US Patent Issued to Sirius XM Radio on Jan. 13 for "Method and apparatus for providing enhanced electronic program guide with personalized selection of broadcast content using affinities data and user preferences" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,484, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Sirius XM Radio Inc. (New York).

"Method and apparatus for providing enhanced electronic program guide with personalized selection of broadcast content using affinities data and user preferences" was invented by Stuart A Cox (Boca Raton, Fla.) and Michael A. Barton (Coral Springs, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses and methods are provided to inform a user of a broadcast stream, which has multiple, concurrently received channels of program content, about recommendations of a subset of the content currently playing across the available channels or to be played within a selected futu...