Patent ID: 8434105
Filing Date: 2013-04-30
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A method for selecting a television channel for display on a television, the method comprising: receiving a viewer interest from a viewer of a plurality of channels; receiving a video selection script in a scripting language from a television network comprising the plurality of channels, the video selection script comprising an interest dictionary; processing the video selection script by a television controller, the television controller being operatively connected to the television and also to the television network comprising the plurality of channels, said processing includes the steps of: determining an interest level for each of the plurality of channels based on the video selection script by matching a video description of each of said plurality of channels against the viewer interest using said interest dictionary, wherein said interest dictionary includes a plurality of description-interest pairs comprising a description term and an interest term, wherein for each given channel of the plurality of channels, the determining of the interest level comprises: displaying the selected channel on the television.