Visual presentation of video usage statistics

• US 8,151,194 B1
• Filed: 03/26/2009
• Issued: 04/03/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 03/26/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Google Inc. (Alphabet Inc.)
• Inventors: Jakobi, Nicholas, Seth, Shashi, Chan, Tracy Patrick, Broxton, Thomas, Heckmann, Oliver, Maurer, Uwe, Yngvesson, Jonas
• Primary Examiner(s): Chow, Doon
• Assistant Examiner(s): CHOI, DAVID E
• Application Number:
  US12/412,062
• Time in Patent Office: 1,104 Days
• Field of Search: 715/744, 715/781, 715/201, 715/719, 715/738, 715/748, 715/830, 725/96, 709/203, 709/204, 709/226, 709/224, 345/157, 345/418, 345/426, 345/8
• US Class Current: 715/716
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/78 Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/01 Input arrangements or combined input and output arrangements for interaction between user and computer G06F3/16 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0201 Market modelling; Market analysis; Collecting market data

Abstract

A system, method, and various software tools enable a video hosting website to graphically display statistics of data associated with videos posted on a video hosting website. Data associated with videos is collected, analyzed and stored. A graphical representation of the data and corresponding geographic map are generated based on the collected data. The graphical representation shows the data along a timeline. The corresponding geographical map shows the data by geographic market. The graphical representation and geographical map are associated such that a modification to the graphical representation modifies the geographical map accordingly and a modification to the geographical map modifies the graphical representation accordingly.

Claims

1. A method for displaying video statistics, the method comprising:

receiving a request over a network from a contributor for video statistics related to videos contributed by the contributor to a video hosting website, the view statistics including a number of views received by the videos;

displaying in a user interface a plurality of statistics related to the contributed videos, the statistics displayed on a timeline and geographic map, the timeline specifying a first period of time and indicating the views received by the videos, and the geographic map highlighting a first geographic region from which a greatest number of views were received over the first period of time;

receiving input specifying a second period of time;

displaying the second period of time on the timeline; and

updating the displayed geographic map to highlight a second geographic region from which a greatest number of views were received over the second period of time.

2. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

receiving a selection of one of the geographic regions on the geographic map; and

displaying on the timeline the number of views received by the contributed videos only from the selected geographic region.

3. The method of claim 1 further comprising filtering the video statistics to include only statistics related to a subset of videos contributed by the user.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein the video statistics include a measure of popularity of the user'"'"'s contributed videos compared to other users'"'"' contributed videos.

5. The method of claim 4 wherein popularity is determined according to a number of views received by the videos.

6. The method of claim 1 wherein the video statistics include a measure of how the contributed videos were discovered by viewers.

7. The method of claim 6 wherein the video statistics include a measure of videos discovered by viewing related videos.

8. The method of claim 7 further comprising displaying a list of videos related to at least one of the contributed videos and from which at least one of the contributed videos was discovered.

9. The method of claim 6 wherein the video statistics include a measure of videos discovered by searching the video hosting web site.

10. The method of claim 6 wherein the video statistics include a measure of videos discovered by following a link to the video, the link posted on a web site other than the video hosting site.

11. The method of claim 6 wherein the video statistics include a measure of videos discovered by viewing the video in a video player hosted on a site other than the video hosting site.

12. The method of claim 1 wherein the video statistics include a measure of viewer demographics.

13. The method of claim 12 wherein the viewer demographics include a gender of the viewers.

14. The method of claim 12 wherein the viewer demographics include an age of the viewers.

15. The method of claim 1 wherein the video statistics include a measure of community engagement with the contributed videos.

16. The method of claim 15 wherein the measure of community engagement includes a number of user comments made about the video.

17. The method of claim 15 wherein the measure of community engagement includes a number of ratings received by the video.

18. The method of claim 15 wherein the measure of community engagement includes a number of users who have added the video to a favorites list.

19. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

receiving a request over the network from a viewer other than the contributor for video statistics related to at least one video contributed by the contributor;

displaying to the viewer at least one statistic related to the video contributed by the contributor, wherein the statistic is displayed with a granularity less than the granularity displayed to the contributor.

20. The method of claim 19 wherein the level of granularity with which the statistic is displayed to the viewer other than the contributor is determined at least in part by the contributor.

21. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

receiving from the contributor instructions specifying a subset of the video usage statistics to make available to other viewers of the contributed videos;

receiving a request over the network from a viewer other than the contributor for video statistics related to at least one video contributed by the contributor;

displaying to the viewer the subset of video statistics specified by the contributor.

22. A computer program product for displaying video statistics, the computer program product stored on a non-transitory computer-readable medium and including instructions configured to cause a processor to carry out the steps of:

receiving a request from a contributor for video statistics related to videos contributed by the contributor to a video hosting website, the view statistics including a number of views received by the videos;

displaying in a user interface a plurality of statistics related to the contributed videos, the statistics displayed on a timeline and geographic map, the timeline indicating the views received by the videos and the geographic map highlighting a first geographic region associated with the timeline from which a greatest number of views were received;

receiving input specifying a second geographic region; and

modifying the displayed timeline to display only statistics related to the specified second geographic region.

23. A video statistics analyzer, comprising:

at least one processor;

a data analysis module, executed by the processor, adapted to analyze viewer behavior with respect to a plurality of videos contributed by a contributor;

a graph generation module, coupled to the data analysis module and executed by the processor, adapted to display in a user interface a timeline graph of at least one video statistic over a first period of time, including a number of views received by the videos;

a map generation module, coupled to the data analysis module and executed by the processor, adapted to display a geographic map, the geographic map highlighting a first geographic region from which a greatest number of views were received over the first period of time; and

an interactivity module, coupled to the graph generation module and the map generation module, executed by the processor and adapted to receive user input specifying a second period of time, and to cause the graph generation module to display the video statistic over the second period of time and the map generation module to highlight a second geographic region from which a greatest number of views were received over the second period of time.