Patent ID: 8712218
Filing Date: 2014-04-29
Classification: G11B,H04N

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: accessing, by a central program controller located in a network, a group profile based on a plurality of viewer user profiles, each of the plurality of viewer user profiles associated with a video recording device, each of the plurality of viewer user profiles based on reviewing a history of previously scheduled program recordings and user specified keywords and phrases, each of the plurality of viewer user profiles generated using a weighting algorithm that places more weight on the history of previously scheduled program recordings than the user specified keywords and phrases, the history of previously scheduled program recordings comprising identifiers for movie titles, names of actors, names of directors, and names of producers; deriving metadata in real-time, by the central program controller, based on analysis of video and audio content of multimedia associated with a plurality of programs scheduled to be broadcast according to a predefined broadcast schedule, the multimedia comprising a preview and a trailer for a program of the plurality of programs scheduled to be broadcast according to a predefined broadcast schedule, the analysis comprising speech recognition, text analysis, and scene analysis; processing, by the central program controller, the metadata to select a particular program from the plurality of programs based on the group profile; and transmitting a program recommendation over the network for the particular program to a video recording device associated with a viewer user profile of the plurality of viewer user profiles associated with the group profile, wherein the deriving and processing are performed contemporaneously with a broadcasting of the particular program in a first geographic area, and wherein the transmitting the program recommendation is to a video recording device located in a second geographic area prior to a broadcasting of the particular program in the second geographic area.