SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO PRESENT CONTENT

• US 20160162454A1
• Filed: 05/08/2015
• Published: 06/09/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 12/04/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Cynny Spa
• Original Assignee: Cynny Spa
• Inventors: Bargagni, Stefano, Marras, Roberto
• Granted Patent: US 9,524,278 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/00 Information retrieval; Database structures therefor; File system structures therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/748 Hypervideo linking data to content, e.g. by linking an URL to a video object in the context of video distribution systems H04N21/858
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/011 Emotion or mood input determined on the basis of sensed human body parameters such as pulse, heart rate or beat, temperature of skin, facial expressions, iris, voice pitch, brain activity patterns
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/0383 Remote input, i.e. interface arrangements in which the signals generated by a pointing device are transmitted to a PC at a remote location, e.g. to a PC in a LAN
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0484 for the control of specific functions or operations, e.g. selecting or manipulating an object, an image or a displayed text element, setting a parameter value or selecting a range
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/103 Formatting, i.e. changing of presentation of documents automatic justification G06F40/189; automatic line break hyphenation G06F40/191
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/14 Tree-structured documents parsing G06F40/205; validation G06F40/226
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/197 Version control for software G06F8/71
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/00 Network arrangements, protocols or services for supporting real-time applications in data packet communication real-time or near real-time messaging, e.g. instant messaging [IM] H04L51/04; selective video distribution H04N21/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/612 for unicast
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/762 at the source reformatting of additional data in video distribution servers H04N21/2355
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/535 Tracking the activity of the user network monitoring arrangements H04L43/00; recording of computer activity G06F11/34
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/00 Selective content distribution, e.g. interactive television or video on demand [VOD] real-time bi-directional transmission of motion video data H04N7/14 ; broadcast or conference over packet switching networks H04L12/18
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/854 Content authoring

Abstract

A content presentation system in which a set of content items, which may include static stored content documents and/or live content streaming from computing devices, is provided by a web channel engine to a web channel. A rules engine (e.g., of a web channel server or a web channel presenter) is configured to sequentially present some of the contents to a user in a video form in an automated way, based on real-time sensor data of user devices and/or interactions of the users with the web channel, including users who are provided with permissions to edit the content, look and feel of the web channel, and users who watch the web channel without editing privileges.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

collecting, over a network, by a web server, interaction data from a plurality of computing devices of a plurality of users accessing a web location, the interaction data comprising sensor data from the plurality of computing devices, and data regarding interactions of the users with user interfaces configured to present content accessed at the web location; and

sending, over the network, by the web server, for real-time presentation in the user interfaces, content components in a sequence determined based on applying a set of rules to the interaction data.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the presentation of the content components is in a layout determined based on applying the set of rules.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the sequence is further based on configuration parameters identified by a subset of the users having an editing privilege for editing content.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein the content components include real-time content streaming from computing devices of a subset of the users.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the sequence is further based on real-time sensor data from a computing device of a first user indicating a state of the first user.

6. The method of claim 5, further comprising determining a priority of interest of the content components based on the interaction data, wherein the sequence is further based on the priority of interest.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the sensor data includes at least one of location, physical orientation in space of devices used by the users, heart-beat, skin-conductivity, or biometric data.

8. A non-transitory computer storage medium storing instructions, which when executed, cause a computing device of a user to:

communicate, over a network, by the computing device, with a web location to receive content;

receive, by the computing device, content components accessed from the web location; and

present, by a web channel presenter, in a user interface on the computing device, the content components in a manner determined by applying a set of rules to interaction data, the interaction data comprising data regarding real-time interaction of the user with the user interface while viewing content from the web location, and the interaction data further comprising data regarding interactions of other users while receiving content from the web location.

9. The non-transitory computer storage medium of claim 8, wherein the instructions further cause the computing device to receive, over the network, the data regarding interactions of other users.

10. The non-transitory computer storage medium of claim 8, wherein the content components are determined based on presentation configuration data provided from content editors.

11. The non-transitory computer storage medium of claim 8, wherein the content components comprise streaming data obtained from a content source.

12. The non-transitory computer storage medium of claim 8, wherein the presenting the content components comprises selecting a next frame to present to the user based on the set of rules.

13. The non-transitory computer storage medium of claim 12, wherein the selecting the next frame is further based on layout recognition of frames previously presented to the user.

14. The non-transitory computer storage medium of claim 12, wherein the selecting the next frame is based on a number of times a previous frame is viewed by the other users.

15. A server, comprising:

at least one microprocessor; and

memory storing instructions configured to instruct the at least one microprocessor to;

collect, over a network, interaction data from a plurality of computing devices of a plurality of users accessing a web location, the interaction data comprising sensor data from the plurality of computing devices, and data regarding interactions of the users with user interfaces configured to present content; and

send, over the network, for presentation in the user interfaces, content components in a sequence determined based on applying a set of rules to the interaction data.

16. The server of claim 15, wherein the sending of the sequence is further based on configuration parameters identified by a subset of the users having an editing privilege for editing content provided from the web location.

17. The server of claim 15, wherein the content components include streaming of data from computing devices of a subset of the users.

18. The server of claim 15, wherein the sequence is further based on sensor data from a computing device of a first user indicating a physiological state of the first user.

19. The server of claim 15, wherein the instructions are further configured to instruct the at least one microprocessor to determine a priority of the content components based on the interaction data, wherein the sequence is further based on the priority.

20. The server of claim 15, wherein the sending the content components comprises selecting a next frame to send based on a number of times a prior frame is viewed by at least a subset of the users accessing the web location.