Crowd sourced, content aware smarter television systems

• US 9,226,027 B2
• Filed: 02/17/2014
• Issued: 12/29/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 06/29/2012
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Bhide, Manish A., Mittapalli, Srinivas K., Shenoy, Nithinkrishna
• Primary Examiner(s): Goodarzi, Nasser
• Assistant Examiner(s): PIERORAZIO, MICHAEL
• Application Number:
  US14/182,027
• Publication Number:
  US 20140165092A1
• Time in Patent Office: 680 Days
• Field of Search: 725/13, 725/25, 725/28, 725/40
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/25891 being end-user preferences retrieval of video data in a video database based on user preferences G06F16/739; arrangements for recognizing users' preferences H04H60/46; 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 21/266 Channel or content management, e.g. generation and management of keys and entitlement messages in a conditional access system, merging a VOD unicast channel into a multicast channel
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2665 Gathering content from different sources, e.g. Internet and satellite
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/454 Content or additional data filtering, e.g. blocking advertisements
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4542 Blocking scenes or portions of the received content, e.g. censoring scenes
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4756 for rating content, e.g. scoring a recommended movie
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/482 End-user interface for program selection broadcast systems using EPGs H04H60/72
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6543 for forcing some client operations, e.g. recording remote booting in general G06F9/4416
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6582 Data stored in the client, e.g. viewing habits, hardware capabilities, credit card number arrangements where receivers interact with the broadcast H04H20/38
• 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

Abstract

Method, system, and computer program product for performing an operation, the operation including transmitting a media stream to one or more devices configured to display the media stream on a display coupled to the respective device, receiving user feedback from a first set of devices, of the one or more devices, marking the media stream as inappropriate, and upon determining that the received user feedback exceeds a threshold, marking the media stream as inappropriate, transmitting the marked media stream to a first device, of the one or more devices exclusive of the first set of devices, and wherein the first device is configured to, responsive to receiving the marked media stream, restrict display of the marked media stream on the respective display.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method, comprising:

transmitting a media stream to a plurality of devices configured to output the media stream on a respective display coupled to each of the devices;

receiving user feedback from a first set of devices, of the plurality of devices, marking the media stream as inappropriate;

aggregating the received user feedback based on an aggregation criterion applied to at least one of;

(i) a portion of the media stream, (ii) a type of the user feedback, and (iii) a category of the user feedback; and

upon determining that the aggregated user feedback exceeds a threshold for the aggregation criterion;

marking the media stream as inappropriate;

transmitting the marked media stream to a first device, of the plurality of devices exclusive of the first set of devices; and

wherein the first device is configured to, responsive to receiving the marked media stream, restrict display of the marked media stream on the display coupled to the first device.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein restricting display of the marked media stream comprises at least one of:

restricting display of at least part of the marked media stream on the respective display; and

displaying an indication on the respective display that the media stream is inappropriate.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the aggregation criterion specifies to determine a count of the received user feedback, wherein the threshold for the aggregation criterion comprises a count of users marking the media stream as inappropriate.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the type of the user feedback comprises user sentiment related to a genre of the media stream, wherein restricting display of the marked media stream comprises at least one of:

restricting display of at least part of the marked media stream on the display; and

displaying an indication on the respective display that the media stream belongs to a genre marked as inappropriate by the viewer.

5. The method of claim 4, the category of the user feedback comprises at least one of:

(i) religion, (ii) politics, (iii) violence, and (iv) explicit content.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the user feedback is entered by a user accessing a graphical user interface generated by the one or more devices and displayed on the respective display.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the received user feedback comprises feedback from a second user marking the first media stream as inappropriate, wherein a second device of the second user is included in the first set of devices, wherein display of the marked media stream is restricted from the first device based on the feedback from the second user and without any feedback from a first user associated with the first device.

8. A computer program product, comprising:

a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having computer-readable program code embodied therewith, the computer-readable program code executable by a processor to perform an operation comprising;

transmitting a media stream to a plurality of devices configured to output the media stream on a respective display coupled to each of the devices;

user feedback from a first set of devices, of the plurality of devices, marking the media stream as inappropriate;

aggregating the received user feedback based on an aggregation criterion applied to at least one of;

(i) a portion of the media stream, (ii) a type of the user feedback, and (iii) a category of the user feedback; and

upon determining that the aggregated user feedback exceeds a threshold for the aggregation criterion;

marking the media stream as inappropriate;

transmitting the marked media stream to a first device, of the plurality of devices exclusive of the first set of devices; and

wherein the first device is configured to, responsive to receiving the marked media stream, restrict display of the marked media stream on the display coupled to the first device.

9. The computer program product of claim 8, wherein restricting display of the marked media stream comprises at least one of:

restricting display of at least part of the marked media stream on the respective display; and

displaying an indication on the respective display that the media stream is inappropriate.

10. The computer program product of claim 8, wherein the aggregation criterion specifies to determine a count of the received user feedback, wherein the threshold for the aggregation criterion comprises a count of users marking the media stream as inappropriate.

11. The computer program product of claim 8, wherein the type of the user feedback comprises user sentiment related to a genre of the media stream, wherein restricting display of the marked media stream comprises at least one of:

restricting display of at least part of the marked media stream on the display; and

displaying an indication on the respective display that the media stream belongs to a genre marked as inappropriate by the viewer.

12. The computer program product of claim 11, the category of the user feedback comprises at least one of:

(i) religion, (ii) politics, (iii) violence, and (iv) explicit content.

13. The computer program product of claim 8, wherein the user feedback is entered by a user accessing a graphical user interface generated by the one or more devices and displayed on the respective display.

14. The computer program product of claim 8, wherein the received user feedback comprises feedback from a second user marking the first media stream as inappropriate, wherein a second device of the second user is included in the first set of devices, wherein display of the marked media stream is restricted from the first device based on the feedback from the second user and without any feedback from a first user associated with the first device.

15. A system, comprising:

one or more computer processors; and

a memory containing a program, which, when executed by the one or more computer processors performs an operation comprising;

transmitting a media stream to a plurality of devices configured to output the media stream on a respective display coupled to each of the devices;

receiving user feedback from a first set of devices, of the plurality of devices, marking the media stream as inappropriate;

aggregating the received user feedback based on an aggregation criterion applied to at least one of;

(i) a portion of the media stream, (ii) a type of the user feedback, and (iii) a category of the user feedback; and

upon determining that the aggregated user feedback exceeds a threshold for the aggregation criterion;

marking the media stream as inappropriate;

transmitting the marked media stream to a first device, of the plurality of devices exclusive of the first set of devices; and

wherein the first device is configured to, responsive to receiving the marked media stream, restrict display of the marked media stream on the display coupled to the first device.

16. The system of claim 15, wherein restricting display of the marked media stream comprises at least one of:

restricting display of at least part of the marked media stream on the respective display; and

displaying an indication on the respective display that the media stream is inappropriate.

17. The system of claim 15, wherein the aggregation criterion specifies to determine a count of the received user feedback, wherein the threshold for the aggregation criterion comprises a count of users marking the media stream as inappropriate.

18. The system of claim 15, wherein the type of the user feedback comprises user sentiment related to a genre of the media stream, wherein restricting display of the marked media stream comprises at least one of:

restricting display of at least part of the marked media stream on the display; and

displaying an indication on the respective display that the media stream belongs to a genre marked as inappropriate by the viewer.

19. The system of claim 18, the category of the user feedback comprises at least one of:

(i) religion, (ii) politics, (iii) violence, and (iv) explicit content.

20. The system of claim 15, wherein the user feedback is entered by a user accessing a graphical user interface generated by the one or more devices and displayed on the respective display.