http://peertopatent.org/patent/582/prior_art/list The notification system identifies media content based on personal preferences of individual users and provides notification of identified media content to the users. In one embodiment, the system includes a number of user nodes that communicate with a registration site and a notification site via the interne. The notification site includes a media content database and a processor running contents election logic. The processor accesses the media content database in order to identify content that may be of interest to particular users of the user nodes. In this regard, content for a particular user may be identified by matching interest information obtained from the registration site with the content information of the media content database. en-us Media content notification via communications network Patent/Application #: 20100293579<br/>Description: FIELD OF THE INVENTION Embodiments of the invention generally relate to digital video recorders (DVRs). Embodiments of the invention relate more specifically to techniques for correlating media metadata gathered from diverse sources. Wed, 28 Sep 2011 09:34:26 -0700 http://peertopatent.org/prior_art/1319/detail