CA2337463A1 - Television system with aided user program searching - Google Patents

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CA2337463A1
CA2337463A1 CA002337463A CA2337463A CA2337463A1 CA 2337463 A1 CA2337463 A1 CA 2337463A1 CA 002337463 A CA002337463 A CA 002337463A CA 2337463 A CA2337463 A CA 2337463A CA 2337463 A1 CA2337463 A1 CA 2337463A1
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A system having an adaptive browse feature and an adaptive flip feature is provided. The adaptive browse and flip features may be selected to receive program viewing suggestions. The system may pro-vide a suggestion by displaying an adaptive browse region or adaptative flip region including a program suggestion. The system identifies programs to sug-gest based on a user's viewing activity. The system uses different algorithms that are user-selectable and user-adjustable to identify program suggestions. The system may query a program guide database to build a list of programs having attributes similar to the at-tributes of the current program or the last viewed program. The system may use an adaptive learning algorithm such as a neural network. The neural net-work maybe trained by the program guide by moni-toring user-viewing activity. Each algorithm may be personalized for multiple users.
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