Disney patents TV channels that build custom schedules for friend groups
Disney has received a patent for a system that creates personalized TV channels for groups of people. It uses user profiles and other data to pick movies and shows that the group is likely to enjoy, then broadcasts them in a specific order. If you join the channel in the middle of a show, the system offers to restart it from the beginning.
In the filing’s own words
The present disclosure provides for systems and methods for customizing channel programming. The disclosed methods and systems utilize various data inputs, including affirmative user inputs, non-affirmative user characteristics, environmental data and/or temporal data to customize channel programming for a particular user or group of users. In a further aspect, the disclosed methods and systems provide for various social sharing of viewing experiences and channels by coordinating, broadcasting and/or sharing channels or viewing schedules with other users.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. A method comprising: selecting a plurality of movies, shows, or a combination thereof from a set of movies, shows, or a combination thereof available to a group of users, based on a user profile for each user in the group of users, to increase a probability that the group of users view the selected movies, shows, or combination thereof; populating a list of media assets, for the group of users, with the plurality of movies, shows, or the combination thereof arranged according to an order; providing, over a channel, the plurality of movies, shows, or the combination thereof, according to the order in the list of media assets; and presenting to a user of the group of users, when the user selects the channel that is currently providing a first movie or a first show of the plurality of movies, shows, or the combination thereof over the channel, an option to view the first movie or the first show from a beginning of the first movie or the first show.
Facts
- Company
- Disney (Disney Enterprises, Inc.)
- Official title
- Systems and methods for customizing channel programming
- Patent number
- US12732654B2
- Application number
- 18630464
- Filed
- Apr 9, 2024
- Granted
- Sep 8, 2026
- Inventors
- 2
- Claims
- 20
Classified under
H04N 21/2668 Electricity & electronicsG06Q 30/00 Physics & computingH04L 65/61 Electricity & electronicsH04N 21/251 Electricity & electronicsH04N 21/252 Electricity & electronicsH04N 21/25883 Electricity & electronicsMore from Disney in AI & software
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Summaries are simplified from the filing’s own abstract and first claim. A patent filing is not a product announcement.
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