Title rating and improvement process and system

• US 10,176,256 B1
• Filed: 12/22/2014
• Issued: 01/08/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 12/23/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: BroadbandTV, Corp. (BBTV Holdings, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: BroadbandTV, Corp. (BBTV Holdings, Inc.)
• Inventors: Fatourechi, Mehrdad, Coria Mendoza, Lino E., Rafati, Shahrzad
• Primary Examiner(s): Le, Miranda
• Application Number:
  US14/579,145
• Time in Patent Office: 1,478 Days
• Field of Search: 707710
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/3325 Reformulation based on results of preceding query
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/7867 using information manually generated, e.g. tags, keywords, comments, title and artist information, manually generated time, location and usage information, user ratings
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/151 Transformation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/253 Grammatical analysis; Style critique
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/284 Lexical analysis, e.g. tokenisation or collocates
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/44 Statistical methods, e.g. probability models

Abstract

In accordance with one embodiment, a method can be implemented that comprises receiving as an input a title of a video from a video sharing web site; parsing the title of the video into one or more n-grams; computing with a computer a title-searchability-score by utilizing the one or more n-grams.

Claims

1. A method for evaluating a title in view of popular search topics to quantify searchability of the title, the method comprising:

compiling, using a computer, a list of popular n-grams that includes n-grams that have been previously searched in one or more databases with a frequency satisfying a predefined threshold;

receiving as an input the title of a video provided by a user to a video sharing web site;

parsing the title of the video into one or more title n-grams;

modifying the title n-grams to remove one or more special characters;

comparing the title n-grams to a list of popular n-grams to identify a group of popular title n-grams from the title, each n-gram in the group of popular title n-grams matching a corresponding one of the n-grams on the list of popular n-grams;

computing a search engine optimization metric by utilizing the title and the group of popular title n-grams;

computing a title-searchability-score for the title based on the computed search engine optimization metric and an n-gram ratio, the n-gram ratio being equal to a number of n-grams in the group of popular title n-grams, for n greater than 1, divided by a number of 1-grams in the group of popular title n-grams; and

presenting information to a user indicating a determined searchability for the title, the information based on the title-searchability-score; and

outputting one or more suggestions for making the title more searchable when the title-searchability score satisfies a condition.

2. The method of claim 1 and further comprising:

outputting the title-searchability-score to a user.

3. The method of claim 1 and further comprising:

detecting one or more languages used in the title.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein parsing the title of the video comprises:

dividing the title into sentences.

5. The method of claim 4 wherein parsing the title of the video further comprises:

parsing each sentence into one or more n-grams.

6. The method of claim 1 wherein the condition is satisfied when the title-searchability score exceeds a defined threshold.

7. The method of claim 1 wherein modifying the title n-grams further comprises:

modifying a subset of the title n-grams determined to be unpopular n-grams by changing one or more characters to lowercase and removing special characters from the unpopular n-grams.

8. The method of claim 1 and further comprising:

outputting both a title-searchability-score and a written assessment of searchability of the title.

9. The method of claim 1 and further comprising:

outputting one or more suggested replacement words in the title.

10. The method of claim 1 and further comprising:

outputting one or more suggested replacement words in the title wherein the replacement words are based on relevant documents from text-based sources.

11. An apparatus comprising:

a user interface to receive as an input a title of a video provided by a user to a video sharing web site;

one or more processors to;

parse the title of the video into one or more title n-grams;

compile a list of popular n-grams, the list of popular n-grams including n-grams that have been previously searched in one or more databases with a frequency satisfying a predefined threshold;

modify the title n-grams to remove one or more special characters;

compare the title n-grams to a list of popular n-grams to identify a group of popular title n-grams from the title, each n-gram in the group of popular title n-grams matching a corresponding one of the n-grams on the list of popular n-grams;

compute a search engine optimization metric by utilizing the title and the group of popular title n-grams; and

compute a title-searchability-score for the title based on the computed search engine optimization metric and an n-gram ratio, the n-gram ratio being equal to a number of n-grams in the group of popular title n-grams, for n greater than 1, divided by a number of 1-grams in the group of popular title n-grams; and

a graphical user interface to;

present information to a user indicating a determined searchability for the title, the information based on the title-searchability-score; and

output one or more suggestions for making the title more searchable when the title-searchability score satisfies a condition.

12. The apparatus of claim 11 and further comprising:

an output module to output the title-searchability-score to a user.

13. The apparatus of claim 11 and further comprising:

a language detector to detect one or more languages used in the title.

14. The apparatus of claim 11 wherein the parser to parse the title of the video comprises:

a sentence divider to divide the title into sentences.

15. The apparatus of claim 14 wherein the parser to parse the title of the video further comprises:

an n-gram detector to parse each sentence into one or more n-grams.

16. The apparatus of claim 11 wherein the condition is satisfied when the title-searchability score exceeds a defined threshold.

17. The apparatus of claim 11 wherein the n-gram modifier modifies n-grams determined to be unpopular n-grams by changing one or more characters to lowercase and removing special characters from the unpopular n-grams.

18. The apparatus of claim 11 and further comprising:

an output module to output both a title-searchability-score and a written assessment of searchability of the title.

19. The apparatus of claim 11 and further comprising:

an output module to output one or more suggested replacement words in the title.

20. The apparatus of claim 11 and further comprising:

an output module to output one or more suggested replacement words in the title wherein the replacement words are based on relevant documents from text-based sources.

21. One or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media encoding computer-executable instructions for executing on a computer system a computer process for evaluating a title of a video in view of popular search topics to quantify searchability of the title, the computer process comprising:

compiling, using a computer, a list of popular n-grams that includes n-grams that have been previously searched in one or more databases with a frequency satisfying a predefined threshold;

receiving as an input the title of a video provided by a user to a video sharing web site;

parsing the title of the video into one or more title n-grams;

modifying the title n-grams to remove one or more special characters;

comparing the title n-grams to a list of popular n-grams to identify a group of popular title n-grams from the title, each n-gram in the group of popular title n-grams matching a corresponding one the n-grams on the list of popular n-grams;

computing a search engine optimization metric by utilizing the title and the group of popular title n-grams;

computing a title-searchability-score for the title based on the computed search engine optimization metric and an n-gram ratio, the n-gram ratio being equal to a number of n-grams in the group of popular title n-grams, for n greater than 1, divided by a number of 1-grams in the group of popular title n-grams; and

presenting information to a user indicating a determined searchability for the title, the information based on the title-searchability-score; and

outputting one or more suggestions for making the title more searchable when the title-searchability score satisfies a condition.

22. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media as claimed in claim 21 wherein the computer process further comprises:

outputting the title-searchability-score to a user.