Content recommendation device with user feedback

• US 7,337,458 B2
• Filed: 06/04/2004
• Issued: 02/26/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 06/04/2003
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Original Assignee: RealNetworks GmbH (RealNetworks, Inc.)
• Inventors: Riegler, Andreas, Spechtler, Andreas, Zich, Otto, Schramm, Balthasar, Petro, Oliver, Michelitsch, Stefan, Nemetz, Thomas, Burgstaller, Rainer
• Primary Examiner(s): HARTMAN JR, RONALD D
• Application Number:
  US10/861,154
• Publication Number:
  US 20050076093A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,362 Days
• Field of Search: 725 45- 47, 725/10, 725/24, 700/17, 700/28, 700/47
• US Class Current: 725/46
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4668 for recommending content, e.g. movies

Abstract

A content recommendation device is provided, including a selection engine selects content items from a content item pool and generates a selection list including the selected content items, wherein said selection engine selects the content items from a content item pool according to a user profile, and/or a receiving unit configured to receive a selection list selected from a content item pool according to a user profile, and a user profiling engine that a part of at least one previously generated selection. The user feedback includes explicit and implicit feedback so that a very simple explicit feedback, which gets refined by the corresponding implicit feedback, is possible.

Claims

1. A content recommendation device, comprising:

a selection engine that selects content items from a content item pool and generates a selection list, including the selected content items, wherein said selection engine selects the content items from the content item pool according to a user profile, and

a user profiling engine that updates the user profile based on user feedback to at least one of the content items in the selection list, wherein

said user feedback includes explicit and implicit feedback, said implicit feedback being based on the degree of pressure with which a user is operating an explicit feedback control of the content recommendation device, said implicit feedback accompanying the explicit feedback, and wherein

said selection engine generates a new selection list based on the updated user profile.

2. The content recommendation device according to claim 1, wherein said user feedback is a function of a representation of the explicit feedback weighted with a representation of the implicit feedback.

3. The content recommendation device according to claim 1, wherein said explicit feedback comprises an indication whether a user likes or dislikes a particular content item.

4. The content recommendation device according to claim 1, wherein said implicit feedback comprises a reaction time of a user to operate an explicit feedback control.

5. The content recommendation device according to claim 1, wherein said selection engine generates said selection list based on item attributes that define every content item in a standardized way.

6. The content recommendation device according to claim 1, wherein said selection engine generates said selection list based on business rules that generate a commercially influenced sequence of content items.

7. The content recommendation device according to claim 1, wherein

an arrangement engine that generates a content recommendation list by re-arranging at least a part of content items of the selection list.

8. The content recommendation device according to claim 7, wherein said arrangement engine generates said content recommendation list based on arrangement rules that generate a sequence of content items.

9. The content recommendation device according to claim 7, wherein said arrangement engine generates said content recommendation list based on item attributes that define every content item in a standardized way.

10. The content recommendation device according to claim 8, wherein said arrangement rules combine individual item attributes.

11. The content recommendation device according to claim 7, wherein said arrangement engine generates said content recommendation list based on business rules that generate a sequence of content items.

12. The content recommendation device according to claim 7, wherein said arrangement engine generates said content recommendation list based on a user profile.

13. The content recommendation device according to claim 7, wherein

said user profiling engine generates a user profile based on user feedback to at least one previously output recommendation list.

14. The content recommendation device according to claim 7, wherein said user feedback is used to generate an iteratively refined recommendation list on basis of a reduced content item pool that comprises the content items of the selection list, or a new selection list.

15. The system of claim 1, wherein said explicit feedback is not based on a rating scale that reflects a user'"'"'s strength of interest in a particular content item, but consists of two discrete values, one value indicating that the user liked the particular content item, and one value indicating that the user disliked the content item.

16. A method for content recommendation, comprising:

selecting content items from a content item pool according to a user profile, generating a selection list including the selected content items,

updating the user profile based on user feedback to at least one of the content items in the selection list, wherein said user feedback comprises explicit and implicit feedback, said implicit feedback being based on the degree of pressure with which a user is operating an explicit feedback control of the content recommendation device, said implicit feedback accompanying the explicit feedback, and

generating a new selection list based on the updated user profile.

17. The method according to claim 16, wherein said user feedback is a function of a representation of the explicit feedback weighted with a representation of the implicit feedback.

18. The method according to claim 16, wherein said explicit feedback comprises an indication whether a user likes or dislikes a particular content item.

19. The method according to claim 16, wherein said implicit feedback comprises a reaction time of a user to operate an explicit feedback control.

20. The method according to claim 19, wherein generating said selection list based on item attributes that define every content item in a standardized way.

21. The method according to claim 20, wherein generating said selection list based on business rules that generate a commercially influenced sequence of content items.

22. The method according to claim 21, wherein

generating a content recommendation list by re-arranging at least a part of content items of the selection list.

23. The method according to claim 22, wherein generating said content recommendation list based on arrangement rules that generate a sequence of content items.

24. The method according to claim 23, wherein combining individual item attributes with said arrangement rules.

25. The method according to claim 24, wherein generating said content recommendation list based on business rules that generate a sequence of content items.

26. The method according to claim 25, wherein generating said content recommendation list based on a user profile.

27. The method according to claim 26, wherein generating a user profile based on user feedback to at least one previously output recommendation list.

28. The method according to claim 22, wherein generating said content recommendation list based on item attributes that define every content item in a standardized way.

29. The method of claim 16, wherein said explicit feedback is not based on a rating scale that reflects a user'"'"'s strength of interest in a particular content item, but consists of two discrete values, one value indicating that the user liked the particular content item, and one value indicating that the user disliked the content item.

30. A computer-readable medium including computer program instructions that cause a computer to implement a method of content recommendation, comprising:

receiving a selection list comprising content items selected from a content item pool according to a user profile,

updating a user profile based on user feedback to at least one of the content items in the selection list, wherein said user feedback comprises explicit and implicit feedback, said implicit feedback being based on the degree of pressure with which a user is operating an explicit feedback control of the content recommendation device, and

generating a new selection list based on the updated user profile.

31. A content recommendation device, comprising:

a selection engine that selects content items from a content item pool and generates a selection list, including the selected content items, wherein said selection engine selects the content items from a content item pool according to a user profile, and

a user profiling engine that updates the user profile based on user feedback to at least one of the content items in the selection list, wherein

said user feedback includes explicit and implicit feedback, said implicit feedback being based on a reaction time of the user between being presented with a recommended content item and providing explicit feedback for that content item, said implicit feedback accompanying the explicit feedback, and wherein

said selection engine generates a new selection list based on the updated user profile.

32. A method comprising:

selecting content items from a content item pool according to a user profile,

generating a selection list including the selected content items,

updating the user profile based on user feedback to at least one of the content items in the selection list, wherein said user feedback comprises both explicit and implicit feedback, said implicit feedback comprising a reaction time of a user between being presented with a recommended content item and providing explicit feedback for that content item, and

generating a new selection list based on the updated user profile.

33. A method comprising:

selecting content items from a content item pool according to a user profile,

generating a selection list including the selected content items,

updating the user profile based on user feedback to at least one of the content items in the selection list, wherein said user feedback comprises both explicit and implicit feedback, wherein said explicit feedback is not based on a rating scale that reflects a user'"'"'s strength of interest in a particular content item, but consists of two discrete values, one value indicating that the user liked the particular content item, and one value indicating that the user disliked the content item, and wherein said implicit feedback comprises unconscious user behavior detected with the explicit feedback, and

generating a new selection list based on the updated user profile.