System and method for providing supervised learning to associate profiles in video audiences
First Claim
1. A method of performing supervised learning to associate one or more consumer profiles within a video audience with one or more video decoders within a network, comprising the steps of:
- obtaining consumer profile data for a subset of consumer households, wherein the consumer profile data for each consumer household includes information associating one or more consumers in the consumer household to one or more video decoders in the consumer household based on which consumers in the consumer household use each of the one or more video decoders;
receiving zapping events recorded from at least one video decoder, within said network, also referred to as zapping patterns, wherein said zapping events are for a given time period;
receiving data from questionnaires providing an association of at least one consumer profile of said one or more consumer profiles to one or more video decoders for which said zapping events were recorded, wherein said received data serves as profile data;
using statistical analysis on said received profile data that provides an association of at least one consumer profile of said one or more consumer profiles to one or more video decoders for which said zapping events were recorded to infer a relation between one or more of the zapping patterns and at least one of the consumer profiles of said one or more consumer profiles that is associated with one of the video decoders; and
determining, based on the inferred relation, said received data and said received zapping events, a set of consumer profiles associated with one or more of the video decoders for which no consumer profile data was obtained; and
determining a probability that each consumer profile in said set of consumer profiles has been using said one or more of the video decoders for which no profile data was received from questionnaires during a time period represented in said zapping events recorded.
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Abstract
A system and method for providing supervised learning to associate profiles in video audiences is provided. The method includes: receiving data providing an association of consumer profiles and video decoders to households within a network; recording zapping events (patterns) created by consumers; and associating zapping patterns of consumers with households. The step of associating further includes: collecting external data and converting a format of the external data into an internal format; converting zapping logs into different data models that can be used to provide set top box signatures; providing the set top box signatures; using the set top box signatures with a list of set top boxes and profiles to provide an association rule; and applying the association rule to the set top box signatures to determine a list of profiles of the consumer profiles associated with a specific set top box of the set top boxes.
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29 Claims
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1. A method of performing supervised learning to associate one or more consumer profiles within a video audience with one or more video decoders within a network, comprising the steps of:
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obtaining consumer profile data for a subset of consumer households, wherein the consumer profile data for each consumer household includes information associating one or more consumers in the consumer household to one or more video decoders in the consumer household based on which consumers in the consumer household use each of the one or more video decoders; receiving zapping events recorded from at least one video decoder, within said network, also referred to as zapping patterns, wherein said zapping events are for a given time period; receiving data from questionnaires providing an association of at least one consumer profile of said one or more consumer profiles to one or more video decoders for which said zapping events were recorded, wherein said received data serves as profile data; using statistical analysis on said received profile data that provides an association of at least one consumer profile of said one or more consumer profiles to one or more video decoders for which said zapping events were recorded to infer a relation between one or more of the zapping patterns and at least one of the consumer profiles of said one or more consumer profiles that is associated with one of the video decoders; and determining, based on the inferred relation, said received data and said received zapping events, a set of consumer profiles associated with one or more of the video decoders for which no consumer profile data was obtained; and determining a probability that each consumer profile in said set of consumer profiles has been using said one or more of the video decoders for which no profile data was received from questionnaires during a time period represented in said zapping events recorded. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22)
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23. A system for providing supervised learning to associate one or more consumer profiles within a video audience with one or more video decoders within a home network, wherein consumer profile data is obtained for a subset of consumers in the video audience and the consumer profile data for each consumer is associated with one or more of the video decoders in the home network, the system comprising:
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logic to receive zapping events recorded from at least one video decoder, within said home network, also referred to as zapping patterns, wherein said zapping events are for a given time period; logic to receive data providing an association of at least one of the consumer profile of said one or more consumer profiles to one or more of the video decoders for which said zapping events were recorded, wherein said received data serves as profile information; and logic to use statistical analysis on the received data to infer a relation between one or more of the zapping patterns and at least one consumer profile of said one or more consumer profiles that is associated with one of the video decoders within the home network; and determining from said received data and said received zapping patterns, a set of consumer profiles associated with one or more of said video decoders for which no consumer profile data was obtained from said received data; and determining a probability that each consumer profile in said set of consumer profiles has been using said one or more video decoders during a time period represented in said zapping pattern, further comprising a management application that comprises; logic to convert a format of external data into an internal format; logic to convert zapping logs into different data models that can be used to provide set top box signatures; logic to provide said set top box signatures; logic to use said set top box signatures with a list of set top boxes and of said one or more consumer profiles to provide an association rule; and logic to apply said association rule to said set top box signatures to determine a list of profiles of said one or more consumer profiles associated with a specific set top box of said set top boxes. - View Dependent Claims (24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29)
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