Patent ID: 9584868
Date: 2017-02-28
CPC Classifications: G06Q,H04N

Claim:
1. A method for dynamic adjustment of an individualized electronic program guide including individual TV viewer selection of video-on-demand program content for viewing on a subscriber TV system in order to enable convenient navigating by an individual viewer in a TV subscriber household that may have a plurality of viewers to video-on-demand program content offered on a video-on-demand platform of a digital TV services provider which is at least part of a digital TV services provider system, the method comprising: (a) maintaining, at the digital TV services provider system, a listing of at least category names for respective categories of video-on-demand programs to which a viewer can navigate using the electronic program guide for the video-on-demand platform; (b) establishing, at the digital TV services provider system, a viewer-individualized electronic program guide for each of a plurality of individual viewers in order to access video-on-demand programs and requiring each individual viewer to access a display of their respective viewer-individualized electronic program guide through a Log-In step by which the individual viewer currently operating the subscriber TV system can be uniquely identified in association with their respective viewer-individualized electronic program guide; (c) in each previous session while said individual viewer is logged onto their respective viewer-individualized electronic program guide in order to access video-on-demand programs on the subscriber TV system, tracking, at the digital TV services provider system, said individual viewer's selections of category names for video-on-demand programs listed in their respective viewer-individualized electronic program guide and saving the selection data as representing a past history of said individual viewer's preferences for the selected category names for video-on-demand programs; (d) determining, at the digital TV services provider system, an order of relevance of the category names for said individual viewer selection of video-on-demand programs from their respective viewer-individualized electronic program guide based at least in part on said viewer's past history of selection data representing said individual viewer's preferences for selection of video-on-demand programs from corresponding category names on their respective viewer-individualized electronic program guide; and (e) at the start of each new session when said individual viewer logs onto their respective viewer-individualized electronic program guide in order to access video-on-demand programs on the subscriber TV system, reordering a current display listing of the category names for categories of video-on-demand programs preferred by each viewer on their viewer-individualized electronic program guide based at least in part on said determined order of relevance.