PERSONALIZED VIDEO CHANNELS ON SOCIAL NETWORKS

• US 20090132527A1
• Filed: 01/05/2009
• Published: 05/21/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 11/20/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: SHESHAGIRI, Mithun, GIBBS, Simon J., RATHOD, Priyang, KUNJITHAPATHAM, Anugeetha, NGUYEN, Phuong
• Application Number:
  US12/348,629
• Publication Number:
  US 20090132527A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/52 for supporting social networking services

Abstract

In a first embodiment of the present invention, a method for automatically creating a list of media items for a user is provided. Information relating to the user is obtained from a social networking site. One or more keywords are then extracted from the information. The one or more keywords are then sent to a media item search engine. A list of media items relating to the keywords are received from the media item search engine.

Claims

1. A method for automatically creating a list of media items for a user, the method comprising:

obtaining information relating to the user from a social networking site;

extracting one or more keywords from the information;

sending the one or more keywords to a media item search engine; and

receiving a list of media items relating to the keywords from the media item search engine.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the information is at least partially extracted from a social networking site profile for the user.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the information includes information obtained from social networking site communications to and from the user.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein the information includes information obtained from tags used by the user to label web pages and/or media items.

5. The method of claim 2, wherein the information includes information obtained from a third party application.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the media items are videos.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the extracting includes comparing retrieved text to a dictionary.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the extracting further includes identifying proper nouns from the information and using the proper nouns as keywords.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

classifying at least one of the keywords into one or more categories; and

tagging the classified at least one of the keywords with the one or more categories.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the sending comprises sending a first set of keywords to the media item search engine if the user has a first status and a second set of keywords to the media item search engine if the user has a second status.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the first status is that the user is at work and the second status is that the user is at home.

12. The method of claim 1, further comprising forwarding the list of media items to a set-top box.

13. An apparatus for automatically creating a list of media items for a user, the apparatus comprising:

a personalized channel builder communicatively coupled to a video search engine and to a social networking site, the personalized channel builder comprising;

a profile extractor; and

a channel distributor.

14. The apparatus of claim 13, wherein the profile extractor includes:

a keyword extractor; and

a keyword classifier.

15. The apparatus of claim 14, wherein the keyword extractor is capable of accessing a dictionary.

16. An apparatus for automatically creating a list of media items for a user, the apparatus comprising:

means for obtaining information relating to the user from a social networking site;

means for extracting one or more keywords from the information;

means for sending the one or more keywords to a media item search engine; and

means for receiving a list of media items relating to the keywords from the media item search engine.

17. The apparatus of claim 16, wherein the means for extracting includes means for comparing retrieved text to a dictionary.

18. The apparatus of claim 17, wherein the means for extracting further includes means for identifying proper nouns from the information and using the proper nouns as keywords.

19. The apparatus of claim 16, further comprising:

means for classifying at least one of the keywords into one or more categories; and

means for tagging the classified at least one of the keywords with the one or more categories.

20. A program storage device readable by a machine tangibly embodying a program of instructions executable by the machine to perform a method for automatically creating a list of media items for a user, the method comprising:

obtaining information relating to the user from a social networking site;

extracting one or more keywords from the information;

sending the one or more keywords to a media item search engine; and

receiving a list of media items relating to the keywords from the media item search engine.