Patent ID: 9317852
Filing Date: 2016-04-19
CPC Classification: G06Q

Claim Text:
1. A method for recommending content items, comprising: receiving, at a user's receiver, a broadcast of user group characteristics that describe respective user groups with relationship information that correlates the user groups with content item identifiers; receiving, at said receiver, content items with corresponding content item identifiers; assigning, at said receiver, by user selection via a user interface of said receiver, the user to at least one of said user groups based on the received user group characteristics that describe respective user groups with relationship information that correlates the user groups with content item identifiers; and recommending, at said receiver, ones of said content items based on said relationship information, an assigned user group, and said content item identifiers that are received with said content items, wherein said receiver is in one-way communication with a content provider or a service operator and a usage behavior of the user is not transmitted to the content provider or the service operator.