Axel Springer Digital TV Guide GmbH Patent applications |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20140223488 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AUTOMATIC GENERATION OF RECOMMENDATIONS - A recommender engine for recommending content items to a user comprises a profile generation unit having a pre-profile input unit, which is configured to receive pre-profile data comprising pre-profile text data suitable for identifying entities of interest to a given user, and having a pre-profile analysis unit, the entities of interest and to generate an initial user profile data set for the given user from the extracted identification data; a query generation unit, to generate at least two queries semantically different from each other to be directed to at least one content repository; a content retrieval unit, to issue the generated queries to the content repository and to receive in response to the queries, content-related response data comprising respective hit lists and an interleaver unit to generate from the different hit lists a single recommendation list. | 08-07-2014 |
20140214839 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING A SORTED LIST OF ITEMS - An electronic device and method for automatic generation of a sorted list of items related to a seed item comprises a relatedness determinator to compare the seed item with a plurality of further items and to determine a relatedness value for each further item with respect to the seed item. The device also has a clustering engine to cluster the further items by determining a relative relatedness between (among) the further items. Each further item is assigned to one cluster. The device also has a list generator to generate a sorted result list by sorting the further items according to both, their relatedness value and their belonging (or membership) to a cluster in that once an item is added to the sorted list, the relatedness value depending ranking of the further items in that cluster is at least momentary lowered so as to promote adding items of further clusters. | 07-31-2014 |
20140173436 | EASY 2D NAVIGATION OF VIDEO DATABASE - The present invention relates to a method of operating an apparatus for displaying content items on a display, a corresponding computer program for operating an apparatus and to an apparatus ( | 06-19-2014 |
20140136621 | AUTOMATIC DETERMINATION OF GENRE-SPECIFIC RELEVANCE OF RECOMMENDATIONS IN A SOCIAL NETWORK - The present invention relates to an operating method of operating a recommender system, a filtering apparatus ( | 05-15-2014 |
20140115082 | RECOMMENDER SYSTEM AND METHOD OF OPERATING SAME - The present invention relates to a method of operating a recommender system arranged for being coupled to a computer implemented social network ( | 04-24-2014 |
20140020027 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MANAGING A PERSONAL CHANNEL - The present invention relates to an apparatus ( | 01-16-2014 |
20130268975 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MANAGING A PERSONAL CHANNEL - The invention relates to an apparatus ( | 10-10-2013 |
20130204740 | RECOMMENDER SYSTEM FOR STIMULATING A USER TO RECOMMEND AN ITEM TO A CONTACT OF THE USER - The present invention is related to a recommender system ( | 08-08-2013 |
20130151340 | COORDINATED AUTOMATIC AD PLACEMENT FOR PERSONAL CONTENT CHANNELS - The present invention relates to an apparatus, a method and a computer program product for automatically inserting advertisements into a media stream, wherein subscription information which specifies categories of advertisements to be scheduled for insertion is stored and a category of a target advertisement is determined. Based on the result of the determination those advertisements of a stored list of scheduled advertisements, which according to their subscription information are subscribed to the determined category, are triggered and subjected to a predetermined modification processing selected based on the result of the determination. | 06-13-2013 |
20130104168 | RECOMMENDER SYSTEM WITH CONSISTENT PROFILE APPLICATION - The present invention relates to an apparatus, a method and a computer program product for controlling distribution and processing of content-related metadata of different content sources ( | 04-25-2013 |
20130097477 | CONTENT TRANSFORMATION FOR LEAN-BACK ENTERTAINMENT - The present invention relates to an apparatus, a method and a computer program product for adapting a document with actively selectable content, e.g., web-based content, for consumption in a lean-back mode. The document is rendered in a way that it can be optimally consumed in the lean-back mode. The multimedia content of the document (images, text, etc.) is transformed into a continuous information flow (e.g. video) that can be rendered as if it were a television channel, for example. | 04-18-2013 |
20130097153 | Profile Based Content Retrieval for Recommender Systems - The present invention relates to an apparatus, a method and a computer program product for controlling a recommender system, wherein a user profile normally used by a recommender to predict user ratings is employed to generate a targeted query for the remote database yielding a set of results that can be scored by the recommender and provided as suggestions to the user. | 04-18-2013 |
20120316934 | ADAPTIVE PLACEMENT OF AUXILIARY MEDIA IN RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS - The present invention relates to an apparatus, method, and computer program product for controlling a recommender system, wherein placement of auxiliary media in relation to at least one content item presented to a user is controlled. A first scheduler ( | 12-13-2012 |
20110320482 | CONTEXT-BASED RECOMMENDER SYSTEM - The present invention relates to a recommender system and method comprising a first extractor (S | 12-29-2011 |
20110251988 | ADAPTIVE IMPLICIT LEARNING FOR RECOMMENDER SYSTEM - The present invention relates to an apparatus, method, and computer program product for controlling a recommender system, wherein user actions on content items are associated to explicit ratings on these content items and translated into a UI features profile, which is subsequently used by a recommender. This recommender rates new items based on user actions on this item and thus creates an implicitly learned rating history. This learning makes the implicit rating or scoring personalized. It can be combined in several ways with an explicitly learned rating history to improve overall performance and/or to mitigate the burden for the user, by having him/her rate less items explicitly. | 10-13-2011 |
20110170838 | METHOD FOR DISTRIBUTING SECOND MULTI-MEDIA CONTENT ITEMS IN A LIST OF FIRST MULTI-MEDIA CONTENT ITEMS - A method of distributing second multi-media content items into a list having at least one first multi-media content item is provided. The list of the first multi-media content item is to be reproduced on a personal TV system. A playlist of first multi-media content items is selected from a plurality of first multi-media content items available on different TV channels. Potential second multi-media content items from a plurality of available second multi-media content items are determined by matching information from the first and second multi-media content items. At least one of the determined second multi-media content items are selected based on a user profile, metadata of the first and second multi-media content items and/or a distribution scheme for distributing the second multi-media content items into the playlist of the first multi-media content items. | 07-14-2011 |