EXPERIENCE LOG

• US 20140114917A1
• Filed: 10/18/2012
• Published: 04/24/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 10/18/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Mobile Communications AB (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Karlsson, David
• Granted Patent: US 9,389,832 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/634
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/30 Monitoring
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3058 Monitoring arrangements for monitoring environmental properties or parameters of the computing system or of the computing system component, e.g. monitoring of power, currents, temperature, humidity, position, vibrations thermal management in cooling arrangements of a computing system G06F1/206
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3438 monitoring of user actions tracking the activity of the user H04L67/535
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3476 Data logging G06F11/14, G06F11/2205 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/447 Temporal browsing, e.g. timeline
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/904 Browsing; Visualisation therefor for navigating the web G06F16/954; browsing optimisation for the web G06F16/957
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 17/40 Data acquisition and logging for input to computer G06F3/00
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2201/86 Event-based monitoring
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 7/00 Methods or arrangements for processing data by operating upon the order or content of the data handled logic circuits H03K19/00

Abstract

A device may play a content item and detect an event while the content item is playing. The device may also determine a position, within the content item, at which the content item is playing when the event is detected, to obtain position information. In addition, the device may associate the position information with information obtained based on the event to generate a log entry. The device may update an experience log with the log entry.

Claims

1. A device comprising:

a memory to store instructions;

a processor to execute the instructions to;

play a content item;

detect an event at an end of a portion, of the content item, that has been played;

determine a position, within the content item, of the end of the portion, to obtain position information;

obtain engagement information that indicates a user'"'"'s level of engagement with the content item based on information about the event;

associate the position information with the engagement information and information identifying the portion to generate a log entry; and

update an experience log with the log entry.

2. The device of claim 1, wherein the content item includes:

an audio content item;

a video content item;

or an electronic book.

3. The device of claim 1, wherein the content item includes an electronic book, and the information about the event indicates at least one of:

how many times a page of the electronic book has been displayed;

how many times a sentence in a page of the electronic book has been displayed;

how long a user has been looking at a page of the electronic book;

how long a user has been looking at a sentence of the electronic book; and

how long a page of the electronic book has been displayed.

4. The device of claim 3, wherein the content item includes one of an audio content item and a video content item, and the information about the event indicates at least one of:

how many times a segment of the content item has been replayed;

a volume level at which the content item is played;

whether a user is wearing headphone;

whether a user is looking at a display;

or

whether a user fast forwards over another portion of the content item.

5. The device of claim 1, wherein the device comprises:

a smart phone;

a laptop computer;

a game console;

a tablet computer;

compact disc (CD) player;

or a digital video disc (DVD) player.

6. The device of claim 1, wherein when the processor associates the position information with the engagement information, the processor further executes the instructions to:

associate the position information with the information identifying the portion and information about a component that generated the event.

7. The device of claim 1, further comprising a network interface,

wherein when the processor updates the experience log, the processor further executes the instructions to send the log entry to a network device via the network interface.

8. The device of claim 1, further comprising a network interface, wherein the processor is further configured to execute the instructions to:

download the content item from a first device via the network interface;

or

download the experience log from either the first device or a second device.

9. The device of claim 1, wherein the processor is further configured to execute the instructions to:

receive user input indicating a position on a graphical component representing the experience log, the graphical component being displayed via the device.

10. The device of claim 9, wherein the processor is further configured to execute the instructions to one of:

play the content item starting at a location, within the content item, corresponding to the position on the graphical component;

or

display information in an entry, from the experience log, whose position information matches the position on the graphical component.

11. A method comprising:

playing a content item;

detecting an event while the content item is playing;

determining a position, within the content item, at which the content item is playing when the event is detected, to obtain position information;

associating the position information with information obtained based on the event to generate a log entry; and

updating an experience log with the log entry.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the content item includes:

an audio book;

an electronic book;

or a video.

13. The method of claim 11, wherein the content item includes an electronic book, and the information indicates at least one of:

how many times a user has viewed each page of the electronic book;

how many times a user has viewed a sentence in a page of the electronic book;

how long a user has been looking at each page of the electronic book;

how many times a user has been looking at each sentence of the electronic book; and

how long each page of the electronic book has been displayed.

14. The method of claim 11, wherein the content item includes an audio book, and the information indicates at least one of:

how much time a user spent on a segment of the audio book;

how many times a segment of the audio book has been replayed;

a volume level at which the audio book is played;

whether a user is wearing headphone or ear buds while the audio book has been playing;

or

whether a user has fast forwarded over another portion of the audio book.

15. The method of claim 11, wherein associating the position information with the information obtained based on the event includes:

combining the position information and an identifier for a component that generated the event.

16. The method of claim 11, wherein updating the experience log includes:

sending the log entry to a network device that updates the experience log with the log entry.

17. The method of claim 11, further comprising:

downloading the content item from a network device;

or

downloading the experience log either from the network device or from another device.

18. The method of claim 11, further comprising:

receiving user input indicating a position on a graphical user interface, which represents the experience log, that is displayed to a user.

19. The method of claim 18, further comprising:

playing the content item starting at a location, within the content item, corresponding to the position on the graphical component;

or

displaying information in an entry, from the experience log, whose position information identifies the position on the graphical component.

20. A computer-readable storage device, comprising computer executable instructions, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to:

download a content item to a device;

play the content item at the device;

detect an event at an end of a portion, of the content item, that was played;

determine a position, within the content item, of an end of the portion when the event is detected, to obtain position information;

associate the position information with information obtained based on the event, and information identifying the portion, to generate a log entry; and

update an experience log with the log entry.