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Recommending media content based on quality of service at a location

  • US 10,110,959 B2
  • Filed: 05/18/2016
  • Issued: 10/23/2018
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/18/2016
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for providing content recommendations based on media content likely to be available to a user at a likely future location of the user, based on trajectories of the user, the method comprising:

  • determining, using control circuitry, that a user has stopped consuming a first media asset at a first location, wherein determining that the user has stopped consuming the first media asset at the first location comprises accessing a criteria from memory and applying the criteria to a detected context of a first device at the first location or a detected context of the user;

    in response to determining that the user has stopped consuming the first media asset at the first location,determining, using the control circuitry, a trajectory of the user, wherein the trajectory of the user comprises a direction of movement of the user;

    identifying, using the control circuitry, a second location where the user will consume media content based on the trajectory, wherein the second location is a future location of the user;

    searching, using the control circuitry, a database of quality of service levels at various locations to determine a quality of service available at the second location, wherein searching the database comprises;

    transmitting a query to the database containing an indication of the second location; and

    receiving, in response to the query, a data structure indicating the quality of service available at the second location;

    determining, using the control circuitry, a characteristic of the first media asset;

    determining that a second media asset (1) is accessible at the second location and (2) corresponds to the characteristic of the first media asset consumed at the first location;

    retrieving, from a data structure that represents the second media asset, a required quality of service level for the second media asset;

    comparing the required quality of service level for the second media asset with the quality of service available at the second location; and

    recommending, using the control circuitry, the second media asset, in response to determining that the required quality of service level of the second media asset is met by the quality of service available at the second location.

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