公开(公告)号：US09817826B2

公开(公告)日：2017-11-14

申请号：US13629167

申请日：2012-09-27

Applicant: Google Inc.

Inventor： Qiliang Chen ,  Weihua Tan

IPC: G06F3/00 ,  G06F13/00 ,  H04N5/445 ,  G06F17/30 ,  H04N7/16 ,  H04N21/482 ,  H04N21/81 ,  H04N21/258 ,  H04N21/2665 ,  H04N21/442 ,  H04N21/45 ,  H04N21/472 ,  H04N21/478 ,  H04N21/658 ,  H04N21/84

CPC classification number: G06F17/30023 ,  G06F17/301 ,  H04N7/162 ,  H04N21/25891 ,  H04N21/2665 ,  H04N21/44222 ,  H04N21/4532 ,  H04N21/47211 ,  H04N21/478 ,  H04N21/4826 ,  H04N21/6582 ,  H04N21/8126 ,  H04N21/84

Abstract: A system and method for searching and/or subscribing to media programs and notifying the user before a recommended program starts in response to a user's request for recommendation. A server receives a user request for a media program event recommendation from a client device. The user request comprises user media program recommendation setting. The server generates a search query in accordance with the user request. The server runs the search query against one or more databases to generate a recommendation containing one or more media program events. At least one of the databases consists of scheduled media program events. The server sends automatically, without user interaction, to one or more user-designated calendar programs, a calendar event corresponding to a recommended media program event. The calendar event includes a respective date, time and duration.