SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FILTERING CONTENT BASED ON GESTURES

• US 20120254228A1
• Filed: 04/02/2011
• Published: 10/04/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 04/02/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: Recursion Software, Inc.
• Inventors: Patoskie, John
• Granted Patent: US 8,825,643 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/769
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/955 using information identifiers, e.g. uniform resource locators [URL]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/017 Gesture based interaction, e.g. based on a set of recognized hand gestures interaction based on gestures traced on a digitiser G06F3/04883
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46

Abstract

In order to provide filtering of content to be presented on a mobile device, a gesture-based preferencing system and method may be employed. When content is presented to a user, the user may indicate a positive or negative preference toward that content by making a gesture. The gesture may be detected by a motion sensor and the preference of the content indicated by the gesture may be stored in a preference datastore. The preference may be used to subsequently filter content that is to be presented to the user.

Claims

1. A method for filtering content received into a mobile device, the method comprising:

receiving first content into the mobile device;

parsing the first content to determine one or more content parameters of the first content;

presenting the first content to a user of the mobile device;

recording a user gesture with at least one gesture recording device associated with the mobile device;

determining a content-related preference from the gesture;

associating the content related preference with the one or more content parameters;

storing the association in a preference datastore;

receiving second content into the mobile device;

parsing the second content to determine one or more second content parameters of the second content;

providing the one or more second content parameters to the preference datastore to retrieve one or more preferences in respect of the second content;

filtering the second content in accordance with the retrieved one or more preferences; and

presenting the filtered second content to a user of the mobile device.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the content related preference comprises a positive preference, and wherein filtering the second content comprises applying the positive preference to determine content to present to the user.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein the content related preference comprises a negative preference, and wherein filtering the second content comprises applying the negative preference to determine content to not present to the user.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein determining the content-related preference comprises receiving an input from the user of the mobile device in association with the gesture that indicates the content-related preference.

5. The method of claim 1 comprising:

retrieving one or more first preferences from the preference datastore in respect of the one or more parameters of the first content;

filtering the first content in accordance with the one or more first preferences; and

presenting filtered first content to the user.

6. The method of claim 1 comprising:

recording a second gesture in respect of the filtered second content, the second gesture indicating a preference in respect of the filtered second content; and

storing the preference for the filtered second content as indicated by the second gesture.

7. The method of claim 1 comprising invoking a preference recording application that enables a user to record a gesture-based preference.

8. The method of claim 1 wherein the preference datastore comprises a memory of the mobile device.

9. The method of claim 1 wherein recording a user gesture comprises recording motion of the mobile device.

10. The method of claim 1 wherein recording a user gesture comprises recording motion of a device locally paired with the mobile device.

11. The method of claim 10 wherein recording a user gesture comprises recording eye movement of the user.

12. The method of claim 1 wherein recording a user gesture comprises recording a degree of movement, the method comprising ranking a preference based on the degree of movement.

13. A mobile device configured for communications with a data network and to receive content from the data network, the mobile device comprising:

at least one motion sensor; and

an application executable on at least one processor of the mobile device, the application configured to;

present content to a user of the mobile device;

record a gesture-based preference in respect of the content; and

store the gesture-based preference.

14. The mobile device of claim 13 comprising a memory for storing a plurality of gesture-based preferences.

15. The mobile device of claim 14 wherein the application is configured to:

retrieve one or more gesture-based preferences from the memory;

apply the one or more gesture-based preferences to content received into the mobile device to filter the content; and

present filtered content to the user.

16. A method for recording a content preference for content to be presented in a mobile device, the method comprising:

receiving content into a mobile device;

determining one or more content parameters of the first content;

presenting the first content to a user of the mobile device;

recording a user gesture with at least one gesture recording device associated with the mobile device;

determining a content-related preference from the gesture;

associating the content related preference with the one or more of the content parameters; and

storing the content related preference in a preference datastore.

17. The method of claim 16 comprising:

recording a user gesture;

associating a preference indication with the recorded user gesture; and

storing the preference action in association with the user gesture in a gesture analyzing module.

18. The method of claim 17 wherein determining a content-related preference from the gesture comprises using a stored preference indication associated with a gesture.

19. The method of claim 18 comprising associating a positive preference indication with a first user gesture.

20. The method of claim 19 comprising associating a negative preference indication with a second user gesture.