System to track engagement of media items

• US 10,165,402 B1
• Filed: 07/13/2018
• Issued: 12/25/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 06/28/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Snap, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Snap, Inc.
• Inventors: Davis, Brent, Sellis, Peter, Azmoodeh, Farnaz, Ahmed, Samir, Cohen, Douglas
• Primary Examiner(s): Khan, Suhail
• Application Number:
  US16/035,209
• Time in Patent Office: 165 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/24578 using ranking
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/2477 Temporal data queries
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/248 Presentation of query results
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/29 Geographical information databases
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/48 Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9537 Spatial or temporal dependent retrieval, e.g. spatiotemporal queries
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0261 based on user location
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/52 for supporting social networking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/021 Services related to particular areas, e.g. point of interest [POI] services, venue services or geofences
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/023 using mutual or relative location information between multiple location based services [LBS] targets or of distance thresholds

Abstract

An engagement tracking system monitors user interactions with media items to calculate an engagement score of the media item. The engagement tracking system may be or include a group of one or more server machines configured to detect an exposure of a client device to a media item maintained by the engagement tracking system. In response to detecting the exposure of the client device to the media item, the engagement tracking system tracks a location of the client device based on access requests to location based media items. The engagement tracking system may thereby monitor client devices exposed to the media item in order to calculate an engagement score of the media item.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

a memory; and

at least one hardware processor coupled to the memory and comprising an engagement tracking application that causes the system to perform operations comprising;

detecting an exposure of a plurality of client devices to media content, the media content associated with a physical location;

classifying the plurality of client devices as exposed client devices in response to the detecting the exposure of the plurality of client devices to the media content;

detecting the exposed client devices at the physical location during a period of time;

calculating a visitation of the physical location during the period of time in response to the detecting the exposed client devices at the physical location during the period of time;

retrieving a baseline visitation of the physical location during the period of time, the baseline visitation indicating a historical average visitation to the physical location during the period of time;

calculating a lift associated with the media content based on the visitation and the baseline visitation; and

generating a visualization of the lift.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the detecting the exposure of the plurality of client devices to the media content associated with the physical location includes:

delivering a message that includes the media content to the plurality of client devices.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the message is an ephemeral message.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the detecting the exposed client devices at the physical location during the period of time includes:

maintaining a geo-fence that encompasses the physical location, the geo-fence having a boundary; and

detecting the exposed client devices within the boundary of the geo-fence during the period of time.

5. The system of claim 4, wherein the media content is a first media content, the geo-fence is configured to provide access to a second media content, and wherein the detecting the exposed client devices within the boundary of the geo-fence includes:

receiving a request to access the second media content from each of the exposed client devices.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the visualization of the lift includes a chart that indicates a rate of change between the visitation and the baseline visitation.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the calculating the lift includes:

determining a ratio between the visitation to the physical location by the exposed client devices, and the historical average visitation to the physical location.

8. A method comprising:

detecting an exposure of a plurality of client devices to media content, the media content associated with a physical location;

classifying the plurality of client devices as exposed client devices in response to the detecting the exposure of the plurality of client devices to the media content;

detecting the exposed client devices at the physical location during a period of time;

calculating a visitation of the physical location during the period of time in response to the detecting the exposed client devices at the physical location during the period of time;

retrieving a baseline visitation of the physical location during the period of time, the baseline visitation indicating a historical average visitation to the physical location during the period of time;

calculating a lift associated with the media content based on the visitation and the baseline visitation; and

generating a visualization of the lift.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the detecting the exposure of the plurality of client devices to the media content associated with the physical location includes:

delivering a message that includes the media content to the plurality of client devices.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the message is an ephemeral message.

11. The method of claim 8, wherein the detecting the exposed client devices at the physical location during the period of time includes:

maintaining a geo-fence that encompasses the physical location, the geo-fence having a boundary; and

detecting the exposed client devices within the boundary of the geo-fence during the period of time.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the media content is a first media content, the geo-fence is configured to provide access to a second media content, and wherein the detecting the exposed client devices within the boundary of the geo-fence includes:

receiving a request to access the second media content from each of the exposed client devices.

13. The method of claim 8, wherein the visualization of the lift includes a chart that indicates a rate of change between the visitation and the baseline visitation.

14. The method of claim 8, wherein the calculating the lift includes:

determining a ratio between the visitation to the physical location by the exposed client devices, and the historical average visitation to the physical location.

15. A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium comprising instructions that, when executed by one or more processors of a machine, cause the machine to perform operations comprising:

detecting an exposure of a plurality of client devices to media content, the media content associated with a physical location;

classifying the plurality of client devices as exposed client devices in response to the detecting the exposure of the plurality of client devices to the media content;

detecting the exposed client devices at the physical location during a period of time;

calculating a visitation of the physical location during the period of time in response to the detecting the exposed client devices at the physical location during the period of time;

retrieving a baseline visitation of the physical location during the period of time, the baseline visitation indicating a historical average visitation to the physical location during the period of time;

calculating a lift associated with the media content based on the visitation and the baseline visitation; and

generating a visualization of the lift.

16. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 15, wherein the detecting the exposure of the plurality of client devices to the media content associated with the physical location includes:

delivering a message that includes the media content to the plurality of client devices.

17. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 16, wherein the message is an ephemeral message.

18. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 15, wherein the detecting the exposed client devices at the physical location during the period of time includes:

maintaining a geo-fence that encompasses the physical location, the geo-fence having a boundary; and

detecting the exposed client devices within the boundary of the geo-fence during the period of time.

19. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 18, wherein the media content is a first media content, the geo-fence is configured to provide access to a second media content, and wherein the detecting the exposed client devices within the boundary of the geo-fence includes:

receiving a request to access the second media content from each of the exposed client devices.

20. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 15, wherein the visualization of the lift includes a chart that indicates a rate of change between the visitation and the baseline visitation.