Method and system to maintain relative statistics for creating automatically a list of favorites
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1. A method for a broadcast system comprising:
- detecting a tuning event;
maintaining relative statistics on one or more items related to the tuning event, the maintaining of the relative statistics includes eliminating any occurrence of rollover of count values by adjusting the relative statistics of each item of the one or more items in response to a count value of a first item of the one or more items reaching a predetermined value, the rollover being a condition where the count value of the first item of the one or more items, the count value being a relative statistics of the one or more items, reaches the predetermined value before being reset; and
creating a list of favorites based on the maintained relative statistics.
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Abstract
A method and system are disclosed in which a tuning event is detected. Relative statistics are maintained on one or more items related to the tuning event. A list of favorites is created automatically based on the maintained relative statistics. By using relative statistics, ranking of favorites can be maintained efficiently within limited system resources. Furthermore, a viewer can be presented with a selection of favorites based on a number of items without having to program manually the list of favorites.
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37 Claims
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1. A method for a broadcast system comprising:
- detecting a tuning event;
maintaining relative statistics on one or more items related to the tuning event, the maintaining of the relative statistics includes eliminating any occurrence of rollover of count values by adjusting the relative statistics of each item of the one or more items in response to a count value of a first item of the one or more items reaching a predetermined value, the rollover being a condition where the count value of the first item of the one or more items, the count value being a relative statistics of the one or more items, reaches the predetermined value before being reset; and creating a list of favorites based on the maintained relative statistics. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
- detecting a tuning event;
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13. A broadcast system comprising:
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a display; a receiver coupled to the display and to store relative statistics, to detect a tuning event, to maintain the relative statistics related to a plurality of items of the tuning event, to eliminate any occurrence of rollover of a count value by automatically adjusting the count value of each of the plurality of items relative to each other once one of the plurality of items reaches a maximum value so that an order of the plurality of items according to count value remains intact, and to create automatically a list of favorites based on the relative statistics in the memory. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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21. An apparatus comprising:
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a front-end including a tuner; a memory to store relative statistics; and a processor in communication with the front-end and the memory, the processor to (i) detect a tuning event, (ii) maintain the relative statistics on one or more items related to tuning events, the relative statistics include a count value identifying either a number of times or a time interval that the item has been tuned to and received by the front-end, (iii) eliminate any occurrence of rollover of the count value by at least adjusting the count value of each of the one or more items relative to each other upon reaching a predetermined value prior to being reset, and (iv) create a list of favorites based on the relative statistics in the memory. - View Dependent Claims (22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29)
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30. An article of manufacture including a machine-readable medium having encoded thereon instructions that executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform the operations comprising:
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detecting a tuning event where a channel is continuously tuned in for over a selected period of time; maintaining relative statistics on one or more items related to the tuning event by eliminating any occurrence of rollover of a count value through adjustment of the count value of each of the one or more items relative to each other upon the count value reaching a predetermined value and being reset when the count value is next incremented; and creating automatically a list of favorites based on the maintained relative statistics. - View Dependent Claims (31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37)
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