Determining Streaming Content User Consumption
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1. A method comprising:
- detecting, by a computer, a user action on a user device, wherein the detected user action is independent of one or more media objects transmitted via a computer network to the user device;
retrieving, by a computer, from a media object server, one or more media object descriptors for the one or more media objects;
correlating, by a computer, the detected user action and the one or more retrieved media descriptors;
responsive to the correlation meeting a first threshold, determining, by a computer, independent of monitoring presentation of the one or more media objects at the user device, a degree of confidence that the user is attentive to at least one of the one or more media objects; and
recording, by a computer, the user action, the one or more correlated media object descriptors, and the degree of confidence into one or more digital results in computer memory.
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Abstract
Confidence of attentiveness of a consumer of a media object on a media playback device is estimated by detecting a user action performed on a mobile computing device while or soon after the media objects are presented; responsive to the user action detection, retrieving descriptors for the media object; correlating the detected user action and the descriptors; if sufficiently correlated, determining a degree of confidence that the user is attentive to the media object; and recording the one user action, the media object descriptors, and the degree of confidence into digital results into computer memory.
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18 Claims
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1. A method comprising:
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detecting, by a computer, a user action on a user device, wherein the detected user action is independent of one or more media objects transmitted via a computer network to the user device; retrieving, by a computer, from a media object server, one or more media object descriptors for the one or more media objects; correlating, by a computer, the detected user action and the one or more retrieved media descriptors; responsive to the correlation meeting a first threshold, determining, by a computer, independent of monitoring presentation of the one or more media objects at the user device, a degree of confidence that the user is attentive to at least one of the one or more media objects; and recording, by a computer, the user action, the one or more correlated media object descriptors, and the degree of confidence into one or more digital results in computer memory. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
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7. A computer program product comprising:
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a tangible, computer-readable memory device which is not a propagating signal per se, accessible by a processor; program instructions embodied by the memory device to cause the processor to, when executed, perform steps comprising; detect a user action on a user device, wherein the detected user action is independent of one or more media objects transmitted via a computer network to the user device; retrieve from a media object server, one or more media object descriptors for the one or more media objects; correlate the detected user action and the one or more retrieved media descriptors; responsive to the correlation meeting a first threshold, determine, independent of monitoring presentation of the one or more media objects at the user device, a degree of confidence that the user is attentive to at least one of the one or more media objects; and record the user action, the one or more correlated media object descriptors, and the degree of confidence into one or more digital results in computer memory. - View Dependent Claims (8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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13. A system comprising:
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a computer processor for executing program instructions; a tangible, computer-readable memory device which is not a propagating signal per se, accessible by the processor; program instructions embodied by the memory device to cause the processor to, when executed, perform steps comprising; detect a user action on a user device, wherein the detected user action is independent of one or more media objects transmitted via a computer network to the user device; retrieve from a media object server, one or more media object descriptors for the one or more media objects; correlate the detected user action and the one or more retrieved media descriptors; responsive to the correlation meeting a first threshold, determine, independent of monitoring presentation of the one or more media objects at the user device, a degree of confidence that the user is attentive to at least one of the one or more media objects; and record the user action, the one or more correlated media object descriptors, and the degree of confidence into one or more digital results in computer memory. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16, 17, 18)
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