Patent ID: 8607273
Filing Date: 2013-12-10
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A process for content selection by recommendation comprising: at a content accumulator, receiving content recommendation values from at least first and second content recommendation providers and storing the content recommendation values at a network accessible storage location; where at least the second content recommendation provider comprises a social media web site that provides a recommendation value that use a different rating scale than a rating scale used by the first content recommendation site; at an Internet Protocol television device: at the content accumulator, retrieving the content recommendation values from the storage location and sending the content recommendation values to the Internet Protocol television device; displaying the content recommendation values on a single visual content recommendation display screen of the Internet Protocol television device, where a first set of content recommendation values from the first content recommendation provider is more prominent than the second set of content recommendation values for the same content on the single visual display; and selecting the content recommendation value replaces the content recommendation display screen with the content associated with the selected content recommendation value.