System and method for tagging content and delivering the tag to buddies of a given user

• US 20060271961A1
• Filed: 08/02/2006
• Published: 11/30/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 01/05/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Incorporated (Verizon Communications Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Yahoo! Inc. (Apollo Global Management, Inc.)
• Inventors: Jacoby, Ronald, O'Kane, Brenda
• Granted Patent: US 8,943,538 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 725/46
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2353 specifically adapted to content descriptors, e.g. coding, compressing or processing of metadata
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/258 Client or end-user data management, e.g. managing client capabilities, user preferences or demographics, processing of multiple end-users preferences to derive collaborative data arrangements for services using the result on the distributing side of broadcast systems H04H60/66; profiles in network data switching protocols H04L67/30
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/25841 involving the geographical location of the client retrieval from the Internet by querying based on geographical locations G06F16/9537; arrangements for identifying locations of receiving stations in broadcast systems H04H60/51; location of the user terminal in data switching networks H04L67/52; services making use of the location of users or terminals in wireless networks H04W4/02; locating users or terminals in wireless networks H04W64/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/25891 being end-user preferences retrieval of video data in a video database based on user preferences G06F16/739; arrangements for recognizing users' preferences H04H60/46; 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 21/2668 Creating a channel for a dedicated end-user group, e.g. insertion of targeted commercials based on end-user profiles information retrieval from the Internet by querying with filtering and personalisation G06F16/9535; arrangements for replacing or switching information during the broadcast H04H20/10; push services over packet-switching network H04L12/1859; adaptation of message content in packet-switching networks H04L51/063
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4227 Providing Remote input by a user located remotely from the client device, e.g. at work
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4524 involving the geographical location of the client retrieval from the Internet by querying based on geographical locations G06F16/9537; systems specially adapted for using geographical information in broadcast systems H04H60/70; protocols in which the network application is adapted for the location of the user terminal in communication control or processing H04L67/52; services making use of the location of users or terminals in wireless networks H04W4/02; locating users or terminals in wireless networks H04W64/00
• 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 21/4668 for recommending content, e.g. movies
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4781 Games
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4788 communicating with other users, e.g. chatting arrangements for providing for computer conferences, e.g. chat rooms, to substation in data switching networks H04L12/1813; distributed application using peer-to-peer [P2P] networks H04L67/104
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/63 Control signaling related to video distribution between client, server and network components; Network processes for video distribution between server and clients or between remote clients, e.g. transmitting basic layer and enhancement layers over different transmission paths, setting up a peer-to-peer communication via Internet between remote STB's; Communication protocols; Addressing real-time session protocols H04L65/1101; distributed application using peer-to-peer [P2P] networks H04L67/104
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/812 involving advertisement data advertising per se G06Q30/02
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/858 Linking data to content, e.g. by linking an URL to a video object, by creating a hotspot
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/17318 Direct or substantially direct transmission and handling of requests

Abstract

A method comprises retrieving a profile of a given user, the given user having a given-user device; delivering a content item to the given-user device; receiving one or more user-specified tags associated with the content item; identifying one or more buddies of the user as indicated in the profile; and delivering the one or more tags to the one or more buddies.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

retrieving a profile of a given user, the given user having a given-user device;

delivering a content item to the given-user device;

receiving one or more user-specified tags associated with the content item;

identifying one or more buddies of the user as indicated in the profile; and

delivering the one or more tags to the one or more buddies.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the content item includes at least one of television content, audio content, video content, web pages, and gaming applications.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the content item comprises content recommended based on the profile.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the content item comprises content selected by the given user.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the identifying the one or more buddies comprises:

identifying one or more instant messaging applications to which the user has subscribed;

identifying one or more other users in the one or more instant messaging applications; and

identifying at least one of the one or more of the other users as the one or more buddies.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the identifying the one or more buddies comprises:

identifying characteristics of the given user based on the profile;

examining characteristics of other-user profiles to identify one or more other users with similar characteristics; and

identifying the one or more other users as the one or more buddies.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the one or more user-specified tags comprises user-specified delimiters of at least one portion of the content item.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the delivering the one or more tags to the one or more buddies comprises delivering the delimiters to the one or more buddies.

9. The method of claim 8, further comprising delivering the at least one portion of the content item to the one or more buddies.

10. A system comprising:

a content store for storing content items;

a given-user device of a given user;

an other-user device of another user; and

a content distribution server coupled to the content store, the given user device and the other-user device and operative to retrieve a profile of a given user, deliver a content item to the given-user device, receive one or more user-specified tags associated with the content item, identify one or more buddies of the user as indicated in the profile, and deliver the one or more tags to the one or more buddies.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein the content item includes at least one of television content, audio content, video content, web pages, and gaming applications.

12. The system of claim 10, wherein the content item comprises content recommended based on the profile.

13. The system of claim 10, wherein the content item comprises content selected by the given user.

14. The system of claim 10, wherein the content distribution server is operative to identify one or more instant messaging applications to which the user has subscribed, identify one or more other users in the one or more instant messaging applications, and identify at least one of the one or more of the other users as the one or more buddies.

15. The system of claim 10, wherein the content distribution server is operative to identify characteristics of the given user from the profile, examine characteristics of other user profiles to identify other users with similar characteristics, and identify the one or more other users as the one or more buddies.

16. The system of claim 10, wherein the one or more user-specified tags comprises user-specified delimiters of at least one portion of the content item.

17. The system of claim 16, wherein the content distribution server is operative to deliver the delimiters to the one or more buddies.

18. The system of claim 17, wherein the content distribution server is operative to deliver the at least one portion of the content item to the one or more buddies.

19. A system comprising:

retrieving means for retrieving a profile of a given user, the given user having a given-user device;

first delivering means for delivering a content item to the given-user device;

receiving means for receiving one or more user-specified tags associated with the content item;

identifying means for identifying one or more buddies of the user as indicated in the profile; and

second delivering means for delivering the one or more tags to the one or more buddies.

20. The system of claim 19, wherein the retrieving means includes a profile component.

21. The system of claim 19, wherein the identifying means includes a messaging component.

22. The system of claim 19, wherein the first delivering means, receiving means, and second delivering means each include a portion of a TV application component.