MEDIA ASSET USAGE DATA REPORTING THAT INDICATES CORRESPONDING CONTENT CREATOR

• US 20140067855A1
• Filed: 01/04/2012
• Published: 03/06/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 01/04/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Magnolia Licensing LLC (IP Edge LLC)
• Original Assignee: Thomson Licensing (Vantiva SA)
• Inventors: Shartzer, Lee Douglas, Rudman, Kenneth Alan, Badawiyeh, Basil, Diep, Dan Han, Ahmed, Samir M., Booth, James Earl Jr.
• Granted Patent: US 9,582,535 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/769
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3438 monitoring of user actions tracking the activity of the user H04L67/535
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/245 Query processing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/686 using information manually generated, e.g. tags, keywords, comments, title or artist information, time, location or usage information, user ratings
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/687 using geographical or spatial information, e.g. location
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/7867 using information manually generated, e.g. tags, keywords, comments, title and artist information, manually generated time, location and usage information, user ratings
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/31 Arrangements for monitoring the use made of the broadcast services
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/44 for identifying broadcast stations
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/64 for providing detail information

Abstract

The disclosure is related to the idea of tracking user navigation, consumption, and/or behavior and applying analytics to help shape future offerings (customized offerings, up-sells, recommendations, etc.) to a user and to provide reporting data to service providers and studios. Methods and systems of providing viewing recommendations for a user are set forth. This involves collecting usage data related to a session of interaction by the user, processing the user data for the session, and providing feedback regarding the session. The sessions involve multiple stages tracking a user'"'"'s interactions. These include stages such as an inquiry stage, a results stage, a details stage, a selection stage, and a confirmation stage. Usage data is then mined to indicate the content creator of a media asset regardless of the media asset type.

Claims

1. A method for determining media asset usage comprising the steps of:

identifying a content creator of a first media asset of a first type from usage data corresponding to the first media asset;

identifying a second content creator of a second media asset of a second type from usage data corresponding to the second media asset, wherein said first and second types of media assets are different;

performing an lookup operation to identify at least one of the first and second media assets when the usage data corresponding to the at least one of the first and second media asset fails to indicate a corresponding content creator; and

providing results indicating usage of the first and second media assets by content creator.

2. The method of claim 1, where the first and second content creators are the same entity.

3. The method of claim 1, where the first and second content creators are different entities.

4. The method of claim 1, where the content creator is broken down into sub affiliations.

5. The method of claim 1, where the look up operation determines a content creator from the domain name used to access the at least one of the first and second media assets.

6. The method of claim 1, where the look up operation determines a content creator from postings about the at least one of the first and second media assets made to a social networking system.

7. The method of claim 6, where a first posting and a second posting about a same media asset are counted only if a period of time is exceeded between a time the first posting and a time the second posting is made.

8. An apparatus for determining media asset usage comprising:

a means for identifying a content creator of a first media asset of a first type from usage data corresponding to the first media asset;

a means for identifying a second content creator of a second media asset of a second type from usage data corresponding to the second media asset, wherein said first and second types of media assets are different;

a means for performing an lookup operation to identify at least one of the first and second media assets when the usage data corresponding to the at least one of the first and second media asset fails to indicate a corresponding content creator; and

a means for providing results indicating usage of the first and second media assets by content creator.

9. The apparatus of claim 8, where the first and second content creators are the same entity.

10. The apparatus of claim 8, where the first and second content creators are different entities.

11. The apparatus of claim 8, where the content creator is broken down into sub affiliations.

12. The apparatus of claim 8, where the look up means determines a content creator from the domain name used to access the at least one of the first and second media assets.

13. The apparatus of claim 8, where the look up means determines a content creator from postings about the at least one of the first and second media assets made to a social networking system.

14. The apparatus of claim 13, where a first posting and a second posting about a same media asset are counted only if a period of time is exceeded between a time the first posting and a time the second posting is made.