Patent ID: 11960509
Assignee: TIVO CORPORATION
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A method comprising:
identifying a first plurality of views for a content item initiated by a first plurality of user devices;
increasing a weighting factor score for the content item based on the number of views in the first plurality of views;
identifying a second plurality of views for the content item initiated by a second plurality of user devices;
in response to determining that a total numbers of views for the content item comprising the number of views in the first plurality of views and a number of views in the second plurality of views exceeds a viewing cap threshold:
capping the total number of views at the viewing cap threshold;

storing the weighting factor score for the content item in a database, wherein the weighting factor score is based on the capped total number of views; and
transmitting a content recommendation based on the stored weighting factor score for the content item.