ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,935, issued on May 13, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).
"Behavior modeling based on content genre" was invented by Bernard Burg (Menlo Park, Calif.), Ryan March (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Ranjit Padmanabhan (Saratoga, Calif.) and Tyler Kareeson (Santa Clara, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are systems and methods for behavioral modeling based on content genre and utilizing results for content recommendation and other network handling and storage of the content. Viewing events with respect to a content item are aggregated. An affinity is calculated based on the viewing events. Additional viewi...