Appeal 2007-1699
Application 10/165,904
Appellants’ invention relates to a content augmentation system to
generate, update and transform television personal preference profiles. Both
push and pull technologies are used to ascertain preferences based on
viewing patterns. The invention further analyzes user queries to determine
the depth of user requests for information; infers values from the user
requests; relates augmented content information to the internet and
specialized databases; and draws inferences about the user’s interests and
preferences (Specification 3).
Claim 1 is exemplary:
1. A method for performing content augmentation of personal
profiles comprising:
(a) building a user history of a plurality of augmented
content information of relevant TV programs;
(b) analyzing user queries and determining a degree to
which the user queried for additional content information;
(c) inferring values about the user from the user queries
for additional content information in step (b) so as to augment
the additional content information;
(d) updating the augmented content information to at
least one of the user history, Internet and specialized databases;
and
(e) linking individual ones of the plurality of augmented
content information to each other;
(f) determining inferences about the user’s interests
and preferences based on the linkage of the plurality of
augmented content information.
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