Patent ID: 7643807

Claim:
A method of classifying content on at least some of the channels of a multi-channel broadcast a media system, the method comprising: identifying preferred and disfavored content of a user; populating a database with information regarding the preferred and disfavored content of the user; receiving at a first receiver first content from a first channel during a first time period; receiving information regarding the content available on a plurality of additional channels of the multi-channel broadcast media system during the first time period; automatically comparing the received information regarding the content available on the plurality of additional channels to the information in the database to identify one of the plurality of additional channels as having preferred content of the user; comparing the first content with the information in the database to identify the first content as disfavored content; and automatically tuning the first receiver to the identified channel at least partly in response to identifying the first content as disfavored content.