Content completion recommendations

• US 8,554,640 B1
• Filed: 08/19/2010
• Issued: 10/08/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 08/19/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc. (Amazon.com, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc. (Amazon.com, Inc.)
• Inventors: Killalea, Tom, Petts, James C., Dykstra, Aaron James, Grit, Laura Ellen
• Primary Examiner(s): ALLEN, WILLIAM J
• Application Number:
  US12/859,662
• Time in Patent Office: 1,146 Days
• Field of Search: 705/14.4, 705 1449- 1453, 705/14.59, 705 1464- 1467, 705/14.73, 705 261- 272, 705 51- 59, 705/319
• US Class Current: 705/26.7
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/101 Collaborative creation, e.g. joint development of products or services

Abstract

User content access events pertaining to a content item, such as an eBook, audio, video file, and so on, are collected and analyzed to determine progress data, including completion information about when the content item, or a portion thereof, has been completed. Once determined, further information or recommendations that have some relation to the completed content item may be presented to the user.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method comprising:

under control of an electronic book reader device configured with executable instructions,

determining, based on user interaction data, completion of a particular electronic book by a human reader;

predicting one or more suggested electronic books that the human reader would be likely to read after completing the particular electronic book; and

in response to completion of the particular electronic book by the human reader, offering the one or more suggested electronic books for subsequent reading by the human reader, wherein at least one of the one or more suggested electronic books was obtained by one or more other human readers upon completion of the particular electronic book.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising automatically initiating a free preview of at least one of the suggested electronic books.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the suggested electronic books have one or more common characteristics with the particular electronic book, the common characteristics comprising one or more of authorship, genre, series, characters, setting, subject matter, and sequence.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising filtering the one or more suggested electronic books based on one or more of the following:

whether the suggested electronic books have one or more of the same contributors as the particular electronic book;

whether the suggested electronic books have the same publisher as the particular electronic book; and

whether the suggested electronic books are of the same genre as the particular electronic book.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising filtering the one or more suggested electronic books based on whether the one or more suggested electronic books comply with criteria designated by the human reader.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising filtering the one or more suggested electronic books based on interests indicated by the human reader.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the one or more suggested electronic books comprise a related electronic book that is subsequent to the particular electronic book in a series of related books.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the one or more suggested electronic books comprise a related electronic book that is with the particular electronic book in a set of related electronic books.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising, after determining completion of the particular electronic book based on the user interaction data, prompting to share completion of the particular electronic book via a social network.

10. A computer-implemented method comprising:

under control of one or more computer systems configured with executable instructions,

determining, based on user interaction data, completion of a particular content item by an accessing user;

identifying one or more products that are related to the particular content item, wherein the identifying one or more products comprises identifying one or more products obtained by one or more other users after completing a version of the particular content item; and

in response to completion of the particular content item by the accessing user, presenting the one or more products to the accessing user.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein:

the one or more products comprise a suggested content item; and

the presenting comprises initiating the suggested content item.

12. The method of claim 10, further comprising, after determining completion of the particular content item by the accessing user based on the user interaction data, sharing completion information regarding the particular content item via a social network associated with the accessing user.

13. The method of claim 10, wherein the one or more products comprise a suggested content item that is subsequent to the particular content item in a series of related works.

14. The method of claim 10, wherein the one or more products comprise a suggested content item that is with the particular content item in a set of related works.

15. The method of claim 10, wherein:

the one or more products comprise one or more suggested content items; and

the presenting comprises listing the one or more suggested content items for selection by the accessing user.

16. The method of claim 10, wherein the one or more products comprise merchandise other than content items.

17. The method of claim 10, wherein the one or more products comprise one or more suggested content items that are similar to the particular content item.

18. The method of claim 10, wherein the presenting comprises listing the one or more products for selection by the accessing user.

19. A system comprising:

a processor;

a memory accessible by the processor; and

operational logic stored in the memory and executable on the processor to perform actions comprising;

rendering sequential portions of a particular electronic content item in response to navigation by a human reader;

detecting completion of the particular electronic content item by the human reader; and

in response to completion of the particular electronic content item, recommending one or more other electronic content items to the human reader, wherein the recommending comprises;

querying the human reader for an available amount of time; and

in response to receiving the available amount of time from the human reader, identifying the one or more other electronic content items based on whether the one or more other electronic content items can be consumed within the available amount of time.

20. The system of claim 19, wherein the particular electronic content item and the one or more other electronic content items are selected based on one or more similarities between the content items.

21. The system of claim 19, wherein the particular electronic content item and the one or more other electronic content items belong to a set of related content items.

22. The system of claim 19, wherein the particular electronic content item is part of a series of related content items, and the one or more other electronic content items comprise a subsequent content item of the series.

23. The system of claim 19, wherein the recommending comprises automatically initiating the one or more other content items.

24. The system of claim 19, wherein the recommending comprises automatically initiating a free preview of the one or more other content items.