Abstract: A method for generating a personal linear channel is described. The method includes receiving a request from a client device associated with a subscriber account to generate a personal linear channel, wherein the request includes an indicator of desired content for the personal linear channel. The method also includes selecting a plurality of related content items related to the indicator of desired content from one or more disparate content sources based on content that is associated with the indicator of desired content and based on consumption statistics of the subscriber account. The method further includes sending the plurality of related content items to the client device to cause the client device to display indicators of the plurality of related content items in a linear channel interface.

Abstract: A method in a server device for a source agnostic model is described. The method includes receiving from a client device associated with a subscriber account a selection of a content item. The method also includes selecting a content source that includes the content item in the selection of a content item, wherein the content source is selected based on a priority configuration of content sources in a configuration store, and wherein the priority configuration of content sources prioritizes content sources based at least on the location of the client device and the format that the selected content item stored at each content store is in.

Abstract: In an embodiment, an IPTV system provides social user quantifications by maintaining a user profile for a user that identifies a plurality of actions of the user with a respective plurality of video assets provided by the IPTV system. Each of the plurality of actions indicates that the user viewed, downloaded, recorded, scheduled to record, or rated the respective video asset. The IPTV system determines a social quantification value for the user based upon one or both of, the plurality of actions of the user within the IPTV system, and an additional plurality of actions by a plurality of other users of the IPTV system. The IPTV system causes an IPTV user interface to be presented to the user on a display of an electronic device that comprises a quantified self UI element that is based upon the social quantification value.