RECOMMENDER AND METHOD OF PROVIDING A RECOMMENDATION OF CONTENT, A COMPUTER PROGRAM ENABLING SUCH METHOD, AND A PRIVATE VIDEO RECORDER COMPRISING SUCH RECOMMENDER

摘要

This invention relates to a system for recommending content items. User profile processor 113 may determine a user preference profile for a user 201 for different content categories. When a content item is received 203, Issues and meat processor 111 determines if the first content item correlates with the user preference profile, 205. If such an association responsiveness, content items are recommended to the user (206). If there is no associative correspondence, recommender processor 111 determines whether including at least a first characteristic having an associative correspondence to at least a second characteristic of the second content item having a high user preference is received content item, . If there is such an association responsiveness, the received content items are recommended to the user. Associative correspondence, the content item is a text description of the two can be determined to be present if they contain similar words. The invention allows an increased diversity in recommendations and is particularly suitable for a personal video recorder.