WO2008042280A3 - Systems and methods for automatically identifying a user profile - Google Patents

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WO2008042280A3
WO2008042280A3 PCT/US2007/020980 US2007020980W WO2008042280A3 WO 2008042280 A3 WO2008042280 A3 WO 2008042280A3 US 2007020980 W US2007020980 W US 2007020980W WO 2008042280 A3 WO2008042280 A3 WO 2008042280A3
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media guidance
guidance application
interactive media
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Andrew Ferrone
Steve Shannon
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United Video Properties Inc
Andrew Ferrone
Steve Shannon
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Abstract

Systems and methods for automatically recognizing a user of an interactive media guidance application are provided. The interactive media guidance application may monitor a plurality of users' interactions with the interactive media guidance application, and determine, from the interactions, user profiles. For example, the interactive media guidance application may determine that a number of interactions (e.g., a number of viewed programs) satisfy a relevancy rule, and associate the interactions with the same user profile. The interactive media guidance application may identify the parts of the day when each user uses the interactive media guidance application, and associate the corresponding user profiles with the current day part. The interactive media guidance application may further identify the user that is associated with each user profile by prompting a user to identify himself during the day part that is associated with a particular user profile.
PCT/US2007/020980 2006-09-29 2007-09-27 Systems and methods for automatically identifying a user profile WO2008042280A2 (en)

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US84860006P 2006-09-29 2006-09-29
US60/848,600 2006-09-29
US11/600,954 US20080092156A1 (en) 2006-09-29 2006-11-15 Systems and methods for automatically identifying a user profile
US11/600,936 2006-11-15
US11/600,954 2006-11-15
US11/600,936 US20080092155A1 (en) 2006-09-29 2006-11-15 Systems and methods for automatically identifying a user profile

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