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

• US 9,386,350 B2
• Filed: 11/12/2015
• Issued: 07/05/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 10/06/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: UV Corporation (Adeia Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Rovi Guides, Inc. (Adeia Inc.)
• Inventors: Rasanen, Kirsten, Bryant, Jay S.
• Primary Examiner(s): CORBO, NICHOLAS T
• Application Number:
  US14/939,711
• Publication Number:
  US 20160142779A1
• Time in Patent Office: 236 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 indicating Internet videos relevant to broadcast media, the method comprising:

identifying a first plurality of videos that are available by way of Internet sites;

storing metadata for each video of the first plurality of videos;

automatically comparing metadata corresponding to a broadcast media asset with the metadata for each video of the first plurality of videos;

based on the comparing, determining (1) a second plurality of videos that are relevant to the broadcast media asset and (2) a degree of relevance between each video of the second plurality of videos and the broadcast media asset;

linking each video of the second plurality of videos with the broadcast media asset, wherein the linking comprises storing a corresponding degree of relevance to the broadcast media asset in the metadata corresponding to each video of the second plurality of videos; and

generating for display a subset of the second plurality of videos comprising (1) an indication of each video in the subset and (2) the corresponding degree of relevance.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein determining the degree of relevance between each video of the second plurality of videos and the broadcast media asset comprises:

determining, for each respective video of the second plurality of videos, a respective percentage of metadata matching with metadata corresponding to the broadcast media asset; and

based on the respective percentage of metadata matching, determining the degree of relevance between each respective video of the second plurality of videos and the broadcast media asset.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving, from a data manager, an assigned degree of relevance between a video of the second plurality of videos and the broadcast media asset; and

updating the determined degree of relevance between the video of the second plurality of videos and the broadcast media asset with the assigned degree of relevance.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein linking each video of the second plurality of videos with the broadcast media asset further comprises storing a tag in the metadata corresponding to each of the second plurality of videos that links each video of the second plurality of videos to the broadcast media asset.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving, from a first user, a selection of a first video in the subset;

receiving a request from the first user, at the first user device, to notify a second user at a second user device about the selected first video; and

transmitting a notification of the selection of the first video to the second user at the second user device, wherein the notification comprises a Uniform Resource Locator of a website that provides the selected first video.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein transmitting the notification comprises adding the selected first video to a list of recommended media in a user profile of the second user.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving, from a user, a selection of a blogging feature associated with a first video of the subset;

generating an interactive display for receiving, from the user, comments associated with the first video;

receiving comments input by the user, wherein the comments are associated with the first video; and

storing the received comments.

8. The method of claim 7, further comprising:

providing access to a designated user to view the user-generated comments without providing access to other users to view the comments.

9. The method of claim 7, further comprising:

providing access to the user to view the comments without providing access to other comments generated by other users.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein generating for display the subset of the second plurality of videos is responsive to a user selection of the broadcast media asset.

11. A system for indicating Internet videos relevant to broadcast media, the system comprising:

storage circuitry; and

control circuitry configured to;

identify a first plurality of videos that are available by way of Internet sites;

store, using the storage circuitry, metadata for each video of the first plurality of videos;

automatically compare metadata corresponding to a broadcast media asset with the metadata for each video of the first plurality of videos;

based on the comparing, determine (1) a second plurality of videos that are relevant to the broadcast media asset and (2) a degree of relevance between each video of the second plurality of videos and the broadcast media asset;

link each video of the second plurality of videos with the broadcast media asset, wherein the linking comprises storing a corresponding degree of relevance to the broadcast media asset in the metadata corresponding to each video of the second plurality of videos; and

generate for display a subset of the second plurality of videos comprising (1) an indication of each video in the subset and (2) the corresponding degree of relevance.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein the control circuitry is further configured, when determining the degree of relevance between each video of the second plurality of videos and the broadcast media asset, to:

determine, for each respective video of the second plurality of videos, a respective percentage of metadata matching with metadata corresponding to the broadcast media asset; and

based on the respective percentage of metadata matching, determine the degree of relevance between each respective video of the second plurality of videos and the broadcast media asset.

13. The system of claim 11, wherein the control circuitry is further configured to:

receive, from a data manager, an assigned degree of relevance between a video of the second plurality of videos and the broadcast media asset; and

update the determined degree of relevance between the video of the second plurality of videos and the broadcast media asset with the assigned degree of relevance.

14. The system of claim 11, wherein the control circuitry is further configured, when linking each video of the second plurality of videos with the broadcast media asset to store a tag in the metadata corresponding to each of the second plurality of videos that links each video of the second plurality of videos to the broadcast media asset.

15. The system of claim 11, wherein the control circuitry is further configured to:

receive, from a first user, a selection of a first video in the subset;

receive a request from the first user, at the first user device, to notify a second user at a second user device about the selected first video; and

transmit a notification of the selection of the first video to the second user at the second user device, wherein the notification comprises a Uniform Resource Locator of a website that provides the selected first video.

16. The system of claim 15, wherein the control circuitry is further configured, when transmitting the notification to add the selected first video to a list of recommended media in a user profile of the second user.

17. The system of claim 11, wherein the control circuitry is further configured to:

receive, from a user, a selection of a blogging feature associated with a first video of the subset;

generate an interactive display for receiving, from the user, comments associated with the first video;

receive comments input by the user, wherein the comments are associated with the first video; and

store, using the storage circuitry, the received comments.

18. The system of claim 17, wherein the control circuitry is further configured to:

provide access to a designated user to view the comments without providing access to other users to view the comments.

19. The system of claim 17, wherein the control circuitry is further configured to:

provide access to the user to view the comments without providing access to other comments generated by other users.

20. The system of claim 11, wherein the control circuitry is further configured, when generating for display the subset of the second plurality of videos, to generate for display the subset of the second plurality of videos in response to a user selection of the broadcast media asset.