Patent ID: 7627824
Filing Date: 2009-12-01
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A video server that provides personalized entertainment on a video terminal, comprising: means for generating a plurality of viewer preference (VP) profiles indicating content preferred by a plurality of corresponding viewers, wherein each VP profile is generated based on statistical observation of viewing habits of one of the plurality of corresponding viewers; means for constructing a plurality of personalized content sequences for a respective viewer by selecting a plurality of eligible video content items from a plurality of video content items for each of said personalized content sequences using said VP profile corresponding to said respective viewer and at least one other VP profile corresponding to at least one viewer deemed to have viewing preferences most similar to said respective viewer; a control unit that controls ordering of said plurality of eligible video content items within each of said personalized content sequences, controls selection of one of said personalized content sequences as a selected sequence, and controls transfer of a selected video content item from the selected sequence to said video terminal; a user interface that transmits video content selection commands from said video terminal to said video server, transmits said selected video content item from said video server to said video terminal, and transmits video content feedback messages to said video server; an interface to a video content storage that stores said plurality of video content items; and a content descriptor file associated with each video content item that describes said video content item.