Patent ID: 7131134
Filing Date: 2006-10-31
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. An apparatus for recommending a schedule of events to a user, wherein an event is a discrete item of media presentation, said schedule starting at a start time and ending at an end time, comprising: at least one fuzzy-now recommendation system for generating a fuzzy-now recommendation function for each event in a plurality of event schedules, each of said event schedules being at least one of an event and a partial event presented on a channel from the start time to the end time; a fuzzy-now recommendation-time value generator for dividing each generated fuzzy-now recommendation function into time slices, and for calculating a cumulative fuzzy-now recommendation-time value for each time slice, said fuzzy-now recommendation value being comprised of units of recommendation-time; and a selector for selecting a series of at least one of an event and a partial event to comprise a schedule of recommended events, said selecting being based upon the calculated fuzzy-now recommendation-time values including a highest ratio of time slices above a given threshold to time slices below the given threshold for each event.