Patents by Inventor Rodd B. Zurcher

Rodd B. Zurcher 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).

  • Publication number: 20080104624
    Abstract: A content recommendation system (100) to schedule a delivery of diverse content when a user is more receptive to the recommendation is provided. The system can include an outlier scheduling module (120) for scheduling an insertion of an outlier (224) in a recommended content based on a schedule model (125) and a trigger policy (127), an outlier selection module (140) for selecting the outlier from recommended content of an affinity model (145) based on a selection policy (147), and an outlier evaluation module (160) for monitoring a current user context and adjusting the selecting and the scheduling of the outlier in response to a user feedback of the outlier. The content recommendation system can expose the user to diverse content based on the user's current consumption pattern and current context.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2006
    Publication date: May 1, 2008
    Applicant: MOTOROLA, INC.
    Inventors: Nitya Narasimhan, Rohit Chaudhri, Venugopal Vesudevan, Rodd B. Zurcher