WO2012015565A3 - System and method for television search assistant - Google Patents

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WO2012015565A3
WO2012015565A3 PCT/US2011/042965 US2011042965W WO2012015565A3 WO 2012015565 A3 WO2012015565 A3 WO 2012015565A3 US 2011042965 W US2011042965 W US 2011042965W WO 2012015565 A3 WO2012015565 A3 WO 2012015565A3
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suggested search
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Jon Michael Herron
Vicki Reyzelman
Shiva Jaini
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Yahoo! Inc.
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Priority to EP11812921.2A priority patent/EP2599321A4/en
Priority to KR1020137005163A priority patent/KR101386832B1/en
Priority to CN201180035736.7A priority patent/CN103069825B/en
Publication of WO2012015565A2 publication Critical patent/WO2012015565A2/en
Publication of WO2012015565A3 publication Critical patent/WO2012015565A3/en
Priority to HK13109107.6A priority patent/HK1181940A1/en

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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G06—COMPUTING; CALCULATING OR COUNTING
    • G06F—ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
    • G06F16/00—Information retrieval; Database structures therefor; File system structures therefor
    • G06F16/30—Information retrieval; Database structures therefor; File system structures therefor of unstructured textual data
    • G06F16/33—Querying
    • G06F16/332—Query formulation
    • G06F16/3322—Query formulation using system suggestions
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04N—PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
    • H04N21/00—Selective content distribution, e.g. interactive television or video on demand [VOD]
    • H04N21/20—Servers specifically adapted for the distribution of content, e.g. VOD servers; Operations thereof
    • H04N21/25—Management operations performed by the server for facilitating the content distribution or administrating data related to end-users or client devices, e.g. end-user or client device authentication, learning user preferences for recommending movies
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G06—COMPUTING; CALCULATING OR COUNTING
    • G06F—ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
    • G06F16/00—Information retrieval; Database structures therefor; File system structures therefor
    • G06F16/70—Information retrieval; Database structures therefor; File system structures therefor of video data
    • G06F16/78—Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually
    • G06F16/7867—Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually using information manually generated, e.g. tags, keywords, comments, title and artist information, manually generated time, location and usage information, user ratings
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04N—PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
    • H04N21/00—Selective content distribution, e.g. interactive television or video on demand [VOD]
    • H04N21/40—Client devices specifically adapted for the reception of or interaction with content, e.g. set-top-box [STB]; Operations thereof
    • H04N21/43—Processing of content or additional data, e.g. demultiplexing additional data from a digital video stream; Elementary client operations, e.g. monitoring of home network or synchronising decoder's clock; Client middleware
    • H04N21/431—Generation of visual interfaces for content selection or interaction; Content or additional data rendering
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04N—PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
    • H04N21/00—Selective content distribution, e.g. interactive television or video on demand [VOD]
    • H04N21/40—Client devices specifically adapted for the reception of or interaction with content, e.g. set-top-box [STB]; Operations thereof
    • H04N21/45—Management operations performed by the client for facilitating the reception of or the interaction with the content or administrating data related to the end-user or to the client device itself, e.g. learning user preferences for recommending movies, resolving scheduling conflicts

Abstract

A television guide search query is received from a user. A plurality of suggested search terms are selected. Each of the plurality of suggested search terms is assigned to, and is ranked within, one of a plurality of categories. A number of suggested search terms to be returned to the user, nc, is determined for each of the plurality of categories, nc being equal to a ratio of the number of suggested search terms in the respective category to a total number of suggested search terms multiplied by a total number of displayed search terms. A result set is created by adding, for each of the plurality of categories, the top ranked nc suggested search terms to the result set. The result set is transmitted to the user. A selection of a search term is received from the user and is used to conduct a television guide search.
PCT/US2011/042965 2010-07-28 2011-07-05 System and method for television search assistant WO2012015565A2 (en)

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JP2013521793A JP5555809B2 (en) 2010-07-28 2011-07-05 System and method for television search assistant
EP11812921.2A EP2599321A4 (en) 2010-07-28 2011-07-05 System and method for television search assistant
KR1020137005163A KR101386832B1 (en) 2010-07-28 2011-07-05 System and method for television search assistant
CN201180035736.7A CN103069825B (en) 2010-07-28 2011-07-05 For the system and method for television search assistant
HK13109107.6A HK1181940A1 (en) 2010-07-28 2013-08-05 System and method for television search assistant

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