Patent ID: 8434105

Claim:
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: comparing the video description of the given channel against the description term of a given description-interest pair in the interest dictionary; comparing the viewer interest against the interest term of the given description-interest pair; and in response to determining that the video description of the given channel matches the description term of the given description-interest pair and that the viewer interest matches the interest term of the given description-interest pair, determining that the interest level for the given channel matches the viewer interest; and selecting a channel to display on the television by the television controller based on the determined interest level of the selected channel by comparing a determined interest level of each of said plurality of channels, wherein the selected channel is a channel with the highest interest level; and displaying the selected channel on the television.