Personalized content management

• US 20020057297A1
• Filed: 06/12/2001
• Published: 05/16/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 06/12/2000
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Andrews Kurth LLP, CacheStream Corp. (Columbia Bakeries, Inc.), Andrews Kurth Kenyon LLP (Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP)
• Original Assignee: Andrews Kurth LLP
• Inventors: Grimes, Tom, Mai, Khanh
• Application Number:
  US09/878,232
• Publication Number:
  US 20020057297A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/810
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9577 Optimising the visualization of content, e.g. distillation of HTML documents
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4312 involving specific graphical features, e.g. screen layout, special fonts or colors, blinking icons, highlights or animations
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4314 for fitting data in a restricted space on the screen, e.g. EPG data in a rectangular grid
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/44209 Monitoring of downstream path of the transmission network originating from a server, e.g. bandwidth variations of a wireless network arrangements for maintenance or administration in data switching networks involving bandwidth and capacity management H04L41/0896
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4508 Management of client data or end-user data
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4532 involving end-user characteristics, e.g. viewer profile, preferences monitoring of user activities for profile generation for accessing a video database G06F16/739; user profiles in network data switching protocols H04L67/306; processing of user preferences or user profiles in wireless networks H04W8/18
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47 End-user applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4755 for defining user preferences, e.g. favourite actors or genre retrieval personalisation and generation of user profiles for the retrieval of video data G06F16/739; user profiles in network data switching protocols H04L67/306
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/478 Supplemental services, e.g. displaying phone caller identification, shopping application
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4828 for searching program descriptors retrieval of video data G06F16/739
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/163 by receiver means only
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 715/97 Instrumentation and component modelling, e.g. interactive control panel

Abstract

A personalized content manager is disclosed. The personalized content manager comprises an apparatus, system, method, and computer readable medium that includes or performs the steps of receiving input regarding the filtering of broadband content, filtering the broadband content with one or more content categories based on the filtering input, filtering the content with one or more of a plurality of content sources based on the filtering input, and generating a personalized content management interface screen that includes a list of titles of the filtered content.

Claims

1. A personalized content management interface, comprising:

a dynamic graphical user interface (“

GUI”

), comprising;

one or more category buttons capable of being selected, wherein the category button(s) represents a category of content that may be accessed by a user;

one or more source buttons, including a source button for real-time stream, capable of being selected, wherein the source button(s) represents a source of content that may be accessed by a user; and

a content list, wherein one category button and one source button are selected and the content list includes any content, if any, that is within the category of content represented by the selected category button and that is provided by the source of content represented by the selected source button.

2. The personalized content management interface of claim 1 wherein the content list comprises a content title that may be selected to access corresponding content.

3. The personalized content management interface of claim 1 in which the dynamic GUI is displayed at a client on a display device and the client has a bandwidth capacity, wherein the content list is filtered to only include content that has a bandwidth requirement less than or equal to the bandwidth capacity.

4. The personalized content management interface of claim 1 wherein the one or more source buttons include a source button for local cache content.

5. The personalized content management interface of claim 1 wherein the one or more source buttons include a source button for edge-of-net content.

6. The personalized content management interface of claim 1 wherein the dynamic GUI displays available now content.

7. The personalized content management interface of claim 1 wherein the dynamic GUI displays scheduled content.

8. The personalized content management interface of claim 1 comprising a plurality of source buttons, wherein:

a plurality of source buttons are selected; and

the content list includes content from the plurality of selected source buttons.

9. The personalized content management interface of claim 1 wherein content list is sorted by a user profile that describes the user'"'"'s viewing habits.

10. The personalized content management interface of claim 1 further comprising a user machine and a display, wherein the dynamic GUI is generated by software resident on the user machine and is displayed on the display.

11. A method of personalized content management, comprising the steps of:

displaying a personalized content management interface;

receiving selection of one or more category buttons;

receiving selection of one or more source buttons, wherein the source buttons include a multicast stream button; and

generating a list of content that comprises content titles for content that is within the category of content represented by the selected category button and that is provided by the source of content represented by the selected source button.

12. The method of claim 11 wherein the generating comprises sorting the list of content according to a user profile.

13. The method of claim 11 wherein the method is executed at a client with a bandwidth capacity and wherein the generating comprises filtering the list of content to only include content that has a bandwidth requirement that is less than bandwidth capacity of the client.

15. A system for providing broadband content that comprises:

a signal origination point that originates broadband content;

a transmission medium that receives and transmits the broadband content transmitted from the signal origination point;

a service provider that received the transmitted broadband content; and

the client of claim 14, wherein the client received the transmitted broadband content from the service provider.

17. The method of claim 16, further comprising the step of:

receiving the broadband content.

18. The method of claim 16, further comprising the step of:

receiving a plurality of program nuggets, at least some of the program nuggets corresponding to received broadband content.

19. The method of claim 16, further comprising the steps of:

sorting the filtered content with a user profile, wherein;

the user profile comprises rankings of viewed content;

the sorting step sorts the filtered content in an order corresponding to the rankings of viewed content; and

the generating step generates a personalized content management interface screen that includes a list of titles of the filtered and sorted content.

20. The method of claim 16, further comprising the steps of:

determining if user filtering input is received, whereby the filtering and generating steps are repeated if user filtering input is received.

21. The method of claim 16, wherein the receiving filtering input step includes receiving default settings.

22. The method of claim 16, wherein the receiving filtering input step includes:

receiving one or more user category selections; and

receiving one or more user source selections.

23. The method of claim 22, wherein:

the generating step includes displaying a plurality of category buttons and a plurality of source buttons;

the receiving one or more user category selections step receives one or more user selections of category buttons; and

the receiving one ore more user source selections step receives one or more user selections of source buttons.

24. The method of claim 16, wherein the filtering the content with one or more content categories step includes:

comparing user selected categories to program nugget data that corresponds with the content.

25. The method of claim 16, wherein the filtering the content with one or more sources step includes:

comparing user selected sources to program nugget data that corresponds with the content.

26. The method of claim 16, further comprising:

filtering the content with input schedule data.

27. The method of claim 16, further comprising:

filtering the content with available now status.

28. The method of claim 16, further comprising:

filtering the content with bandwidth capacity.

29. The method of claim 16, further comprising:

receiving a user title selection, wherein the title is selected from the list of titles in the personalized content interface screen; and

displaying the content corresponding to the selected title.

30. The method of claim 16, further comprising:

conducting a word search of the list of titles in the personalized content interface screen; and

generating a personalized content interface screen including titles of content matching the word search.

31. The method of claim 16, wherein the generating a personalized content interface screen step generates a dynamic graphical user interface (“

GUI”

) that includes;

one or more category buttons capable of being selected, wherein the category button(s) represents a category of content that may be accessed by a user;

one or more source buttons, including a source button for real-time stream, capable of being selected, wherein the source button(s) represents a source of content that may be accessed by a user; and

a content list, wherein one category button and one source button are selected and the content list includes any content, if any, that is within the category of content represented by the selected category button and that is provided by the source of content represented by the selected source button.

32. A computer-readable medium containing instructions for performing the method of claim 16.

14. A client, that has a bandwidth capacity, comprising:

a user machine, that includes;

a processor;

a display; and

a memory that includes client software with a personal content manager module containing instructions for generating;

a dynamic graphical user interface (“

GUI”

), that is displayed on the display, the dynamic GUI comprising;

one or more category buttons capable of being selected, wherein the category button(s) represents a category of content that may be accessed by a user;

one or more source buttons, including a source button for real-time stream, capable of being selected, wherein the source button(s) represents a source of content that may be accessed by a user; and

a content list, wherein one category button and one source button are selected and the content list includes any content, if any, that is within the category of content represented by the selected category button, that is provided by the source of content represented by the selected source button and that has a bandwidth that is less than or equal to the client bandwidth capacity.

16. A method of personalized content management, comprising the steps of:

receiving input regarding the filtering of broadband content;

filtering the broadband content with one or more content categories based on the filtering input;

filtering the content with one or more of a plurality of content sources based on the filtering input; and

generating a personalized content management interface screen that includes a list of titles of the filtered content.

33. A user machine comprising:

a processor; and

a memory containing instructions, for execution by the processor, for performing the method of claim 16.