DYNAMIC DISPLAY OF CONTENT CONSUMPTION BY GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION

• US 20160147789A1
• Filed: 12/28/2015
• Published: 05/26/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 03/12/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Google Inc. (Alphabet Inc.)
• Inventors: Sharifi, Matthew, Chen, Annie, Roblek, Dominik
• Granted Patent: US 10,242,029 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/24578 using ranking
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/29 Geographical information databases
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/78 Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9537 Spatial or temporal dependent retrieval, e.g. spatiotemporal queries
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/0637 Strategic management or analysis, e.g. setting a goal or target of an organisation; Planning actions based on goals; Analysis or evaluation of effectiveness of goals
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 29/006 Representation of non-cartographic information on maps, e.g. population distribution, wind direction, radiation levels, air and sea routes
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 29/007 using computer methods

Abstract

This disclosure relates to dynamic display of content consumption by geographic location. A processor recognizes content being consumed by a set of users, and identifies geographic locations of the consumption and a set of characteristics associated with the consumption. The processor further determines at least one filter for a user of the set of users and filters the set of consumption characteristics based on the at least one filter.

The processor further ranks respective consumed content based on a filtered set of consumption characteristics, and displays to the user subsets of the consumed content according to respective rankings and geographic location.

Claims

1. A system, comprising:

a memory; and

a processor, coupled to the memory, to;

recognize content being consumed by a set of users, and identify geographic locations of consumption and a set of consumption characteristics;

determine at least one filter for a user of the set of users;

filter the set of consumption characteristics based on the at least one filter;

rank respective consumed content based on a filtered set of consumption characteristics; and

generate a map displaying to the user subsets of the consumed content according to respective rankings and geographic location.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the set of consumption characteristics comprises at least one of frequency of consumption, devices associated with the consumption, applications associated with the consumption, or a set of demographic data associated with the set of users.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the map is a geographic map.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the map is a heat map.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the consumed content comprises at least one of songs, movies, television shows, internet videos, websites, video games, applications, online articles, electronic books, or online searches.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the processor is further to filter consumed content to be ranked.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein the processor is further to receive a set of user preferences regarding the consumed content to be ranked or the subset of the consumption characteristics employed in the ranking.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the processor is further to maintain historical maps of subsets of consumed content.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein to generate the map the processor is further to generate the map as a custom map based on a rendering device'"'"'s capabilities.

10. The system of claim 1, wherein the processor is further to:

compare at least one of consumed content or a fingerprint of consumed content to a set of known content; and

recognize, based on the comparison, the consumed content.

11. A method, comprising:

recognizing, by a processor, content being consumed by a set of users;

identifying, by the processor, a geographic location associated with the content being consumed and a set of content consumption characteristics;

ranking, by the processor, respective consumed content based on a filtered set of the content consumption characteristics; and

generating, by the processor, a map displaying subsets of the consumed content according to respective rankings and geographic location.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein identifying characteristics of content consumption comprises identifying at least one of frequency of consumption, devices associated with the consumption, or applications associated with the consumption.

13. The method of claim 11, further comprising enabling setting a granularity of display of the consumed content.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein enabling setting the granularity of display comprises enabling setting the granularity of display to at least one of a globe, a continent, a country, a region, a state, or a city.

15. The method of claim 11, further comprising filtering at least one of consumed content to be ranked or the subset of the content consumption characteristics employed in the rankings.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein the filtering comprises filtering the at least one of consumed content to be ranked or the subset of the content consumption characteristics employed in the rankings based at least in part on a set of user preferences.

17. A method, comprising:

receiving, by a processor, a request regarding consumption of content in one or more geographic areas;

recognizing, by the processor, the consumption of content in the one or more geographic areas;

ranking, by the processor, subsets of the consumed content as a function of user consumption; and

generating, by the processor, a map displaying the subsets of the consumed content according to respective rankings of the subsets of consumed content and geographic location of respective consumption.

18. The method of claim 17, further comprising providing a set of granularities of view of the consumed content, the set of granularities of view including at least one of a continent, a country, a region, a state, or a city.

19. The method of claim 17, wherein receiving the request regarding consumption of content comprises receiving a request regarding consumption of at least one of songs, movies, television shows, internet videos, websites, video games, applications, online articles, electronic books, or online searches.

20. The method of claim 17, further comprising determining a set filters and filtering the consumed content to be ranked.

21. The method of claim 17, further comprising generating the map as a custom map based on a rendering device'"'"'s capabilities.

22. The method of claim 17, further comprising generating the map in real-time as a custom map based on user preferences.