Recommendation of media content on a media system

• US 20060059260A1
• Filed: 04/22/2003
• Published: 03/16/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 05/21/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. (Koninklijke Philips N.V.)
• Original Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. (Koninklijke Philips N.V.)
• Inventors: Van Gassel, Jozef Pieter, Kelly, Declan Patrick
• Application Number:
  US10/514,590
• Publication Number:
  US 20060059260A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/225
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/00 Editing; Indexing; Addressing; Timing or synchronising; Monitoring; Measuring tape travel
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/252 Processing of multiple end-users' preferences to derive collaborative data
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/25883 being end-user demographical data, e.g. age, family status or address arrangements for identifying locations of users in broadcast systems H04H60/52
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/25891 being end-user preferences retrieval of video data in a video database based on user preferences G06F16/739; arrangements for recognizing users' preferences H04H60/46; user profiles in network data switching protocols H04L67/306; processing of user preferences or user profiles in wireless networks H04W8/18
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4826 using recommendation lists, e.g. of programs or channels sorted out according to their score
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/17318 Direct or substantially direct transmission and handling of requests

Abstract

A method, a media system of/for recommending media content on the media system (103) by use of a first set (300) of preference profiles stored on the media system and a second set (301) of preference profiles stored on a server (101), wherein each preference profile of said two sets of preference profiles comprises preferred media content saved with characteristics of a community on the server, and saved with characteristics of a user on the media system. The media system can be a TV, a computer, a personal video recorder, a set-top box or a radio. The media content can be TV, video, a radio broadcasting, Internet or Internet sites. The community characteristics can be a community name, a profession, an employer, a department of the employer, a group, a sub-group, a region of living, a sex, sexual preferences, etc. The preferred media content can be categories such as comedy, horror, sport, opera, news, etc. The method includes the steps of: transferring a selected first community characteristics (105) to the server from the media system; determining, on the server, a third set of preference profiles (302) with a third preferred media content from the second set of preference profiles, wherein the third set has characteristics matching the received first community characteristics; transferring the third set of preference profiles from the server to the media system in response to the received first community characteristics; and recommending media

Claims

1. A method of recommending media content on a media system (103) by use of a first set (300) of preference profiles stored on the media system and a second set (301) of preference profiles stored on a server (101), wherein each preference profile of said two sets of preference profiles comprises preferred media content saved with characteristics of a community on the server, and saved with characteristics of a user on the media system, the method comprising the steps of:

transferring (1000) a selected first community characteristics (105) to the server from the media system;

determining (2000), on the server, a third set of preference profiles (302) with a third preferred media content from the second set of preference profiles, wherein the third set has characteristics matching the received first community characteristics;

transferring (3000) the third set of preference profiles from the server to the media system in response to the received first community characteristics; and

recommending (4000) media content (307) on the media system based on the third preferred media content of the received third set of preference profiles, based on, optionally, the first preferred media content of the first set of preference profiles stored on the media system and a media content available (24) to the media system.

2. A method according to claim 1, characterized in that the method further comprises the step of:

storing (5000) the received third set of preference profiles on the media system to the first set of preference profiles.

3. A method according to claim 1, characterized in that the method further comprises the step of:

modifying (6000) and storing the first set of preference profiles.

4. A method according to claim 1, characterized in that the method further comprises the sub-steps of:

sending (7000) an information property, on the basis of a user input on the media system, to the server;

determining (8000), on the server, a fourth set of preference profiles comprising a fourth preferred media content, wherein the fourth preferred media content is generated on basis of said information property and the second set of preference profiles stored on the server;

transferring (9000) the fourth preference profile from the server to the media system to the first set of preference profiles stored on the media system in response to the received information property; and

recommending (10000) further media content on the media system based on the fourth preferred media content of the received fourth preference profile and the media content available to the media system.

5. A method according to claim 1, characterized in that the media system is one from the group comprising TV, computer, personal video recorder, set-top box and radio.

6. A method according to claim 1, characterized in that the media content is one from the group comprising TV, video, a radio broadcasting, Internet TV and Internet sites.

7. A computer system for performing the method according to claim 1.

8. A computer program product comprising program code means stored on a computer readable medium for performing the method of claim 1 when said computer program is run on a computer.

9. A media system for recommending media content by use of a first set of preference profiles stored on the media system and a second set of preference profiles stored on a server, said media system comprising:

means for (23) transferring a selected first community characteristics (105) to the server;

means for receiving (23), determined on the server, a third set of preference profiles with a third preferred media content from the second set of preference profiles, wherein the third set has characteristics matching the received first community characteristics; and

means for recommending (109) media content based on the third preferred media content of the received third set of preference profiles, based on, optionally, the first preferred media content of the first set of preference profiles stored on the media system and a media content available to the media system.

10. A media system according to claim 9, characterized in that the media system further comprises:

means for (109) storing the received third set of preference profiles system to the first set of preference profiles.

11. A media system according to claim 9, characterized in that the media system further comprises:

means for (23) sending an information property, on the basis of a user input, to the server;

means for (23) receiving, determined on the server, a fourth set of preference profiles comprising a fourth preferred media content, wherein the fourth preferred media content is generated on basis of said information property and the second set of preference profiles stored on the server; and

means for recommending (109) further media content based on the fourth preferred media content of the received fourth preference profile and the media content available to the media system.