Apparatus and methods of distributing content and receiving selected content based on user personalization information

• US 8,856,331 B2
• Filed: 11/17/2006
• Issued: 10/07/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 11/23/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Qualcomm, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Qualcomm, Inc.
• Inventors: Coyer, James D., Childress, Charles C., Coad, Michael T., Wiltgen, Charles R.
• Primary Examiner(s): Vostal, O. C.
• Application Number:
  US11/561,310
• Publication Number:
  US 20070204004A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,881 Days
• Field of Search: 709/226, 707/732, 707/784, 707/9
• US Class Current: 709/226
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3438 monitoring of user actions tracking the activity of the user H04L67/535
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3452 Performance evaluation by statistical analysis
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/04 Forecasting or optimisation specially adapted for administrative or management purposes, e.g. linear programming or "cutting stock problem" market predictions or forecasting for commercial activities G06Q30/0202
• CPC Class Codes: G16B 40/00 ICT specially adapted for biostatistics; ICT specially adapted for bioinformatics-related machine learning or data mining, e.g. knowledge discovery or pattern finding
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/00 Arrangements for monitoring or testing data switching networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/70 Admission control; Resource allocation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1101 Session protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/611 for multicast or broadcast systems for broadcast or conference H04L12/18; arrangements for broadcast or distribution combined with broadcast H04H20/00; arrangements for broadcast applications with a direct linkage to broadcast information or to broadcast space-time H04H60/00; selective distribution of broadcast services, e.g. multimedia broadcast multicast service [MBMS], H04W4/06
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/70 Media network packetisation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/535 Tracking the activity of the user network monitoring arrangements H04L43/00; recording of computer activity G06F11/34

Abstract

Apparatus and methods include the distribution of a plurality of content, at least one of which is tagged with descriptive metadata. Further, the apparatus and methods include selecting content from the plurality of content based on a match between a personalized content preference descriptor stored on the device and the tagged content. Thus, the selected content represents content likely to be applicable or relevant, and/or of interest, to the user associated with the personalized content preference descriptor.

Claims

1. A method of receiving content, comprising:

obtaining, on a wireless device, at least one global personalized content preference descriptor and at least one content-specific personalized content preference descriptor, wherein;

the at least one global personalized content preference description and the at least one content-specific personalized content preference descriptor are generated based on at least one of psychographic information and personality traits of other wireless device users, wherein a global personalized content preference descriptor indicates a preference of a wireless device user applicable across all content; and

the other wireless device users are selected from the group consisting of friends identified by the wireless device user, family identified by the wireless device user, and co-workers identified by the wireless device user;

obtaining, on the wireless device, a predetermined content descriptor for each of a plurality of content;

receiving, on the wireless device, a multicast transmission of the plurality of content;

identifying, on the wireless device, for each content in the plurality of content, at least one content-specific personalized content preference descriptor associated with the content;

automatically selecting, on the wireless device, at least one content from the multicast transmission of the plurality of content based on a match between at least a portion of a predetermined content descriptor associated with the at least one content from the multicast transmission and both of the at least one global personalized content preference descriptor and at least one content-specific personalized content preference descriptor associated with the at least one content from the multicast transmission; and

processing, on the wireless device, the selected content,

wherein a content-specific personalized content preference descriptor indicates a preference of the wireless device user applicable to only one particular content based on a type of the one particular content.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein obtaining the at least one global personalized content preference descriptor and at least one content-specific personalized content preference descriptor comprises selecting the at least one global personalized content preference descriptor and the at least one content-specific personalized content preference descriptor from a plurality of predetermined content descriptors defined by a content supplier.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein obtaining the at least one global personalized content preference descriptor and at least one content-specific personalized content preference descriptor comprises selecting the at least one global personalized content preference descriptor and the at least one content-specific personalized content preference descriptor from a plurality of predetermined content descriptors corresponding to a respective one of a plurality of services associated with a content supplier, wherein at least two of the plurality of services are associated with a different plurality of predetermined content descriptors.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein obtaining the at least one global personalized content preference descriptor and at least one content-specific personalized content preference descriptor comprises generating the at least one global personalized content preference descriptor and the at least one content-specific personalized content preference descriptor based on at least one of information associated with a psychographic of predetermined users and information associated with predetermined users within a predetermined geographic area.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein obtaining the at least one global personalized content preference descriptor and at least one content-specific personalized content preference descriptor comprises obtaining the at least one global personalized content preference descriptor and at least one content-specific personalized content preference descriptor by executing at least a predetermined one of an algorithm, a decision-making routine, fuzzy logic, a heuristic method and a neural network.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein obtaining the at least one global personalized content preference descriptor and at least one content-specific personalized content preference descriptor comprises generating the at least one global personalized content preference descriptor and the at least one content-specific personalized content preference descriptor based on at least one of local time, a wireless network carrier associated with the wireless device and a device characteristic.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein generating the at least one global personalized content preference descriptor and at least one content-specific personalized content preference descriptor comprises obtaining the at least one global personalized content preference descriptor and at least one content-specific personalized content preference descriptor by executing at least one of a predetermined algorithm, a predetermined decision-making routine, predetermined fuzzy logic, a predetermined heuristic method and a predetermined neural network.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein processing the selected content comprises storing the selected content at the wireless device.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein selecting at least one content from the multicast transmission of the plurality of content further comprises determining if at least the portion of the predetermined content descriptor satisfies a predetermined matching threshold.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein processing the selected content comprises presenting the selected content at the wireless device.

11. A wireless device comprising:

a memory; and

a processor coupled to the memory, the processor configured with processor-executable instructions to perform the method of claim 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9 or 10.

12. A non-transitory processor-readable medium configured with processor-executable instructions to cause a processor of a wireless device to perform the method of claim 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9 or 10.

13. A method of receiving content, comprising:

obtaining, on a wireless device, at least one global personalized content preference descriptor and at least one content-specific personalized content preference descriptor;

obtaining, on the wireless device, a predetermined content descriptor for each of a plurality of content;

receiving, on the wireless device, a multicast transmission of the plurality of content;

identifying, on the wireless device, for each content in the plurality of content, at least one content-specific personalized content preference descriptor associated with the content;

automatically selecting, on the wireless device, at least one content from the multicast transmission of the plurality of content based on a match between at least a portion of a predetermined content descriptor associated with the at least one content from the multicast transmission and both of the at least one global personalized content preference descriptor and at least one content-specific personalized content preference descriptor associated with the at least one content from the multicast transmission; and

processing, on the wireless device, the selected content,

wherein a global personalized content preference descriptor indicates a preference of a wireless device user applicable across all content; and

wherein a content-specific personalized content preference descriptor indicates a preference of the wireless device user applicable to only one particular content based on a type of the one particular content.