COMBINED ACTIVITIES HISTORY ON A DEVICE

• US 20140310283A1
• Filed: 10/02/2012
• Published: 10/16/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 10/04/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Google Inc. (Alphabet Inc.)
• Inventors: Laligand, Pierre-Yves, Koh, Justin, Bragg, Richard William, Leung, Stephen Shiu Lam
• Granted Patent: US 9,858,329 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/737
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/285 Clustering or classification
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/00 Commerce
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/01 Social networking

Abstract

A method includes performing a first activity with content associated with a first content type selected from the group consisting of television programming, online content, on-device application, search queries, information views, and other content types described using a predefined format, wherein the predefined format includes an action specification and a content specification; logging the first activity in accordance with the predefined format; performing a second activity with content associated with a second content type selected from the group consisting of television programming, online content, on-device applications, search queries, information view'"'"'s, and other content types described using the predefined format, the second content type being distinct from the first content type; and logging the second activity in accordance with the predefined format.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

at a client device having one or more processors and memory storing one or more programs executed by the device;

performing a first activity with content associated with a first content type selected from the group consisting of television programming, online content, on-device application, search queries, information views, and other content types described using a predefined format, wherein the predefined format includes an action specification and a content specification;

logging the first activity in accordance with the predefined format;

performing a second activity with content associated with a second content type selected from the group consisting of television programming, online content, on-device applications, search queries, information views, and other content types described using the predefined format, the second content type being distinct from the first content type; and

logging the second activity in accordance with the predefined format.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the action specification and the content specification are formatted in Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) format.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the first content type is online content.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the first activity includes displaying an online content item.

5. The method of claim 3, further comprising mapping the first activity to a first display name based on a domain of an online content item associated with the first activity.

6. The method of claim 3, further comprising:

logging multiple activities, each of which is respectively associated with an online content item, the respective associated online content items having a common domain; and

grouping the multiple activities together based on the common domain.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the second content type is television programming.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the second activity includes displaying a television channel.

9. The method of claim 7, further comprising mapping the second activity to a second display name based on the television channel associated with the second activity.

10. The method of claim 7, further comprising:

logging multiple activities associated with a common television channel; and

grouping the multiple activities together based on the common television channel.

11. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

performing a third activity on content associated with a third content type selected from the group consisting of television programming, online content, on-device applications, search queries, information views, and other content types described using the predefined format, the third content type being distinct from the first content type and from the second content type; and

logging the third activity in accordance with the predefined format.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the third content type is on-device applications.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the third activity includes activating an on-device application.

14. A method, comprising:

at a client device having one or more processors and memory storing one or more programs executed by the device;

retrieving from a log a first set of activities associated with content of a first content type, the first content type selected from the group consisting of television programming, online content, on-device applications, search queries, information views, and other content types described using a predefined format, wherein the predefined format includes an action specification and a content specification, and a second set of activities associated with content of a second content type distinct from the first content type, the second content type selected from the group consisting of television programming, online content, on-device applications, search queries, information views, and other content types described using the predefined format, wherein the first set of activities and the second set of activities are logged in accordance with the predefined format; and

displaying concurrently information based on the first set of activities and the second set of activities.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein the action specification and the content specification are formatted in URI format.

16. The method of claim 14, wherein displaying concurrently information based on the first set of activities and the second set of activities comprises displaying a chronologically ordered list of the first set of activities and the second set of activities.

17. The method of claim 14, wherein displaying concurrently information based on the first set of activities and the second set of activities comprises displaying a most recent list that includes a predefined number of content items associated with the most recent activities amongst the first set of activities and the second set of activities.

18. The method of claim 14, wherein displaying concurrently information based on the first set of activities and the second set of activities comprises displaying a most frequent list that includes a predefined number of content items associated with the most activities amongst the first set of activities and the second set of activities.

20. The method of claim 14, wherein the first content type is online content and the first set of activities includes a subset of activities that are associated with respective online content items having a common domain;

and

displaying concurrently information based on the first set of activities and the second set of entries includes displaying information corresponding to the subset of activities grouped together based on the common domain.

22. The method of claim 14, wherein the second content type is television programming and the second set of activities includes a subset of activities that are associated with a common television channel;

and

displaying concurrently information based on the first set of activities and the second set of activities includes displaying information corresponding to the subset of activities grouped together based on the common television channel.

23. The method of claim 14, further comprising:

retrieving from a log a third set of activities associated with content of a third content type distinct from the first content type and the second content type, wherein the third set of entries is logged in accordance with the predefined format; and

displaying concurrently information based on the first set of activities and the second set of activities and the third set of activities.

24. The method of claim 23, wherein the third content type is on-device applications and the third activity includes activating an on-device application.

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25. A system, comprising:

one or more processing units; and

memory storing one or more programs to be executed by the one or more processing units;

the one or more programs comprising instructions for;

performing a first activity with content associated with a first content type selected from the group consisting of television programming, online content, on-device application, search queries, information views, and other content types described using a predefined format, wherein the predefined format includes an action specification and a content specification;

logging the first activity in accordance with the predefined format;

performing a second activity with content associated with a second content type selected from the group consisting of television programming, online content, on-device applications, search queries, information views, and other content types described using the predefined format, the second content type being distinct from the first content type; and

logging the second activity in accordance with the predefined format.

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