Patents by Inventor Adolph Proidl

Adolph Proidl has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Recommender system with consistent profile application
    Patent number: 9445152
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus, a method and a computer program product for controlling distribution and processing of content-related metadata of different content sources (101-1 to 101-n), wherein extracted metadata are transformed at from a received format of the extracted metadata into a predetermined common format used by a recommender engine. Additionally or alternatively, it is checked for an overlap between a detected classification parameter and at least one stored classification parameter, and non-overlapping metadata is enriched by adding at least one new classification parameter derived from an ontology-based processing of the non-overlapping metadata.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Assignee: Funke Digital TV Guide GmbH
    Inventors: Adolph Proidl, Thomas Dvorak
  • RECOMMENDER SYSTEM WITH CONSISTENT PROFILE APPLICATION
    Publication number: 20130104168
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus, a method and a computer program product for controlling distribution and processing of content-related metadata of different content sources (101-1 to 101-n), wherein extracted metadata are transformed at from a received format of the extracted metadata into a predetermined common format used by a recommender engine. Additionally or alternatively, it is checked for an overlap between a detected classification parameter and at least one stored classification parameter, and non-overlapping metadata is enriched by adding at least one new classification parameter derived from an ontology-based processing of the non-overlapping metadata.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2011
    Publication date: April 25, 2013
    Applicant: AXEL SPRINGER DIGITAL TV GUIDE GMBH
    Inventors: Adolph Proidl, Thomas Dvorak