Patents by Inventor Gutta Srinivas

Gutta Srinivas 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).

  • Automatic display of a recommended program onto PIP display
    Publication number: 20040003395
    Abstract: A method for automatically displaying an indication of a recommended program to a viewer. The method including: receiving program content; calculating a recommendation score for the received program content, the recommendation score indicating a likelihood that the viewer will approve of the received program content; and automatically displaying an indication of the received program content to the viewer if the recommendation score is above a predetermined threshold. Preferably, the indication is the display of the received program content, which is more preferably displayed on a picture-in-picture display and which can be switched to a main display, if desired, by the viewer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2002
    Publication date: January 1, 2004
    Inventors: Gutta Srinivas, Miroslav Trajkovic, Antonio Colmenarez,
  • Trend analysis of chunked view history/profiles view voting
    Publication number: 20030237095
    Abstract: A method for identifying a trend in a viewer history. The method including: generating a viewing history indicating a number of occurrences of at least one feature in content accessed by a viewer; dividing the viewing history into two or more viewing history portions each of which corresponds to a first predetermined time interval; dividing each of the two or more viewing history portions into two or more viewing history sub portions, wherein each of the two or more viewing history sub portions corresponds to a second predetermined time interval; estimating a trend for each of the two or more viewing history sub portions; and estimating a trend for each of the two or more viewing history portions based on the estimated trend for its two or more viewing history sub portions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2002
    Publication date: December 25, 2003
    Applicant: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
    Inventor: Gutta Srinivas
  • Method and apparatus for creating a personal commercials channel
    Publication number: 20030172378
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for creating a personalized channel capable of providing a selected commercial to display on a display device includes a viewer reference profile defined with respect to at least one attribute descriptive of a commercial is acquired and used to select a commercial from a plurality of commercials stored in a database. A virtual channel is allocated from available channels in a channel list having a plurality of program channels. The selected commercial is then associated with the virtual channel so as to allow display of the selected channel on the display device when the virtual channel is accessed by a user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2002
    Publication date: September 11, 2003
    Applicant: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
    Inventors: Agnihotri Lalitha, Gutta Srinivas, Nevenka Dimitrova