Patent ID: 9734507
Date: 2017-08-15
CPC Classifications: G06Q,H04L,H04N

Claim:
1. A method comprising: determining when a first user of a plurality of users forming a media recommendation network is unavailable; and because the first user is unavailable simulating to a second user of the plurality of users, via a computing device, recommendations from the first user while the first user is unavailable; wherein the plurality of users is associated with a plurality of recommendation clients, and simulating recommendations from the first user comprises simulating a recommendation client from the plurality of recommendation clients associated with the first user; wherein simulating the recommendation client associated with the first user comprises: wherein selecting the media item from the plurality of media items comprises: wherein simulating the recommendation client further comprises optimizing the user preferences during simulation; and wherein optimizing the user preferences comprises modifying the user preferences as a function of user preferences of at least one user of the plurality of users that directly or indirectly receives recommendations from the recommendation client associated with the first user.