Media navigation recommendations

• US 10,425,769 B2
• Filed: 05/27/2014
• Issued: 09/24/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 03/31/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Inventors: Madhvanath, Sriganesh, Prabhu, Sandeep Matti
• Primary Examiner(s): Chan, Wing F
• Assistant Examiner(s): Krishnan, Rajeshwari
• Application Number:
  US15/129,296
• Publication Number:
  US 20170118306A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,946 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/343 Calculating itineraries, i.e. routes leading from a starting point to a series of categorical destinations using a global route restraint, round trips, touristic trips travelling salesman problem G06Q10/04; optimisation of routes G06Q10/047
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 20/20 in augmented reality scenes
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/22 comprising specially adapted graphical user interfaces [GUI]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/63 Routing a service request depending on the request content or context
• 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 4/025 using location based information parameters
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services

Abstract

In one example of the disclosure, navigation data indicative of sequencing and spatial relationship among a plurality of media hotspots is accessed. Each of the hotspots is included within a medium and includes a spatial address. Data indicative of a mobile device'"'"'s detection of a target hotspot and the mobile device'"'"'s provision of a display of the target hotspot is received via a network. A recommendation for navigation to an associated hotspot is determined based on the navigation data. The associated hotspot is an immediate predecessor or successor relative to the target hotspot. The recommendation is provided to the device for display.

Claims

1. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing instructions executable by a processor circuit to implement a system to provide media navigation recommendations, wherein the instructions, when executed by the processor circuit, cause the system to:

access navigation data indicative of sequencing and spatial relationships among a plurality of media hotspots, with each hotspot being included within a medium and including a spatial address;

receive, via a network, data indicative of a mobile device'"'"'s detection of a covert target hotspot and to display the covert target hotspot via a display of the mobile device;

determine based on the navigation data a recommendation for navigation to an associated hotspot that is an immediate predecessor or successor relative to the covert target hotspot; and

provide the recommendation to the mobile device for display.

2. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 1, wherein the instructions trigger an information display relating to a subject of the medium at the display of the mobile device when each hotspot is detected by way of a camera of the mobile device, wherein the covert target hotspot is imperceptible to a naked human eye.

3. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 1, wherein the recommendation includes instructions to present a directional arrow in the display of the mobile device, the arrow to point from the covert target hotspot toward the associated hotspot.

4. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 1, wherein the instructions cause the mobile device to utilize the recommendation to cause presentation of a directional arrow in the display of the mobile device, the arrow to point from the covert target hotspot toward the associated hotspot.

5. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 1, wherein the instructions further cause the system to determine an explicit path through a subset of the plurality of hotspots, and to provide the path with the recommendation as part of the display.

6. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 1, wherein the instructions further cause the system to:

determine a plurality of subject-specific path options involving subsets of the plurality of hotspots, and to provide the options to the mobile device for display; and

responsive to a receipt of a request for a first subject-specific path from the options, provide the first path including the recommendation.

7. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 1, wherein the covert target hotspot and the associated hotspot are included within the same medium.

8. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 1, wherein the plurality of media hotspots are distributed across a plurality of media, and wherein the covert target hotspot is included within a first medium among the plurality of media, and the associated hotspot is included within a second medium among the plurality of media.

9. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 1, wherein each of the plurality of media hotspots is covert, such that the plurality of media hotspots are imperceptible to a naked human eye.

10. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 1, wherein each of the plurality of media hotspots is covert such that the plurality of media hotspots is imperceptible to a naked human eye from a plurality of angles and distances.

11. A system to provide media navigation recommendations, comprising:

a request engine, to access navigation data indicative of sequencing and spatial relationships among a plurality of media hotspots, with each hotspot being included within a medium and including a spatial address;

a detection data engine, to receive, via a network, data indicative of a mobile device'"'"'s detection of a covert target hotspot via a camera and to provide a display of the covert target hotspot via a display of the mobile device;

a determination engine to determine based on the navigation data a recommendation for navigation to an associated hotspot that is an immediate predecessor or successor relative to the covert target hotspot;

a recommendation engine, to, responsive to the determination, provide the recommendation to the mobile device for display via the display of the mobile device; and

wherein the recommendation includes instructions for presentation of directional information in the display, and further wherein each of the engines and the mobile device include circuitry.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein the plurality of media hotspots are distributed across a plurality of media, and wherein the covert target hotspot is included within a first medium among the plurality of media, and the associated hotspot is included within a second medium among the plurality of media.

13. The system of claim 11, wherein the determination engine is to receive data indicative of relative popularity of the plurality of media hotspots according to user preferences or user navigation among the media hotspots, and determine the recommendation based on the relative popularity data.

14. The system of claim 11, wherein the recommendation is a first recommendation and the determination engine is to:

determine identity of a first user at the mobile device that is interacting with the display;

receive a second recommendation for a hotspot, the second recommendation made by a second user that is a social media friend of the first user; and

determine the first recommendation based on the second recommendation.

15. The system of claim 11, wherein the determination engine is to receive data indicative of a time budget for a user, and wherein the recommendation is determined based upon the time budget.

16. The system of claim 15, wherein the determination engine is to receive the data indicative of the time budget from another device, the data being associated with calendar information of the user stored on the other device, and is to determine the recommendation for the navigation to the associated hotspot based on the navigation data and the time budget.

17. A method to provide media navigation recommendations, comprising:

acquiring, via a graphic user interface, establishment data that specifies a plurality of media hotspots to be incorporated within a medium and receiving spatial addresses for hotspots, such that the establishment data is interpretable by interpretive programming of a mobile device to detect a covert target hotspot among the plurality of media hotspots; and

acquiring, via a graphic user interface, navigation data indicative of sequencing and spatial relationships among the plurality of media hotspots, such that the navigation data is usable by a server to determine a recommendation for navigation from the covert target hotspot to an associated hotspot.

18. The method of claim 17, further comprising acquiring via a graphic user interface a description of a directional indicator to be displayed at the mobile device, the directional indicator to point to the associated hotspot, and further wherein the associated hotspot is covert.

19. The method of claim 17, wherein each of the plurality of media hotspots is covert such that the plurality of hotspots is imperceptible to a human eye.

20. The method of claim 17, further including:

receiving data indicative of a time budget from the mobile device, the data being associated with calendar information of a user stored on the mobile device; and

determining a recommendation for navigation to the associated hotspot based on the navigation data and the time budget.