Method and system for profiling itv users and for providing selective content delivery
CA 2449749 A1 · Owner: Rascon, Arthur P. · Inventors: Hosea, Devin F.; Oddo, Anthony Scott; Rascon, Arthur P.
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A method for profiling an iTV user. The method comprises the iTV/ISP server (15) transmitting user-requested content information and receiving and , gathering the content information from iTV interactions at the client machines (10), correlating content-associated profile information from a rating service with the user-requested content information received through the communication channel (5), and developing a profile of the user based on the contentassociated profile information correlated with the user-requested content information.
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