Distributing personalized content
First Claim
1. A method of enabling access to digital media items through one or more theme-based channels over a communications network, the method comprising:
- obtaining a pool of digital media items of potential interest to a community of users that access a theme-based channel, the pool of digital media items including a first digital media item and a second digital media item;
receiving, over the communications network, requests from a first individual recipient and a second individual recipient to access the theme-based channel;
providing, as the first individual recipient is accessing the theme-based channel, the first individual recipient with the first digital media item, the first digital media item being provided to the first individual recipient in response to a determination that the first digital media item is more responsive to a predicted interest of the first individual recipient than the second digital media item;
providing, as the second individual recipient is accessing the theme-based channel, the second individual recipient with the second digital media item; and
replacing one or more of the digital media items in the pool, based on a determination that the one or more digital media items are not responsive to a predicted interest of the community of users.
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Abstract
The invention provides a method and system for distributing personalized content to potentially large numbers of recipients. A pool is selected, from among all content available for distribution, of those content elements that will be made available for simultaneous distribution, and personalized content is selected for distribution from that pool. The content of the pool can change with new selections over time. For each individual recipient, content elements in the pool are examined to determine if they are predicted to be of sufficient interest to that recipient for distribution, and if so, those content elements are distributed. If not, successive content elements in the pool are examined, relaxing the standard for sufficient interest, until at least one content element is found and distributed to the individual recipient.
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22 Claims
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1. A method of enabling access to digital media items through one or more theme-based channels over a communications network, the method comprising:
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obtaining a pool of digital media items of potential interest to a community of users that access a theme-based channel, the pool of digital media items including a first digital media item and a second digital media item; receiving, over the communications network, requests from a first individual recipient and a second individual recipient to access the theme-based channel; providing, as the first individual recipient is accessing the theme-based channel, the first individual recipient with the first digital media item, the first digital media item being provided to the first individual recipient in response to a determination that the first digital media item is more responsive to a predicted interest of the first individual recipient than the second digital media item; providing, as the second individual recipient is accessing the theme-based channel, the second individual recipient with the second digital media item; and replacing one or more of the digital media items in the pool, based on a determination that the one or more digital media items are not responsive to a predicted interest of the community of users. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17)
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18. A system of enabling access to digital media items through one or more theme-based channels over a communications network, the method comprising:
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a storage device that stores a library of content; and a processor configured to; obtain, from the library of content, a pool of digital media items of potential interest to a community of users that access a theme-based channel, the pool of digital media items including a first digital media item and a second digital media item; receive, over the communications network, requests from a first individual recipient and a second individual recipient to access the theme-based channel; provide, as the first individual recipient is accessing the theme-based channel, the first individual recipient with the first digital media item, the first digital media item being provided to the first individual recipient in response to a determination that the first digital media item is more responsive to a predicted interest of the first individual recipient than the second digital media item; provide, as the second individual recipient is accessing the theme-based channel, the second individual recipient with the second digital media item; and replace one or more of the digital media items in the pool, based on a determination that the one or more digital media items are not responsive to a predicted interest of the community of users. - View Dependent Claims (19, 20, 21, 22)
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