User-profile controls rendering of content information

• US 20070033634A1
• Filed: 08/10/2004
• Published: 02/08/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 08/29/2003
• 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: Haisma, Nicoline, De Vaan, Robertus, Leurs, Nathalie
• Application Number:
  US10/569,174
• Publication Number:
  US 20070033634A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 725/143
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42201 biosensors, e.g. heat sensor for presence detection, EEG sensors or any limb activity sensors worn by the user input arrangements for interaction with the human body based on nervous system activity detection G06F3/015
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4402 involving reformatting operations of video signals for household redistribution, storage or real-time display details of conversion of video standards at pixel level H04N7/01; video transcoding H04N19/40; adapting incoming signals to the display format of the display terminal G09G5/005; media handling at the source in data packet switching networks H04L65/764
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/44226 on social networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4532 involving end-user characteristics, e.g. viewer profile, preferences monitoring of user activities for profile generation for accessing a video database G06F16/739; 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 21/454 Content or additional data filtering, e.g. blocking advertisements
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/458 Scheduling content for creating a personalised stream, e.g. by combining a locally stored advertisement with an incoming stream; Updating operations, e.g. for OS modules ; time-related management operations arrangements for replacing or switching information during the broadcast or during the distribution H04H20/10
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4755 for defining user preferences, e.g. favourite actors or genre retrieval personalisation and generation of user profiles for the retrieval of video data G06F16/739; user profiles in network data switching protocols H04L67/306
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/84 Generation or processing of descriptive data, e.g. content descriptors systems specially adapted for using meta-information in broadcast systems H04H60/73
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/163 by receiver means only

Abstract

A method is proposed of enabling to render mass-market content information to a user. The method comprises enabling to use a provile of the user for control of processing the electronic content for the purpose of personalizing the rendering during play-out of the content.

Claims

1. A method of enabling to render mass-market content information to a user, the method comprising enabling to use a profile of the user for control of processing the content information for the purpose of personalizing the rendering during play-out of the content information.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the profile comprises a dynamic part with biometric information about the user.

3. The method of claim 2, comprising acquiring the biometric information via a sensor coupled to the user.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the profile comprises information about a current activity of the user.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the profile comprises a static part based on at least one of:

a history of the user, a declared interest, a declared preference.

6. The method of claim 1, comprising:

providing metadata indicative of a mood affecting aspect of the content; and

enabling to match the metadata against the profile for the control of the processing.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the processing comprises storing the content for personalized rendering later on.

8. A consumer electronics system for rendering mass-market content information to a user, the system comprising:

a memory for storing a user profile; and

a controller coupled to the memory for controlling a processing of the content for the purpose of personalizing the rendering during play-out of the content, under control of the profile.

9. The system of claim 8, further comprising:

a sensor for sensing a current biometric attribute of a user;

an interpreter coupled to the sensor and the memory for interpreting an output signal from the sensor within the context of the profile.

10. The system of claim 8, configured to receive metadata indicative of a semantic or mood affecting aspect of the content, and wherein the controller is operative to match the metadata against the profile for the control of the processing.

11. Control software for being used to control a consumer electronics apparatus for rendering mass-market content information to a user, the software being configured to use a profile of the user for control of processing the content information for the purpose of personalizing the rendering during play-out of the content.

12. (canceled)