DATA DELIVERY FOR A CONTENT SYSTEM

• US 20110125753A1
• Filed: 11/20/2009
• Published: 05/26/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 11/20/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Rovi Technologies Corporation (Adeia Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Rovi Technologies Corporation (Adeia Inc.)
• Inventors: Gevorgyan, Gevorg, White, Gareth, Dow, Christopher
• Application Number:
  US12/622,766
• Publication Number:
  US 20110125753A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/740
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/435 Filtering based on additional data, e.g. user or group profiles
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/251 Learning process for intelligent management, e.g. learning user preferences for recommending movies details of learning user preferences for the retrieval of video data in a video database G06F16/739; computer systems using learning methods G06N3/08
• 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 21/2665 Gathering content from different sources, e.g. Internet and satellite
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4331 Caching operations, e.g. of an advertisement for later insertion during playback
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/472 End-user interface for requesting content, additional data or services; End-user interface for interacting with content, e.g. for content reservation or setting reminders, for requesting event notification, for manipulating displayed content end-user interfaces for retrieving video data from a database G06F16/739; network services for supporting unicast streaming H04L65/612
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4826 using recommendation lists, e.g. of programs or channels sorted out according to their score
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4828 for searching program descriptors retrieval of video data G06F16/739
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/84 Generation or processing of descriptive data, e.g. content descriptors systems specially adapted for using meta-information in broadcast systems H04H60/73
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/17318 Direct or substantially direct transmission and handling of requests

Abstract

A computer-implemented system and method for enabling data delivery in a content browsing and recommendation system are disclosed. The system and method in an example embodiment include: gathering available content information related to particular items of content from a plurality of content sources via a data network; processing the content information, using a data processor, to associate particular items of content information with content catalogs; storing the processed content information into a database with information identifying associated content catalogs; and providing a service, accessible via the data network, to enable a user platform to search the processed content information in the database based on a content catalog identifier.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method comprising:

gathering available content information related to particular items of content from a plurality of content sources via a data network;

processing the content information, using a data processor, to associate particular items of content information with content catalogs;

storing the processed content information into a database with information identifying associated content catalogs; and

providing a service, accessible via the data network, to enable a user platform to search the processed content information in the database based on a content catalog identifier.

2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 including normalizing the gathered content information by using an ingestion engine.

3. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 including processing the content information to associate particular items of content information with content groupings.

4. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 including processing the content information to associate particular items of content information with content types.

5. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 including processing the content information by extracting keywords from the content information.

6. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 including processing the content information by extracting metadata from the content information.

7. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 including providing a service, accessible via the data network, to enable a user platform to obtain a recommendation for processed content information in the database that is likely of interest to a user based on user behavior information retrieved from a user platform of the user.

8. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 including delivering a selected item of content to a user platform of a user.

9. A system comprising:

one or more data processors;

a data network interface in communication with the one or more data processors;

a database for storing processed content information and accessible to the one or more data processors;

a data delivery manager having a data network interface, the data delivery manager being executable by the one or more data processors to;

gather available content information related to particular items of content from a plurality of content sources via a data network;

process the content information to associate particular items of content information with content catalogs; and

store the processed content information into a database with information identifying associated content catalogs; and

a cross-platform service component having a data network interface, the cross-platform service component being executable by the one or more data processors to;

provide a service, accessible via the data network, to enable a user platform to search the processed content information in the database based on a content catalog identifier.

10. The system of claim 9 wherein the data delivery manager being configured to normalize the gathered content information by using an ingestion engine.

11. The system of claim 9 wherein the data delivery manager being configured to process the content information to associate particular items of content information with content groupings.

12. The system of claim 9 wherein the data delivery manager being configured to process the content information to associate particular items of content information with content types.

13. The system of claim 9 wherein the data delivery manager being configured to process the content information by extracting keywords from the content information.

14. The system of claim 9 wherein the data delivery manager being configured to process the content information by extracting metadata from the content information.

15. The system of claim 9 wherein the cross-platform service component being configured to provide a service, accessible via the data network, to enable a user platform to obtain a recommendation for processed content information in the database that is likely of interest to a user based on user behavior information retrieved from a user platform of the user.

16. The system of claim 9 being further configured to deliver a selected item of content to a user platform of a user.

17. An article of manufacture comprising a machine-readable storage medium having machine executable instructions embedded thereon, which when executed by a machine, cause the machine to:

gather available content information related to particular items of content from a plurality of content sources via a data network;

process the content information, using a data processor, to associate particular items of content information with content catalogs; and

store the processed content information into a database with information identifying associated content catalogs; and

provide a service, accessible via the data network, to enable a user platform to search the processed content information in the database based on a content catalog identifier.

18. The article of manufacture of claim 17 wherein the executable instructions being further configured to process the content information to associate particular items of content information with content groupings.

19. The article of manufacture of claim 17 wherein the executable instructions being further configured to provide a service, accessible via the data network, to enable a user platform to obtain a recommendation for processed content information in the database that is likely of interest to a user based on user behavior information retrieved from a user platform of the user.

20. The article of manufacture of claim 17 wherein the executable instructions being further configured to deliver a selected item of content to a user platform of a user.

21. A user platform with a data network interface, the user platform comprising:

a content information cache; and

a content manager being executable by one or more data processors to;

invoke a service, via a data network, to search processed content information in a database based on a content catalog identifier;

retrieve a search result from the service via the data network, the search result including selected content information; and

store the selected content information in the content information cache on the user platform.

22. The user platform of claim 21, wherein the content manager being further configured to generate an electronic program guide (EPG) from the selected content information in the content information cache.

23. The user platform of claim 21, wherein the content manager being further configured to periodically retrieve selected content information from the database and to store the retrieved selected content information in the content information cache.

24. The user platform of claim 21, wherein the content manager being further configured to send user behavior information to a clickstream processing system via the data network.

25. The user platform of claim 24, wherein the content manager being further configured to invoke a service, accessible via the data network, to enable the user platform to obtain, from the database, a recommendation for processed content information that is likely of interest to a user based on the user behavior information sent from the user platform.