Systems and methods for acquiring, categorizing and delivering media in interactive media guidance applications

• US 9,215,504 B2
• Filed: 08/01/2014
• Issued: 12/15/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 10/06/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: TV Guide Incorporated (Adeia Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Rovi Guides, Inc. (Adeia Inc.)
• Inventors: Rasanen, Kirsten, Bryant, Jay S.
• Primary Examiner(s): CORBO, NICHOLAS T
• Application Number:
  US14/449,523
• Publication Number:
  US 20150007234A1
• Time in Patent Office: 501 Days
• Field of Search: 725 44- 45, 725 47- 48, 725/53
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/23418 involving operations for analysing video streams, e.g. detecting features or characteristics television picture signal circuitry for scene change detection H04N5/147; filtering for image enhancement G06T5/00; methods or arrangements for recognising scenes G06V20/00; arrangements characterised by components specially adapted for monitoring, identification or recognition of video in broadcast systems H04H60/59
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4316 for displaying supplemental content in a region of the screen, e.g. an advertisement in a separate window
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4532 involving end-user characteristics, e.g. viewer profile, preferences monitoring of user activities for profile generation for accessing a video database G06F16/739; user profiles in network data switching protocols H04L67/306; processing of user preferences or user profiles in wireless networks H04W8/18
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4622 Retrieving content or additional data from different sources, e.g. from a broadcast channel and the Internet web site content organization and management for information retrieval from the Internet G06F16/958; transmission by internet of broadcast information H04H60/82; stock exchange data over packet-switching network H04L12/1804; push services including data channel over packet-switching network H04L12/1859
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47 End-user applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47214 for content reservation or setting reminders; for requesting event notification, e.g. of sport results or stock market stock exchange data over packet-switching network H04L12/1804; push services over packet-switching network H04L12/1859; notification of incoming messages in packet switching networks H04L51/224
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/478 Supplemental services, e.g. displaying phone caller identification, shopping application
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4782 Web browsing , e.g. WebTV
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/482 End-user interface for program selection broadcast systems using EPGs H04H60/72
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4821 using a grid, e.g. sorted out by channel and broadcast time
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6175 involving transmission via Internet broadcast-related systems characterised by the transmission system being the Internet H04H60/82
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8133 specifically related to the content, e.g. biography of the actors in a movie, detailed information about an article seen in a video program
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/84 Generation or processing of descriptive data, e.g. content descriptors systems specially adapted for using meta-information in broadcast systems H04H60/73
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8586 by using a URL processing chained hypermedia data for information retrieval G06F16/94; information retrieval from the Internet by using URLs G06F16/955; URL in broadcast information H04H20/93; Web-based protocols H04L67/02
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/17318 Direct or substantially direct transmission and handling of requests

Abstract

Systems and methods are discussed for providing guidance for Internet-delivered media. In some embodiments, information on available media on the Internet is gathered. The information is associated with existing media guidance data. The associations enable a media guidance application to identify relevant online media and to display listings in a user-friendly way. A user interface for an online media guidance application is also provided. The user interface allows a user to narrow down the large amount of Internet-delivered media in a systematic way according to criteria that interests a user.

Claims

1. A method for providing guidance for Internet videos comprising:

identifying videos available over the Internet, wherein identifying the videos available over the Internet comprises crawling Internet sites;

storing metadata for each of the identified videos;

automatically comparing metadata corresponding to a broadcast media asset with the metadata corresponding to the stored Internet videos to determine a set of the stored Internet videos that is relevant to the broadcast media asset;

linking the set of stored Internet videos with the broadcast media asset by storing a tag in the metadata corresponding to each of the Internet videos in the set of stored Internet videos that links each video in the set of stored Internet videos to the broadcast media asset; and

in response to a user selection of the broadcast media asset, generating for display a recommendation of an Internet video from the set of stored Internet videos.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein identifying videos available over the Internet further comprises scraping the metadata for each of the identified videos from the Internet sites.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein storing the metadata for each of the identified videos comprises storing a URL to each of the identified videos.

4. The method of claim 1 further comprising in response to a user selection of the recommended Internet video from the set of stored Internet videos, redirecting the user to an Internet site that provides the user selected video.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the recommendation is selected in accordance with user'"'"'s interest.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the recommendation is selected based on the most popular videos of the day.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the recommendation is selected based on a user profile.

8. The method of claim 1 wherein the recommendation is based on editor'"'"'s recommendation.

9. The method of claim 1 further comprising generating for display a description and title of the recommended Internet video from the set of stored Internet videos.

10. The method of claim 1, further comprising generating for display a second recommendation of an Internet video from the set of stored Internet videos.

11. A system for providing guidance for Internet videos comprising:

storage; and

control circuitry configured to;

identify videos available over the Internet, wherein identifying the videos available over the Internet comprises crawling Internet sites;

store, in the storage, metadata for each of the identified videos;

automatically compare metadata corresponding to a broadcast media asset with the metadata corresponding to the stored Internet videos to determine a set of the stored Internet videos that is relevant to the broadcast media asset;

link the set of stored Internet videos with the broadcast media asset by storing a tag in the metadata corresponding to each of the Internet videos in the set of stored Internet videos that links each video in the set of stored Internet videos to the broadcast media asset; and

in response to a user selection of the broadcast media asset, generate for display a recommendation of an Internet video from the set of stored Internet videos.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein identifying videos available over the Internet further comprises scraping the metadata for each of the identified videos from the Internet sites.

13. The system of claim 11, wherein storing the metadata for each of the identified videos comprises storing a URL to each of the identified videos.

14. The system of claim 11 further comprising in response to a user selection of the recommended Internet video from the set of stored Internet videos, redirecting the user to an Internet site that provides the user selected video.

15. The system of claim 11, wherein the recommendation is selected in accordance with user'"'"'s interest.

16. The system of claim 11, wherein the recommendation is selected based on the most popular videos of the day.

17. The system of claim 11, wherein the recommendation is selected based on a user profile.

18. The system of claim 11 wherein the recommendation is based on editor'"'"'s recommendation.

19. The system of claim 11 further comprising generating for display a description and title of the recommended Internet video from the set of stored Internet videos.

20. The system of claim 11, further comprising generating for display a second recommendation of an Internet video from the set of stored Internet videos.