METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR EVALUATING TELEVISION PROGRAM RECOMMENDERS

Patent №

US 6,766,525

Granted

2004-07-20

Filed 2000

Owner

PHILIPS ELECTRONICS NORTH AMERICA CORP.

+1 more

Lab

AI components

5

ml · kr · planning · evo · hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

09500306

A method and apparatus are disclosed for validating recommendations generated by a television program recommender using programmed viewing agents. A viewing agent is programmed with a set of rules that characterize the viewing preferences of a modeled viewer. During a training phase, the programmed rules of a viewing agent are applied to a set of training programs to obtain an agent viewing history. The method and apparatus estimates the required size of the viewing history to provide a given level of accuracy. The viewing agents can be programmed to introduce one or more random shows into the viewing history, or to change the preferences of the viewing agent over time, thereby allowing the television program recommender validator to evaluate how the program recommender processes such non-stationaries.

Machine learningKnowledge representationPlanningEvolutionary computationAI hardwareH04N 21/4667H04N 7/163H04N 21/4532H04N 21/454H04N 21/466H04N 21/4668H04N 21/4755

AI classification

Planning1.00
Machine learning1.00
Knowledge representation1.00
Evolutionary computation0.63
AI hardware0.60
Vision0.23
Natural language0.20
Speech0.00

Ownership

PHILIPS ELECTRONICS NORTH AMERICA CORP.

assignment · 105910428

KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS N.V.

assignment · 154530673

Assignors

LEE, KWOK PUN, SCHAFFER, J. DAVID

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