System and method for personalized TV
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Abstract
A Personal TV System receives a plurality of video segments constituting a TV program and information describing each segment, and controls the display of the segments to a viewer in accordance with preferences of the viewer and with the description of each segment. Segments may be omitted or replaced with substitute segments. The viewer may review his preferences and edit or replace them. In a multi-viewer household, the system may prompt a viewer to confirm her preferences. A TV program may contain interactive segments, and when the viewer chooses to interact with a particular segment, the system automatically stores all subsequently received segments for later viewing while the viewer interacts with the selected segment. The system may present TV program choices to the viewer selected and arranged in accordance with her preferences.
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20 Claims
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1-15. -15. (canceled)
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16. A method for delivering customized video programming to each of a plurality of individual viewers, comprising:
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processing information indicative of preferences of each of the plurality of viewers to develop a viewer characteristics information profile for each of the viewers;
analying viewing selections made by an individual viewer;
selecting the viewer profile most indicative of the viewing selections; and
prompting the individual viewer to confirm that the selected profile corresponds to the individual viewer. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18, 19)
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20-31. -31. (canceled)
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