TELEVISION SYSTEM WITH AIDED USER PROGRAM SEARCHING
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Abstract
A system having an adaptive browse feature and an adaptive flip feature is provided. The adaptative browse and flip features may be selected to receive program viewing suggestions. The system may provide a suggestion by displaying an adaptive browse region or adaptative flip region including a program suggestion. The system identifies programs to suggest based on a user=s viewing activity. The system uses different algorithms that are user-selectable and user-adjustable to identify program suggestions. The system may query a program guide database to build a list of programs having attributes similar to the attributes of the current program or the last viewed program. The system may use an adaptive learning algorithm such as a neural network. The neural network may be trained by the program guide by monitoring user-viewing activity.
Each algorithm may be personalized for multiple users.
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178 Claims
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1-177. -177. (canceled)
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178. A method for recommending television programming to a user in an adaptive flip feature based on the viewing habits of a user, comprising:
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displaying available program attributes; allowing the user to select which available program attributes are to be used to recommend television programming to the user; monitoring which television programming is viewed by the user; identifying program listings related to the monitored television programming based on the selected program attributes; and allowing the user to tune to only those channels that are associated with the identified program listings when the user changes channels.
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