Appeal 2007-1699
Application 10/165,904
FINDINGS OF FACT
The following Findings of Fact (FF) are shown by a preponderance of
the evidence.
The Invention
1. Appellants invented a system to provide content augmentation
to generate, update and transform television personal profiles. The content
augmentation corresponds to the particular TV program data that is relevant
content information (Specification 2).
2. A user history can be built by correlating the program being
watched with an electronic program guide (EPG) that displays listings for
the available channels. Often the EPG displays the channel, the starting and
end times, the title, the names of starring actors and may even include a
short synopsis of the story line (Specification 8).
3. Viewing information can be periodically uploaded. The
building of the user history in this manner is implicit in that the user does not
expressly provide feedback or indicate likes/dislikes. The EPG data
uploaded in this manner can be analyzed to update the user history to
identify more subtle preferences. A profile based on implicit viewing can
often accurately indicate a viewer preference in lieu of or in addition to
explicit feedback (Specification 9-10).
Schaffer
4. Schaffer teaches a system for providing additional information
relating to a media selection. Enhanced content data is embodied in a
plurality of data structures, each having a plurality of nodes. A processor
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