Displaying a Summary of Media Content Items

• US 20150370902A1
• Filed: 06/20/2014
• Published: 12/24/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 06/20/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Google Inc. (Alphabet Inc.)
• Inventors: Oztaskent, Ant, Volovich, Yaroslav, Trollope, Ingrid McAulay
• Granted Patent: US 9,805,125 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/335 Filtering based on additional data, e.g. user or group profiles filtering in web context G06F16/9535, G06F16/9536
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/433 using audio data
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/435 Filtering based on additional data, e.g. user or group profiles
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/735 Filtering based on additional data, e.g. user or group profiles
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/738 Presentation of query results
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation

Abstract

A method at a server system includes: detecting presentation of a media content item, identifying the media content item and one or more entities related to the media content item, determining respective levels of interest in the identified entities based on one or more signals, selecting a subset of the entities based on the determined levels of interest, and sending to a client device of a user, for presenting at the client device, the selected subset of the entities.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

at a server;

detecting presentation of a media content item;

identifying the media content item and one or more entities related to the media content item;

determining respective levels of interest in the identified entities based on one or more signals;

selecting a subset of the entities based on the determined levels of interest; and

sending to a client device of a user, for presenting at the client device, the selected subset of the entities.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the one or more signals comprise one or more of:

respective volumes of mentions of respective entities in documents, respective volumes of queries for respective entities, respective volumes of queries for respective media content items, an aggregate of query histories of users, and an aggregate of histories of media consumption by users.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the signals comprise one or more of:

a location of the user, demographic characteristics of the user, a query history of the user, and a media consumption history of the user;

wherein determining respective levels of interest in the identified entities based on one or more signals comprises determining respective levels of interest in the identified entities with respect to the user; and

wherein selecting a subset of the entities comprises selecting a subset of the entities based on the determined levels of interest with respect to the user.

4. A method, comprising:

at a server;

detecting presentation of a plurality of media content items;

identifying the media content items and, for each respective media content item, one or more entities related to the respective media content item;

determining respective levels of interest, with respect to a defined time period, in the identified entities based on one or more signals;

selecting a subset of the entities based on the determined levels of interest with respect to the defined time period; and

sending to a client device of a user, for presenting at the client device, the selected subset of the entities.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the defined time period is any of:

a defined hour, a defined day, a defined month, or a defined time range.

6. A server system, comprising:

memory;

one or more processors; and

one or more programs stored in the memory and configured for execution by the one or more processors, the one or more programs including instructions for;

detecting presentation of a media content item;

identifying the media content item and one or more entities related to the media content item;

determining respective levels of interest in the identified entities based on one or more signals;

selecting a subset of the entities based on the determined levels of interest; and

sending to a client device of a user, for presenting at the client device, the selected subset of the entities.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein the one or more signals comprise one or more of:

respective volumes of mentions of respective entities in documents, respective volumes of queries for respective entities, respective volumes of queries for respective media content items, an aggregate of query histories of users, and an aggregate of histories of media consumption by users.

8. The system of claim 6, wherein the signals comprise one or more of:

a location of the user, demographic characteristics of the user, a query history of the user, and a media consumption history of the user;

wherein the instructions for determining respective levels of interest in the identified entities based on one or more signals comprises instructions for determining respective levels of interest in the identified entities with respect to the user; and

wherein the instructions for selecting a subset of the entities comprises instructions for selecting a subset of the entities based on the determined levels of interest with respect to the user.