Identifying and/or recommending relevant media content

• US 10,242,006 B2
• Filed: 10/14/2016
• Issued: 03/26/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 12/18/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Inventors: Juang, Philo, Gaw, Shirley Connie, Crouzen, Pepijn, Dasilva, Tim, de Boursetty, Benoit
• Primary Examiner(s): Cao, Phuong Thao
• Application Number:
  US15/293,721
• Publication Number:
  US 20170031907A1
• Time in Patent Office: 893 Days
• Field of Search: 707738
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/24578 using ranking
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/285 Clustering or classification
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/41 Indexing; Data structures therefor; Storage structures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/435 Filtering based on additional data, e.g. user or group profiles
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation

Abstract

A system for identifying and/or recommending relevant media content is provided. The system includes a relevancy component, a classification component and a notification component. The relevancy component determines a topic or an event related to media content and associates the media content with a group of media content based on the topic or the event. The classification component assigns a classifier value to the media content based on data associated with the media content and the group of media content. The notification component generates a notification message associated with the media content for a user based on the classifier value and a temporal-based relevancy value generated as a function of user context.

Claims

1. A system, comprising:

a memory storing computer executable instructions; and

a processor configured to execute the computer executable instructions stored in the memory to implement operations comprising;

determining that a media content item is related to a topic;

associating the media content item with a group of media content items associated with the topic;

in response to determining that a number of media content items in the group of media content items meets a threshold number of media content items, assigning a classifier value corresponding to an interest level classification to the media content item; and

generating a notification message associated with the media content item for a user account based on the classifier value and contextual information associated with the user account.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the processor is further configured to:

determine that a media content item is related to an event;

associate the media content item with a group of media content items associated with the event; and

determine a geographic region and a period of time associated with the event, wherein the threshold number of media content items is determined based on the geographic region associated with the event.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the contextual information associated with the user account includes a period of time associated with the event and wherein the notification message is generated based on the period of time relative to a current time.

4. The system of claim 3, wherein the processor is further configured to:

determine a second threshold number of media content items, wherein the second threshold number is greater than the threshold number;

in response to determining that the number of media content items is above the second threshold number, assign a second classifier value to the media content item, wherein the second classifier value is associated with a second interest level classification;

determine that a second user account is not associated with the geographic region associated with the event; and

in response to determining that the second user account is not associated with the geographic region associated with the event, generate a second notification message associated with the media content item for the second user account based on the second classifier value and the period of time relative to the current time.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein determining that the user account is associated with a geographic region is based on media content consumption data associated with the user account.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the processor is further configured to transmit the notification to one or more devices associated with the user account.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein assigning the classifier value to the media content item is further based on a distribution of the media content item to one or more network data stores within a certain time interval.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein assigning the classifier value to the media content item is further based on a rate of consumption of the media content item.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein the notification message associated with the media content item is based on a user profile corresponding to the user account of a user.

10. A method, comprising:

determining, using a system that includes a hardware processor, that a media content item is related to a topic;

associating the media content item with a group of media content items associated with the topic;

in response to determining that a number of media content items in the group of media content items meets a threshold number of media content items, assigning a classifier value corresponding to an interest level classification to the media content item; and

generating a notification message associated with the media content item for a user account based on the classifier value and contextual information associated with the user account.

11. The method of claim 10, further comprising:

determining that a media content item is related to an event;

associating the media content item with a group of media content items associated with the event; and

determining a geographic region and a period of time associated with the event, wherein the threshold number of media content items is determined based on the geographic region associated with the event.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the contextual information associated with the user account includes a period of time associated with the event and wherein the notification message is generated based on the period of time relative to a current time.

13. The method of claim 12, further comprising:

determining a second threshold number of media content items, wherein the second threshold number is greater than the threshold number;

in response to determining that the number of media content items is above the second threshold number, assigning a second classifier value to the media content item, wherein the second classifier value is associated with a second interest level classification;

determining that a second user account is not associated with the geographic region associated with the event; and

in response to determining that the second user account is not associated with the geographic region associated with the event, generating a second notification message associated with the media content item for the second user account based on the second classifier value and the period of time relative to the current time.

14. The method of claim 10, wherein determining that the user account is associated with a geographic region is based on media content consumption data associated with the user account.

15. The method of claim 10, further comprising transmitting the notification to one or more devices associated with the user account.

16. The method of claim 10, wherein assigning the classifier value to the media content item is further based on a distribution of the media content item to one or more network data stores within a certain time interval.

17. The method of claim 10, wherein assigning the classifier value to the media content item is further based on a rate of consumption of the media content item.

18. The method of claim 10, wherein the notification message associated with the media content item is based on a user profile corresponding to the user account of a user.

19. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium comprising computer-executable instructions, that in response to execution, cause a computing system to perform operations, comprising:

determining that a media content item is related to a topic;

associating the media content item with a group of media content items associated with the topic;

in response to determining that a number of media content items in the group of media content items meets a threshold number of media content items, assigning a classifier value corresponding to an interest level classification to the media content item; and

generating a notification message associated with the media content item for a user account based on the classifier value and contextual information associated with the user account.