System to track engagement of media items

• US 10,327,100 B1
• Filed: 10/02/2018
• Issued: 06/18/2019
• 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:
  US16/149,849
• Time in Patent Office: 259 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;

presenting a message that includes media content at a device;

receiving a request to access the media content from the device, the request including a first timestamp;

detecting the device within a boundary of a geo-fence that encompasses a location associated with the media content;

determining a period of time between the request to access the media content and the detecting the device within the boundary of the geo-fence that encompasses the location based on at least the timestamp; and

content;

calculating an engagement score of the media content based on the period of time.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the instructions cause the system to perform operations further comprising:

generating a visualization of the engagement score; and

causing display of the visualization of the engagement score.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the generating the visualization of the engagement score includes:

retrieving a baseline score associated with the location; and

generating the visualization based on the engagement score of the media content and the baseline score of the location.

4. The system of claim 2, wherein the visualization comprises a graph that indicates a rate of change based on the engagement score.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the request is a first request that includes a first timestamp, and the detecting the device within the boundary of the geo-fence that encompasses the location associated with the media content includes:

receiving a second request to access the media content from the device, the second request including a second timestamp.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the message includes an ephemeral message.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the instructions cause the system to perform operations further comprising:

initiating a timer to track a predefined period of time in response to the receiving the request to access the media content from the device, the predefined period of time defining a time limit; and

detecting the device within the boundary of the geo-fence that encompasses the location associated with the media content within the time limit.

8. A method comprising:

presenting a message that includes media content at a device;

receiving a request to access the media content from the device, the request including a first timestamp;

detecting the device within a boundary of a geo-fence that encompasses a location associated with the media content;

determining a period of time between the request to access the media content and the detecting the device within the boundary of the geo-fence that encompasses the location based on at least the timestamp; and

calculating an engagement score of the media content based on the period of time.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the method further comprises:

generating a visualization of the engagement score; and

causing display of the visualization of the engagement score.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the generating the visualization of the engagement score includes:

retrieving a baseline score associated with the location; and

content generating the visualization based on the engagement score of the media content and the baseline score of the location.

11. The method of claim 9, wherein the visualization comprises a graph that indicates a rate of change based on the engagement score.

12. The method of claim 8, wherein the request is a first request that includes a first timestamp, and the detecting the device within the boundary of the geo-fence that encompasses the location associated with the media content includes:

receiving a second request to access the media content from the device, the second request including a second timestamp.

13. The method of claim 8, wherein the message includes an ephemeral message.

14. The method of claim 8, wherein the method further comprises:

initiating a timer to track a predefined period of time in response to the receiving the request to access the media content from the device, the predefined period of time defining a time limit; and

detecting the device within the boundary of the geo-fence that encompasses the location associated with the media content within the time limit.

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:

presenting a message that includes media content at a device;

receiving a request to access the media content from the device, the request including a first timestamp;

detecting the device within a boundary of a geo-fence that encompasses a location associated with the media content;

determining a period of time between the request to access the media content and the detecting the device within the boundary of the geo-fence that encompasses the location based on at least the timestamp; and

calculating an engagement score of the media content based on the period of time.

16. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 15, wherein the instructions cause the machine to perform operations further comprising:

generating a visualization of the engagement score; and

causing display of the visualization of the engagement score.

17. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 16, wherein the generating the visualization of the engagement score includes:

retrieving a baseline score associated with the location; and

generating the visualization based on the engagement score of the media content and the baseline score of the location.

18. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 16, wherein the visualization comprises a graph that indicates a rate of change based on the engagement score.

19. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 15, wherein the request is a first request that includes a first timestamp, and the detecting the device within the boundary of the geo-fence that encompasses the location associated with the media content includes:

receiving a second request to access the media content from the device, the second request including a second timestamp.

20. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 15, wherein the instructions cause the machine to perform operations further comprising:

initiating a timer to track a predefined period of time in response to the receiving the request to access the media content from the device, the predefined period of time defining a time limit; and

detecting the device within the boundary of the geo-fence that encompasses the location associated with the media content within the time limit.