Generating content recommendations from an online game
First Claim
1. A content recommendation method comprising:
- retrieving contacts for a player of a content recommendation game;
listing content associated with the retrieved contacts;
prompting the player in response to a selection of a particular one of the listed content to identify a specific one of the retrieved contacts as a source associated with the particular one of the listed content; and
,recommending the particular one of the listed content to the identified specific one of the retrieved contacts when the player has incorrectly identified the specific one of the retrieved contacts as a source associated with the particular one of the listed content, and otherwise awarding points in the game to a game score for the player for having correctly identified the specific one of the retrieved contacts as a source associated with the particular one of the listed content.
4 Assignments
0 Petitions
Accused Products
Abstract
A content recommendation method can include retrieving contacts for a player of a content recommendation game and listing content associated with the retrieved contacts and prompting the player in response to a selection of a particular one of the listed content to identify a specific one of the retrieved contacts as a source associated with the particular one of the listed content. The particular one of the listed content can be recommended to the identified specific one of the retrieved contacts when the player has incorrectly identified the specific one of the retrieved contacts as a source associated with the particular one of the listed content. Otherwise, the player can be awarded points in the game to a game score for the player for having correctly identified the specific one of the retrieved contacts as a source associated with the particular one of the listed content.
-
Citations
13 Claims
-
1. A content recommendation method comprising:
-
retrieving contacts for a player of a content recommendation game; listing content associated with the retrieved contacts; prompting the player in response to a selection of a particular one of the listed content to identify a specific one of the retrieved contacts as a source associated with the particular one of the listed content; and
,recommending the particular one of the listed content to the identified specific one of the retrieved contacts when the player has incorrectly identified the specific one of the retrieved contacts as a source associated with the particular one of the listed content, and otherwise awarding points in the game to a game score for the player for having correctly identified the specific one of the retrieved contacts as a source associated with the particular one of the listed content. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4)
-
-
5. A social media data processing system configured for generating content recommendations from an online game, the system comprising:
-
a host computing platform configured for communicative coupling to multiple different clients over a computer communications network, each of the clients comprising a browser providing access to interact with content and corresponding meta-data for the content; a social media/content repository coupled to the host computing platform managing tags applied through the clients to content viewed within respective ones of the browsers; and
,a content recommendation game executing in the host computing platform, the game comprising program code enabled to retrieve contacts for a player of the game, to list content associated with the retrieved contacts, to prompt the player in response to a selection of a particular one of the listed content to identify a specific one of the retrieved contacts as a source associated with the particular one of the listed content, and to recommend the particular one of the listed content to the identified specific one of the retrieved contacts when the player has incorrectly identified the specific one of the retrieved contacts as a source associated with the particular one of the listed content, and otherwise to award points in the game to a game score for the player for having correctly identified the specific one of the retrieved contacts as a source associated with the particular one of the listed content. - View Dependent Claims (6, 7, 8, 9)
-
-
10. A computer program product comprising a computer storage device embodying computer usable program code for content recommendation, the computer program product comprising:
-
computer usable program code for retrieving contacts for a player of a content recommendation game; computer usable program code for listing content associated with the retrieved contacts; computer usable program code for prompting the player in response to a selection of a particular one of the listed content to identify a specific one of the retrieved contacts as a source associated with the particular one of the listed content; and
,computer usable program code for recommending the particular one of the listed content to the identified specific one of the retrieved contacts when the player has incorrectly identified the specific one of the retrieved contacts as a source associated with the particular one of the listed content, and otherwise awarding points in the game to a game score for the player for having correctly identified the specific one of the retrieved contacts as a source associated with the particular one of the listed content. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13)
-
Specification