Patent ID: 9277257
Filing Date: 2016-03-01
CPC Classification: H04N

Claim Text:
1. A method comprising: receiving, via one or more computer hardware components, a social networking service identifier of a video service user for a social networking service; receiving, via the one or more computer hardware components, affinity relationship information from the social networking service, wherein the affinity relationship information corresponds to the video service user and a content object related to a video content item; mapping, via the one or more computer hardware components, an affinity relationship based in part on the social networking service identifier of the video service user and the video content item; storing, via the one or more computer hardware components, the affinity relationship corresponding to the social networking service identifier and the video content item; retrieving, via the one or more computer hardware components and according to the affinity relationship, user profile data associated with a video service provider account of a video service provider system for the video service user including a video service provider account identifier, a recording preference, a recommendation preference, and a notification preference for video content items with which the video service user has the affinity relationship; querying, via the one or more computer hardware components, an inventory of the video content items available to the video service user for the video content item related to the content object according to the affinity relationship; and performing, via the one or more computer hardware components, automatic video service actions including sending a request to automatically record the video content item related to the content object to a digital video recorder associated with the video service user, sending a request to automatically tune to a channel airing the video content item related to the content object, automatically notifying the video service user when the video content item related to the content object is airing, and sending a request to provide one or more recommended video content items similar to the video content item related to the content object within the video provider system based on the user profile data when the video content item related to the content object with which the user has the affinity relationship is found in the inventory of the video content items.