METHOD FOR SETTING UP A PERSONAL CHANNEL IN MULTI-CHANNEL DIGITAL TELEVISION Russian patent published in 2007 - IPC H04N7/173 H04N5/445 

FIELD: engineering of client receiving systems for multi-channel digital television, in particular, automated system for setup and demonstration of personally preferred television broadcasts.

SUBSTANCE: in accordance to method, on basis of combined consideration of one or several available information sources - user preferences concerning viewing of television broadcasts, measurements of actual viewings of television broadcast, recommendations of broadcaster concerning the viewing of television broadcasts - a set of broadcasts is continuously created with denoting of numeric preference value for each broadcast, while for consideration of actual television broadcast viewings a viewing history database is created. On basis of data about preferred program schedule, digital television broadcast receiver under control of module for setting up personal channels continuously records most interesting broadcasts to hard disk. Personal channel is created - an automatically updated video buffer containing broadcasts of the last few hours which are most interesting for the user. At any time by means of friendly interface the user may choose a personal channel for viewing preferred broadcasts.

EFFECT: improved setup quality of preferred program schedule.

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