US Patent Issued to Roku on Feb. 4 for "Recommendation system with reduced bias based on a view history" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,219,190, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Roku Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Recommendation system with reduced bias based on a view history" was invented by Fei Xiao (San Jose, Calif.), Zidong Wang (San Jose, Calif.), Jose Sanchez (San Jose, Calif.), Abhishek Bambha (Burlimgame, Calif.) and Ronica Jethwa (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are mechanisms for selecting a recommended item for a current item being viewed by a user account based on a view history of the user account with reduced bias. For a current item being viewed by the user account represented by a current node of a co-watch graph, embodiments ca...