System and method for identifying media content items and related media content items

• US 20080126303A1
• Filed: 09/07/2006
• Published: 05/29/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 09/07/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: R2 Solutions LLC (Acacia Research Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Yahoo! Inc. (Apollo Global Management, Inc.)
• Inventors: Park, Seung-Taek, Pennock, David Myer
• Granted Patent: US 8,166,029 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/3
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/735 Filtering based on additional data, e.g. user or group profiles
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/78 Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually

Abstract

A method comprising receiving a search query to generate a search result of one or more media items and providing a personalized search rank of the one or more media items on the basis of a user profile and an item relevance for a given media item with regard to the query metadata associated with the search result is identified and used to identify at least one related media item. The at least one related media item is ranked on the basis of the user profile and the metadata.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

receiving a search query to generate a search result of one or more media items;

providing a personalized search rank of the one or more media items on the basis of a user profile and an item relevance for a given media item with regard to the query;

identifying metadata associated with the search result;

using the metadata to identify at least one related media item; and

ranking the at least one related media item on the basis of the user profile and the metadata.

2. The method of claim 1 further comprising tracking activity on the content items of the search result, and storing the tracked data in a preference profile.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein the personalized search rank is determined according to a preference profile.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein the personalized search rank comprises an explicit rating.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein the personalized search rank comprises a predicted rating.

6. The method of claim 1 wherein the personalized search rank comprise a global rating.

7. The method of claim 1 wherein the item relevance comprises a web relevance.

8. The method of claim 1 wherein the item relevance comprises a DB relevance.

9. The method of claim 1 wherein the at least one related media item comprises one or more movies connected by common cast and crewmembers.

10. The method of claim 1 wherein the at least one related media item comprises one or more movies connected by item similarities in user preferences.

11. A system comprising:

a search engine for receiving a search query and generating a search result of one or more media items, the search result organized in accordance with a personalized search rank on the basis of a user profile and an item relevance for a given media item with regard to the query;

a user preference agent coupled to the search engine for identifying metadata associated with the search result and for using the metadata to identify at least one related media item; and

a ranking component coupled to the user preference agent for ranking the search result and for ranking the at least one related media item in accordance the user profile and the metadata.

12. The system of claim 11 further comprising interface components for tracking activity on the content items of the search result, and storing the tracked data in a preference profile.

13. The system of claim 11 wherein the personalized search rank is determined in accordance with a preference profile.

14. The system of claim 11 wherein the personalized search rank comprises an explicit rating.

15. The system of claim 11 wherein the personalized search rank comprises a predicted rating.

16. The system of claim 11 wherein the personalized search rank comprises a global rating.

17. The system of claim 11 wherein the item relevance comprises a web relevance.

18. The system of claim 11 wherein the item relevance comprises a DB relevance.

19. The system of claim 11 wherein the at least one related media item comprises one or more movies connected by at least one common cast and crewmember.

20. The system of claim 11 wherein the at least one related media item comprises one or more movies connected by item similarities based on user preferences.

21. A system comprising:

means for receiving a search query to generate a search result of one or more media items;

means for providing a personalized search rank of the one or more media items on the basis of a user profile and an item relevance for a given media item with regard to the query;

means for identifying metadata associated with the search result;

means for using the metadata to identify at least one related media item; and

means for ranking the at least one related media item on the basis of the user profile and the metadata.