Dynamically Modifying an Execution Environment for Varying Data

• US 20180115592A1
• Filed: 10/21/2016
• Published: 04/26/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 10/21/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Inventors: Samineni, Naga Rohit
• Granted Patent: US 11,611,605 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06N 20/00 Machine learning
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/764 at the destination reformatting of additional data in video clients H04N21/4355
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/80 Responding to QoS
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/01 Protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/252 Processing of multiple end-users' preferences to derive collaborative data
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4661 Deriving a combined profile for a plurality of end-users of the same client, e.g. for family members within a home user profiles in network data switching protocols H04L67/306
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4667 Processing of monitored end-user data, e.g. trend analysis based on the log file of viewer selections
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47217 for controlling playback functions for recorded or on-demand content, e.g. using progress bars, mode or play-point indicators or bookmarks specific graphical features in visual interfaces H04N21/4312
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/485 End-user interface for client configuration

Abstract

Examples of the present disclosure describe systems and methods of dynamically modifying execution environment for varying data or executables. The data or executables may be a multimedia file and the execution environment may be multimedia playback settings. In aspects, content comprising various media items may be received by a client device. The media items may be evaluated to determine a set of characteristics for the media items. The set of characteristics may be compared to a user'"'"'s preferred configuration settings or previously-played media items. Based on the comparison, the set of characteristics may be altered to be consistent with the preferred configuration settings (e.g., a modified set of characteristics may be estimated). The modified media items may then be played under known playback settings. In aspects, the media item under consideration may be played as is using an estimated playback configuration to enable a user-preferable playback experience.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

at least one processor; and

memory coupled to the at least one processor, the memory comprising computer executable instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, performs a method for dynamically modifying multimedia playback settings, the method comprising;

receiving first media content;

determining a first set of playback settings for the first media content;

comparing the first set of playback settings to a second set of playback settings for second media content;

based on the comparison, estimating a third set of playback settings for the first media content;

dynamically applying the third set of playback settings to the first media content; and

executing the first media content using the third set of characteristics data.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the determining a first set of playback settings comprises dynamically analyzing the first media content to identify playback settings for the first media content.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the determining a first set of playback settings comprises evaluating metadata of the media content to identify precomputed characteristic values.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the second set of playback settings are associated with at least one of a previously-played media item, a currently-playing media item, a user profile and a setting configuration file.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the comparing comprises computing differences between one or more values in the first set of playback settings and one or more values in the second set of playback settings.

6. The system of claim 5, wherein estimating the third set of playback settings comprises using the computed differences to modify the one or more values in the first set of playback settings to be within a standard deviation of one or more corresponding values in the second set of playback settings.

7. The system of claim 5, wherein estimating the third set of playback settings comprises using the computed differences to modify the one or more values in the first set of playback settings to be the same as one or more corresponding values in the second set of playback settings.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the estimating is performed by a estimation engine comprising one or more estimators, wherein at least one of the one or more estimators is assigned to evaluate one or more characteristics of the first set of playback settings.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein estimating the third set of playback settings comprises receiving at least one of a selection of media characteristics, a ranking of media characteristics, an assigned weight, and modified characteristic values.

10. The system of claim 1, wherein estimating the third set of playback settings comprises evaluating group-based feedback, wherein the group-based feedback is based on at least one of region, demographics, interests, behaviors and media content.

11. The system of claim 1, further comprising training an estimation model using the third set of characteristics data, wherein the estimation model is configured to estimate a preferred configuration for the first media content.

12. The system of claim 11, further comprising using the third set of characteristics data to update at least one of a user profile and a setting configuration file.

13. A method for dynamically modifying multimedia playback settings, the method comprising:

receiving first media content;

determining at least a first set of playback settings for the first media content;

comparing the first set of playback settings to a second set of playback settings for second media content;

based on the comparison, estimating a third set of playback settings for the first media content;

dynamically applying the third set of playback settings to the first media content; and

executing the first media content using the third set of characteristics data.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the first media content is associated with a media type and the second media content is associated with the media type.

15. The method of claim 13, wherein the first media content comprises at least a first media item associated with a first playback setting in the first set of playback settings and a second media item associated with a second playback setting in the first set of playback settings.

16. The method of claim 13, wherein the determining a first set of playback settings comprises dynamically analyzing the first media content to identify at least one of media characteristics and media characteristics values for the first media content.

17. The method of claim 16, further comprising:

presenting the third set of playback settings in a user interface;

receiving input from the user interface, wherein the input comprises at least one of a selection of one or more settings in the third set of playback settings, a ranking of the media characteristics, and one or more weights assigned to the media characteristics; and

based on the input, modifying the third set of playback settings.

18. The method of claim 17, wherein modifying the third set of playback settings comprises at least one of:

assigning a weight to one or more media characteristics in the input, and re-estimating the third set of playback settings; and

modifying one or more characteristics values in the third set of playback settings.

19. The method of claim 17, further comprising:

adjusting an estimation model based on feedback comprising at least on one of solicited user feedback and unsolicited user feedback; and

using the feedback to improve performance of the estimation model.

20. A system comprising:

at least one processor; and

memory coupled to the at least one processor, the memory comprising computer executable instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, performs a method for dynamically modifying multimedia playback settings, the method comprising;

receiving first media content, the first media content comprising a first media item having a first media type and a second media item having a second media type;

determining a first playback setting for the first media item and a second playback setting for the second media item, wherein the determining the first playback setting and the second playback setting comprises dynamically analyzing the first media item and the second media item to identify at least one of media characteristics and media characteristics values;

comparing the first playback setting to a stored third playback setting having the first media type, wherein the comparing comprises computing differences between one or more values in the first playback setting and one or more values in the stored third playback setting;

comparing the second playback setting to a stored fourth playback setting having the second media type, wherein the comparing comprises computing differences between one or more values in the second playback setting and one or more values in the stored fourth playback setting;

based on the comparisons, estimating a fifth playback setting for the first media item, and estimating a sixth playback setting for the second media item;

when the first media content is executed, dynamically applying the fifth playback setting to the first media content; and

when the second media content is executed, dynamically applying the sixth playback setting to the second media content.