Patent ID: 8660409
Filing Date: 2014-02-25
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A predictive personal video recorder (PVR) comprising: a tuner configured to allow viewing of a currently-selected digital video channel upon a display, wherein said currently-selected digital video channel is chosen from a plurality of digital video channels received by a predictive PVR; a buffer configured to store video data of the currently-selected digital video channel received by the tuner, wherein said stored video data allows time-shifted viewing of the currently-selected digital video channel; a data store, which is a non-transitory storage medium, comprising a plurality of stored predictive data elements, wherein the predictive data elements comprise user preferences, wherein the user preferences include user exclusions of video programming language exclusions and channel exclusions; a predictive factor calculator for calculating a predictive factor using the predictive data elements of the data store, wherein the predictive factor is a numeric value that quantifies a viewing likelihood for a digital video channel by a user of the predictive PVR, wherein the predictive value calculator calculates predictive factors for a plurality of candidate digital video channels, wherein the candidate digital video channels are ordered by the calculated predictive factors according to value, wherein the candidate digital video channel with the highest calculated predictive factor is determined to be a predicted digital video channel, wherein channels excluded per one of the user exclusions are not eligible to be the predicted digital video channel by nature of the user exclusions specified by the stored user preferences; a predictive tuner configured to capture video data for the predicted digital video channel; and a predictive buffer configured to store the captured video data for the predicted digital video channel received by the predictive tuner to allow time-shifted viewing of said predicted digital video channel.