Fantasy Sports Interleaver

• US 20140349750A1
• Filed: 05/22/2014
• Published: 11/27/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 05/22/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Adeia Media Holdings LLC (Adeia Inc.)
• Original Assignee: David A. Divine, David S. Thompson
• Inventors: Thompson, David S., Divine, David A.
• Granted Patent: US 9,056,253 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 463/31
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/537 using indicators, e.g. showing the condition of a game character on screen
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/828 Managing virtual sport teams
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/308 Details of the user interface
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/8052 Ball team management
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2358 for generating different versions, e.g. for different recipient devices
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/254 Management at additional data server, e.g. shopping server, rights management server arrangements for maintenance or administration in data networks H04L41/00; network services using third party service providers H04L67/53
• 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 21/812 involving advertisement data advertising per se G06Q30/02
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8126 involving additional data, e.g. news, sports, stocks, weather forecasts

Abstract

Techniques for configuring and operating a fantasy sports interleaver service are described herein. In some examples, a content feed is associated with each of a plurality of games (e.g., a plurality of football games). A plurality of clips may be created from each content feed. Fantasy point information may be associated with at least some of the clips. For example, if a football quarterback throws a touchdown pass within a clip, fantasy points may be awarded to the quarterback and/or assigned to the clip. The clip may be transmitted to a client device of a user of the fantasy sports interleaver service based at least in part upon a fantasy sports account of the user (e.g., based upon an athlete on the user'"'"'s fantasy roster that is depicted in the clip).

Claims

1. A method comprising:

under control of one or more processors configured with executable instructions;

determining one or more topics of interest to a user based at least in part on a fantasy sports account of the user;

identifying multiple content segments that are relevant to the one or more topics of interest to the user; and

causing the multiple content segments to be served to a client device of the user.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein determining one or more topics of interest to the user based at least in part on the fantasy sports account of the user comprises accessing a subscriber profile of the user, the subscriber profile of the user including one or more subscriptions to topics of interest to the user.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the topics of interest to the user comprise athletes on a roster of a fantasy team associated with the fantasy sports account of the user.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the topics of interest further comprise at least one of:

one or more athletes on a fantasy sports team of a current opponent of the user;

or

one or more athletes on a fantasy sports team of another user in a fantasy sports league of the user.

5. The method of claim 3, wherein the topics of interest further comprise at least one of:

one or more favorite teams of the user;

one or more favorite players of the user;

teams associated with a location of the user;

one or more favorite cheerleaders of the user;

one or more favorite cheerleading squads of the user;

one or more favorite analysts of the user;

or

one or more social connections of the user.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising, prior to causing the multiple content segments to be served to the client device of the user, prioritizing an order in which to serve the multiple content segments based at least in part on one or more user preferences.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising, prior to causing the multiple content segments to be served, adding the multiple content segments to a segment buffer of content segments to be served to the client device.

8. The method of claim 7, further comprising:

receiving a request to reorder the content segments in the buffer; and

reordering the content segments in the buffer responsive to receiving the request to reorder the content segments.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising interleaving one or more ads between the multiple content segments.

10. A method comprising:

under control of one or more processors configured with executable instructions;

receiving content from multiple sources;

segmenting the content into content segments, each content segment depicting a portion of a sporting event;

tagging each content segment with one or more tags;

matching one or more of the content segments with a subscriber profile based at least in part on;

the one or more tags of each content segment; and

one or more topics to which to the subscriber profile includes a subscription; and

causing the one or more content segments to be served to a client device of the user.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the one or more topics to which to the subscriber profile includes the subscription are based at least in part on a fantasy sports account of the user.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the one or more topics to which to the subscriber profile includes the subscription comprise athletes on a roster of a fantasy team associated with the fantasy sports account of the user.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the one or more topics to which to the subscriber profile includes the subscription further comprise at least one of:

one or more athletes on a fantasy sports team of a current opponent of the user;

or

one or more athletes on a fantasy sports team of another user in a fantasy sports league of the user.

14. The method of claim 12, wherein the one or more topics to which to the subscriber profile includes the subscription further comprise at least one of:

one or more favorite teams of the user;

one or more favorite players of the user;

teams associated with a location of the user;

one or more favorite cheerleaders of the user;

one or more favorite cheerleading squads of the user;

one or more favorite analysts of the user;

or

one or more social connections of the user.

15. The method of claim 10, further comprising, prior to causing the one or more content segments to be served, adding the one or more content segments to a segment buffer of content segments to be served to the client device.

16. The method of claim 15, further comprising:

receiving a request to reorder the content segments in the segment buffer; and

reordering the content segments in the segment buffer responsive to receiving the request to reorder the content segments.

17. The method of claim 10, further comprising interleaving one or more ads with the one or more content segments served to the client device.

18. A system comprising:

one or more processors; and

memory communicatively coupled to the one or more processors, the memory storing;

a content store including multiple content segments, each content segment being tagged with one or more tags;

a subscription store including multiple subscriber profiles, each subscriber profile including subscriptions to one or more topics, the subscriptions of each subscriber profile being based at least in part on a fantasy sports account; and

executable instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, configure the one or more processors to perform operations comprising;

identifying, based at least in part on the tags, content segments from among the multiple content segments that are applicable to one or more of the subscriber profiles; and

causing the identified content segments to be served to client devices of the respective subscriber profiles to which the content segments are applicable.

19. The system of claim 18, wherein the one or more topics to which to the subscriber profile includes the subscriptions comprise athletes on a roster of a fantasy team associated with the fantasy sports account.

20. A method comprising:

under control of one or more processors configured with executable instructions;

identifying multiple content segments that are relevant to the one or more topics of interest to a user from a pool of available content segments; and

adding the one or more content segments to a segment buffer of content segments to be served to the client device, the content segments in the segment buffer being in a priority order based at least in part on a fantasy sports account of the user; and

causing the multiple content segments to be served to a client device of the user in the priority order.

21. The method of claim 20, wherein the identifying, comprises:

matching one or more of the content segments with a subscriber profile of the user based at least in part on;

the one or more tags of each content segment; and

one or more topics to which to the subscriber profile includes a subscription.

22. The method of claim 21, further comprising:

receiving a request to reorder the content segments in the segment buffer; and

reordering the content segments in the segment buffer responsive to receiving the request to reorder the content segments.