Patent ID: 8819716
Filing Date: 2014-08-26
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. An apparatus for recommending related information of TV program contents and web contents, the apparatus comprising: a user profile unit configured to produce and to update a user profile of a smart TV; a first information collection unit configured to collect first information that is the TV program contents metadata from a smart TV network; a second information collection unit configured to collect second information that is the web contents information from an Internet; an inter-content association inference unit configured to determine a degree of an association between the first information and the second information by using a feature vector; an integrated content database configured to store the related information according to the determined relationship between the first information and the second information; and an associated web content recommendation unit configured to provide a recommendation of the web content having related to a user according to a predetermined criterion using a record of TV program content while watching the smart TV.