Patent ID: 11921780
Assignee: ROVI PRODUCT CORPORATION
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A method comprising:
receiving a list of given names corresponding to a plurality of copies of a media asset;
identifying a corresponding content source, for each of the plurality of copies of the media asset;
retrieving a criterion from the corresponding content source;
generating a reduced list of given names, wherein each of the reduced list of given names comprises a different string of characters;
for each of the reduced list of given names:
identifying a plurality of copies associated with each of the reduced list of the given names;
generating a copy score for each of the identified plurality of copies based on a criterion from the corresponding content source; and
assigning a highest score from the generated copy scores to one of the reduced list of given names; and
modifying each of the reduced list of given names that does not match the given name corresponding to the highest assigned score of the generated copy scores.