(19)
(11) EP 1 696 596 A3

(12) EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION

(88) Date of publication A3:
04.01.2012 Bulletin 2012/01

(43) Date of publication A2:
30.08.2006 Bulletin 2006/35

(21) Application number: 06076170.7

(22) Date of filing: 09.08.1996
(51) International Patent Classification (IPC): 
H04H 1/02(0000.00)
(84) Designated Contracting States:
BE CH DE DK ES FI FR GB IE IT LI NL PT SE

(30) Priority: 09.08.1995 EP 95305539

(62) Application number of the earlier application in accordance with Art. 76 EPC:
96927136.0 / 0843921

(71) Applicant: BRITISH TELECOMMUNICATIONS public limited company
London EC1A 7AJ (GB)

(72) Inventor:
  • Fisk, Donald
    Barnet, Hertfordshire, EN5 2LG (GB)

(74) Representative: Chabasseur, Vincent Robert et al
BT Group Legal Intellectual Property Department PP C5A, BT Centre 81 Newgate Street
London EC1A 7AJ
London EC1A 7AJ (GB)

   


(54) Method and means to estimate the relative ratings a user would give to a set of signals


(57) A multichoice programme transmission and reception system comprises a plurality of programme sources (1) coupled to a plurality of receivers (11) via a transmission path (3,5,7,9). Further outputs (12) of the sources (1) supply identifications of the programmes they are currently transmitting to a processor (15). The processor (15) includes a database of the ratings users of the receivers (11) have previously given to various programmes and the processor (15) uses these to estimate the order of preference which the user of each receiver (11) has for the programmes currently being transmitted. The processor (15) sends the corresponding order of the sources (1) to a data input (13) of the relevant receiver (11) and the receiver (11) responds by adjusting the mapping between specific actuations of its channel selector and the sources selected by these actuations to accord with the received order of sources, thereby facilitating selection by the user from a large number of available programmes.







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