Collaborative device for enabling users to select collaborative content, and method thereof

• US 8,782,533 B2
• Filed: 07/12/2006
• Issued: 07/15/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 07/21/2005
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Sisvel S.p.A. (Fineur International S.A.)
• Original Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
• Inventors: Kravtsova, Natasha, Ter Horst, Herman, Ten Kate, Warner Rudolph Theophile, Korst, Johannes Henricus Maria
• Primary Examiner(s): TRAN, TUYETLIEN T
• Application Number:
  US11/996,358
• Publication Number:
  US 20080215989A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,925 Days
• Field of Search: 715/751, 715/753
• US Class Current: 715/751
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0484 for the control of specific functions or operations, e.g. selecting or manipulating an object, an image or a displayed text element, setting a parameter value or selecting a range
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/252 Processing of multiple end-users' preferences to derive collaborative data
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/44222 Analytics of user selections, e.g. selection of programs or purchase activity monitoring of user selections in data processing systems G06F11/34; arrangements for monitoring the user's behaviour or opinions in broadcast systems H04H60/33
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4755 for defining user preferences, e.g. favourite actors or genre retrieval personalisation and generation of user profiles for the retrieval of video data G06F16/739; user profiles in network data switching protocols H04L67/306
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/17318 Direct or substantially direct transmission and handling of requests

Abstract

The invention relates to a method of enabling a first user and a second user to obtain collaborative content. The method comprises steps of obtaining a plurality of content preference data comprising a first content preference data (121) of the first user and a second content preference data (131) of the second user, obtaining dependency data (114, 114a) indicating dependency of the first content preference data on the second content preference data, and using the plurality of content preference data for a selection of the collaborative content under control of the dependency data. The invention also relates to a collaborative device for enabling a first user and a second user to obtain collaborative content.

Claims

1. A method of enabling a first user and a second user to obtain collaborative content from a content database, comprising:

obtaining a plurality of content preference data that comprises a first content preference data of the first user and a second content preference data of the second user, the first and second content preference data each respectively including (i) list of genres and (ii) rating values corresponding to respective genres, the rating values including a value from 0 to 100, and wherein a collaborative content is selected if the content belongs to a specific genre rated above a predetermined threshold in the corresponding first or second content preference data;

obtaining dependency data indicating dependency of (i) a rating value for a given genre in the first content preference data on (ii) a rating value for a corresponding genre in the second content preference data; and

using the plurality of content preference data for a selection of the collaborative content from the content database under control of the dependency data, wherein the dependency data controls a manner of using the first and second content preference data for the selection, wherein dependency data of the first content preference data specifies conditions when the rating values of the first content preference data are overruled depending on the second content preference data, further wherein one of the first or second content preference data is (i) ignored in favor of the other or (ii) substituted with the other.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the first content preference data of the first user comprises an identifier of the second user.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the dependency data indicates that the second content preference data has a higher priority value for the selection than the first content preference data.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the second content preference data comprises content consumption history data of the second user.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the first content preference data and the second content preference data are combined into collaborative content preference data for the selection of the collaborative content.

9. A non-transitory computer-readable medium embodied with a computer program including instructions adapted to implement, when executed on a computing device, the steps of the method as claimed in claim 1.

6. A collaborative device for enabling a first user and a second user to obtain collaborative content from a content database, the device comprising a data processor configured to

obtain a plurality of content preference data that comprises a first content preference data of the first user and a second content preference data of the second user, the first and second content preference data each respectively including (i) list of genres and (ii) rating values corresponding to respective genres, the rating values including a value from 0 to 100, and wherein a collaborative content is selected if the content belongs to a specific genre rated above a redetermined threshold in the corresponding first or second content preference data,

obtain dependency data indicating dependency of (i) rating value for a given genre in the first content preference data on (ii) rating value for a corresponding genre in the second content preference data, and

use the plurality of content preference data for a selection of the collaborative content from the content database under control of the dependency data, wherein the dependency data controls a manner of using the first and second content preference data for the selection, wherein dependency data of the first content preference data specifies conditions when the rating values of the first content preference data are overruled depending on the second content preference data, further wherein one of the first or second content preference data is (i) ignored in favor of the other or (ii) substituted with the other.

7. The device of claim 6, wherein the dependency data is obtained from a first user device of the first user, the first user device having stored the dependency data.

8. The device of claim 6, wherein the collaborative content is transmitted to a first user device of the first user and to a second user device of the second user.