Data mining, influencing viewer selections, and user interfaces
First Claim
1. A method of operation in a content delivery platform including at least one processor-based component having at least one nontransitory processor-readable medium communicatively coupled to the processor and which stores at least one of processor-executable instructions or data, the method comprising:
- based at least in part on an actual path that a first end user has taken at least partially through a plurality of narrative segments that comprise a first narrative, generating a graphical dynamic path map that illustrates at least a portion of the actual path taken by the first end user through the plurality of narrative segments that comprise the first narrative; and
causing a presentation of at least a portion of the graphical dynamic path map to the end user, the graphical dynamic path map comprising indicia corresponding to respective ones of at least two of the plurality of narrative segments.
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Abstract
A narrative includes a number of serially connected narrative segments combined by a director or editor in a defined sequence to tell a story. A number of different narrative segments are available to the director or editor. A content delivery editor provides editors and directors with the ability to augment a narrative with additional narrative segments that provide alternate perspectives, views, or insights to the consumer. Such allows conveyance of the same narrative to the consumer using a number of plots or perspectives. Branch points in the narrative provide the consumer the opportunity to follow a storyline they find interesting. Each consumer follows a “personalized” path through the narrative. The director or editor may influence selection at branch points by providing priming stimuli prior to presentation of a prompt to select a branch and by optionally providing target stimuli during presentation of the prompt to select a branch.
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29 Claims
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1. A method of operation in a content delivery platform including at least one processor-based component having at least one nontransitory processor-readable medium communicatively coupled to the processor and which stores at least one of processor-executable instructions or data, the method comprising:
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based at least in part on an actual path that a first end user has taken at least partially through a plurality of narrative segments that comprise a first narrative, generating a graphical dynamic path map that illustrates at least a portion of the actual path taken by the first end user through the plurality of narrative segments that comprise the first narrative; and causing a presentation of at least a portion of the graphical dynamic path map to the end user, the graphical dynamic path map comprising indicia corresponding to respective ones of at least two of the plurality of narrative segments. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. A method of operation in a content delivery platform including at least one processor-based component having at least one nontransitory processor-readable medium communicatively coupled to the processor and which stores at least one of processor-executable instructions or data, the method comprising:
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for a first narrative comprised of a plurality of narrative segments and having a plurality of characters, generating a graphical dynamic path map that has a core graphical structure that identifies each of the characters in the first narrative comprised, each of the characters represented by respective character nodes in the core graphical structure, and that illustrates a plurality of paths through the first narrative as a number of segment nodes and segment edges, the segment nodes representative of narrative segments and the segment edges representative of segment paths between narrative segments; and causing a presentation of at least a portion of the graphical dynamic path map to an end user. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22)
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23. A method of operation in a content delivery platform including at least one processor-based component having at least one nontransitory processor-readable medium communicatively coupled to the processor and which stores at least one of processor-executable instructions or data, the method comprising:
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for a first narrative comprised of a plurality of narrative segments and having a plurality of characters; receiving user input for a first user that specifies a presentation order for presentation of a subset of the plurality of narrative segments; storing the presentation order for the first user for the first narrative; and causing a presentation of at least two of the subset of the plurality of narrative segments in the presentation order specified by the first user for the first narrative. - View Dependent Claims (24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29)
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