METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CLASSIFYING CONTENT
First Claim
1. A method for classifying content, the method comprising the steps of:
- identifying a particular program in order to determine a genre or category for the program;
creating a list of words associated with the program;
accessing a database comprising stored words and their associated genres or categories for each word; and
determining the genre or category for the program based on a comparison of the list of words with the stored words and their associated genres or categories.
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Abstract
Natural-language words are associated with content. The natural-language words are identified from, for example, metadata and/or the actual content itself. Each word identified for the content is associated with the identified genre of the content (from, for example, its tagged metadata). A database is then maintained having a number of occurrences of each word from the multiple content items for each genre. Once the word/genre database is created, subgenres for a particular program/content can be created by once again using statistics from the words identified for that program to rank the most appropriate genres for the words and produce sets of the highest ranked genres.
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20 Claims
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1. A method for classifying content, the method comprising the steps of:
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identifying a particular program in order to determine a genre or category for the program; creating a list of words associated with the program; accessing a database comprising stored words and their associated genres or categories for each word; and determining the genre or category for the program based on a comparison of the list of words with the stored words and their associated genres or categories. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. A method for classifying content, the method comprising the steps of:
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creating a database by; creating a list of words associated with a first program; determining a genre of the first program; appending the list of words and their genre to a database; determining a genre or category for a second program by; identifying the second program in order to determine a genre or category for the program; creating a second list of words associated with the second program determining the genre of the second program by accessing the database and determining genres associated with words from the second list of words. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17)
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18. An apparatus comprising:
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a database comprising stored words and their associated genres or categories for each word; logic circuitry identifying a particular program in order to determine a genre or category for the program, creating a list of words associated with the program, accessing the database, and determining the genre or category for the program based on a comparison of the list of words with the stored words and their associated genres or categories. - View Dependent Claims (19, 20)
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