Notification targeting based on downstream user engagement

• US 10,425,372 B2
• Filed: 08/18/2015
• Issued: 09/24/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 08/18/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Inventors: Lewis, Justin, Davies, Ruxandra Georgiana
• Primary Examiner(s): Gillis, Brian J.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Guzman, Javier O
• Application Number:
  US14/829,211
• Publication Number:
  US 20170054669A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,498 Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/10 Multimedia information
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/224 providing notification on incoming messages, e.g. pushed notifications of received messages
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 19/04 the ringing-current being generated at the substations

Abstract

A notification that has been generated for a user may be identified. The notification may pertain to a media content item. A determination may be made as to whether the user interacted with the media content item, and a further determination may be made as to whether the user has interacted with the notification. In response to determining that the user has interacted with the media content item and has not interacted with the notification pertaining to the media content item, an affinity score of the user with respect to the notification may be calculated. A condition associated with providing a subsequent notification to the user may be determined based on the affinity score of the user.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

identifying a notification generated for a particular user, the notification being provided to a first device associated with the particular user and pertaining to a media content item;

determining whether the particular user has interacted with the media content item at a second device associated with the particular user;

determining whether the particular user has interacted with the notification by selecting a reference to the media content item within the notification;

responsive to determining that the particular user has interacted with the media content item at the second device and has not interacted with the notification provided to the first device and pertaining to the media content item, calculating, by a processing device, an affinity score of the particular user with respect to the notification based on an amount of time that has elapsed between the notification that the particular user has not interacted with being provided to the particular user at the first device and the particular user interacting with the media content item referenced by the notification at the second device without interacting with the notification;

determining whether to provide a subsequent notification to the particular user based on the affinity score of the particular user; and

generating the subsequent notification for the particular user responsive to determining to provide the subsequent notification to the particular user based on the affinity score of the particular user.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

in response to determining that the particular user has interacted with the media content item, determining whether the interaction of the particular user with the media content item occurred within a threshold period of time from a transmission of the notification to the particular user.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the notification pertaining to the media content item is one of a delivered notification that has been transmitted to the particular user or a queued notification that has been generated for the particular user and has not yet been transmitted to the particular user.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising determining a type of the subsequent notification and when the subsequent notification is transmitted to the particular user.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the reference to the media content item identifies the media content item to the particular user, and wherein the particular user has interacted with the media content item by accessing the media content item.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the media content item is a video that has been received from a second user, and the notification is transmitted to the particular user in response to the receiving of the video from the second user.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein calculating the affinity score responsive to determining that the particular user has interacted with the media content item at the second device and has not interacted with the notification provided to the first device comprises:

determining that the particular user has performed a search for the media content item at a content platform providing the media content item without selecting the reference to the media content item within the notification, the reference corresponding to a link to the media content item at the content platform.

8. A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium storing instructions which, when executed, cause a processing device to perform operations comprising:

identifying a notification generated for a particular user, the notification being provided to a first device associated with the particular user and pertaining to a media content item;

determining whether the particular user has interacted with the media content item at a second device associated with the particular user;

determining whether the particular user has interacted with the notification by selecting a reference to the media content item within the notification;

responsive to determining that the particular user has interacted with the media content item at the second device and has not interacted with the notification provided to the first device and pertaining to the media content item, calculating an affinity score of the particular user with respect to the notification based on an amount of time that has elapsed between the notification that the particular user has not interacted with being provided to the particular user at the first device and the particular user interacting with the media content item referenced by the notification at the second device without interacting with the notification;

determining whether to provide a subsequent notification to the particular user based on the affinity score of the particular user; and

generating the subsequent notification for the particular user responsive to determining to provide the subsequent notification to the particular user based on the affinity score of the particular user.

9. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 8, the operations further comprising:

in response to determining that the particular user has interacted with the media content item, determining whether the interaction of the particular user with the media content item occurred within a threshold period of time from a transmission of the notification to the particular user.

10. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 8, wherein the notification pertaining to the media content item is one of a delivered notification that has been transmitted to the particular user or a queued notification that has been generated for the particular user and has not yet been transmitted to the particular user.

11. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 8, the operations further comprising determining a type of the subsequent notification and when the subsequent notification is transmitted to the particular user.

12. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 8, wherein the reference to the media content item identifies the media content item to the particular user, and wherein the particular user has interacted with the media content item by accessing the media content item.

13. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 8, wherein the media content item is a video that has been received from a second user, and the notification is transmitted to the particular user in response to the receiving of the video from the second user.

14. A system comprising:

a memory; and

a processing device operatively coupled with the memory to;

identify a notification generated for a particular user, the notification being provided to a first device associated with the particular user and pertaining to a media content item;

determine whether the particular user has interacted with the media content item at a second device associated with the particular user;

determine whether the particular user has interacted with the notification by selecting a reference to the media content item within the notification;

responsive to determining that the particular user has interacted with the media content item at the second device and has not interacted with the notification provided to the first device and pertaining to the media content item, calculate an affinity score of the particular user with respect to the notification based on an amount of time that has elapsed between the notification that the particular user has not interacted with being provided to the particular user at the first device and the particular user interacting with the media content item referenced by the notification at the second device without interacting with the notification;

determine whether to provide a subsequent notification to the particular user based on the affinity score of the particular user; and

generate the subsequent notification for the particular user responsive to determining to provide the subsequent notification to the particular user based on the affinity score of the particular user.

15. The system of claim 14, wherein the processing device is further to:

in response to determining that the particular user has interacted with the media content item, determine whether the interaction of the particular user with the media content item occurred within a threshold period of time from a transmission of the notification to the particular user.

16. The system of claim 14, wherein the notification pertaining to the media content item is one of a delivered notification that has been transmitted to the particular user or a queued notification that has been generated for the particular user and has not yet been transmitted to the particular user.

17. The system of claim 14, wherein the processing device is further to determine a type of the subsequent notification and when the subsequent notification is transmitted to the particular user.

18. The system of claim 14, wherein the reference to the media content item identifies the media content item to the particular user, and wherein the particular user has interacted with the media content item by accessing the media content item.