"'"'s initial personal behavior profile.
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Abstract
A TV viewer profile initializer for reducing the time it takes for an implicit profiler-based TV recommender to produce accurate TV recommendations. The profiles initializer utilizes stereotype profiles from a substantial pool of TV viewing behavior of a representative number of TV viewers. By applying clustering methods to such data, stereotype profiles can emerge. New viewers are then be offered a selection of stereotype profiles to choose from to initialize their own personal TV viewing profile. Thus, a single choice will suffice to provide a predictable TV show recommender that is presumably fairly close to a viewer'"'"'s own preferences. After this initialization, the profile can be adapted by the user'"'"'s own viewing behavior to migrate from the initial stereotype towards a more accurate profile of the user.
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26 Claims
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1. A method of initializing a recommender user'"'"'s personal behavior profile, the method comprising the steps of:
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collecting behavioral data from a statistically significant number of individuals, the behavioral data being in the same domain as the recommender user'"'"'s personal behavior profile will be;
generating a plurality of stereotype behavior profiles from the behavioral data; and
selecting one of the stereotype behavior profiles that best represents the user'"'"'s behavior preferences, the selected stereotype behavior profile operating as the user'"'"'s initial personal behavior profile. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 18, 19, 20)
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17. A profile initializer for a behavior recommender, the profile initializer comprising:
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a behavior database for storing behavioral data of a statistically significant number of individuals; and
a stereotype profiler for building a selection of stereotype behavior profiles from the behavioral data, the stereotype behavior profiles for offering to a user of the recommender to initialize the user'"'"'s personal behavior profile.
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21. An adaptive behavior recommender comprising:
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a behavior database for storing behavioral data of a statistically significant number of individuals;
a stereotype profiler for building a selection of stereotype behavior profiles from the behavioral data, the stereotype behavior profiles being offered to a user of the recommender for initializing the user'"'"'s personal behavior profile; and
a recommender for making behavior recommendations based on the user'"'"'s selected stereotype behavior profile. - View Dependent Claims (22, 23, 24, 25, 26)
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