Filtering Content Based on User Mobile Network and Data-Plan

• US 20190327157A1
• Filed: 06/11/2019
• Published: 10/24/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 08/19/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Inventors: Carter, Bernadette Alexia, Meyer, Daniel Frederick
• Granted Patent: US 11,218,390 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/24578 using ranking
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/0805 by checking availability
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/805 QOS or priority aware

Abstract

A system comprising a processor and a memory storing instructions that, when executed, cause the system to receive a content request from a client device of a user; determine level of network availability on the client device and data plan availability associated with the user; determine one or more content filtering factors to filter the content for display to the user; filter the content based on the one or more filtering factors, the level of network availability, and the data plan availability; and provide filtered content for display on the client device of the user.

Claims

1. (canceled)

2. A computer-implemented method comprising:

determining that a quality a wireless network has improved;

based on determining that the quality of the wireless network has improved, disabling a mode in which content items that are to be transmitted to a mobile device is filtered, then transmitting one or more previously-filtered content item to the mobile device for output; and

providing, for output, one or more of the previously-filtered content items.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the mode is disabled at one or more content provisioning servers that service the mobile device.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein the mode is disabled at the mobile device.

5. The method of claim 2, wherein the content items are social media posts.

6. The method of claim 2, comprising, based on determining that the quality of the wireless network has improved, rescoring the previously-filtered content items.

7. The method of claim 2, wherein the quality of the network is determined to be improved in response to a request, by the mobile device, for content items to be transmitted to the mobile device.

8. The method of claim 2, wherein the previously-filtered content items comprise multimedia items of a predetermined size or larger.

9. A system comprising:

one or more computers and one or more storage devices storing instructions that are operable, when executed by the one or more computers, to cause the one or more computers to perform operations comprising;

determining that a quality a wireless network has improved;

based on determining that the quality of the wireless network has improved, disabling a mode in which content items that are to be transmitted to a mobile device is filtered, then transmitting one or more previously-filtered content item to the mobile device for output; and

providing, for output, one or more of the previously-filtered content items.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein the mode is disabled at one or more content provisioning servers that service the mobile device.

11. The system of claim 9, wherein the mode is disabled at the mobile device.

12. The system of claim 9, wherein the content items are social media posts.

13. The system of claim 9, wherein the operations comprise, based on determining that the quality of the wireless network has improved, rescoring the previously-filtered content items.

14. The system of claim 9, wherein the quality of the network is determined to be improved in response to a request, by the mobile device, for content items to be transmitted to the mobile device.

15. The system of claim 9, wherein the previously-filtered content items comprise multimedia items of a predetermined size or larger.

16. A non-transitory computer readable medium having stored therein instructions, that when executed by a computing system, cause the computing system to perform functions comprising:

determining that a quality a wireless network has improved;

based on determining that the quality of the wireless network has improved, disabling a mode in which content items that are to be transmitted to a mobile device is filtered, then transmitting one or more previously-filtered content item to the mobile device for output; and

providing, for output, one or more of the previously-filtered content items.

17. The medium of claim 16, wherein the mode is disabled at one or more content provisioning servers that service the mobile device.

18. The medium of claim 16, wherein the mode is disabled at the mobile device.

19. The medium of claim 16, wherein the content items are social media posts.

20. The medium of claim 16, wherein the operations comprise, based on determining that the quality of the wireless network has improved, rescoring the previously-filtered content items.

21. The medium of claim 16, wherein the quality of the network is determined to be improved in response to a request, by the mobile device, for content items to be transmitted to the mobile device.