Media content presentation by categorizing and formatting media types

• US 9,454,531 B1
• Filed: 04/03/2012
• Issued: 09/27/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 04/03/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Google Inc. (Alphabet Inc.)
• Inventors: Fisher, David Scott, Foryciarz, Jurek
• Primary Examiner(s): Baderman, Scott
• Assistant Examiner(s): Jung, Seung
• Application Number:
  US13/438,755
• Time in Patent Office: 1,638 Days
• Field of Search: 715/249, 715/252, 715/201
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/4393 Multimedia presentations, e.g. slide shows, multimedia albums
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/44 Browsing; Visualisation therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/48 Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/739 in form of a video summary, e.g. the video summary being a video sequence, a composite still image or having synthesized frames
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/106 Display of layout of documents; Previewing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/109 Font handling; Temporal or kinetic typography
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/143 Markup, e.g. Standard Generalized Markup Language [SGML] or Document Type Definition [DTD]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8405 represented by keywords

Abstract

A method for presenting media content of a website having a plurality of media content types on a media device includes receiving media content from a website at one or more computing devices over a network interface; categorizing media content from the website into a plurality of media content types comprising a text type content and a non-text type content; receiving a selection of a media content type for displaying media content items of the selected media content type by the media device; retrieving, from a memory device, display parameters for a user interface for the selected media content type; reformatting the media content items of the selected media content type for display based on the retrieved display parameters for the user interface; and providing display data, to a display device associated with the media device, representing the user interface and the reformatted media content items.

Claims

1. A method for presenting media content of a website having a plurality of media content types on a media device, the method comprising:

receiving media content items associated with a webpage from a website at the media device over a network interface;

categorizing, using the media device, each of the media content items from the webpage into at least one media content type of a plurality of media content types, wherein the at least one media content type is one of;

video media, image media, audio media, text, and links;

determining that a number of media content items associated with one of the plurality of media content types exceeds a predetermined threshold;

selecting at least one of the plurality of media content types for displaying the media content items of the selected media content type on a display device associated with the media device based on the determination that the number of media content items associated with the selected media content type exceeds the predetermined threshold and based on a webpage type associated with the webpage;

identifying, from a memory device of the media device, display parameters relating to the display device associated with the media device for a user interface for displaying the webpage that includes a media content item corresponding to the selected media content type on the display device;

reformatting the media content item of the selected media content type for display on the display device based on the identified display parameters for the user interface, wherein the reformatting the media content item of the selected media content type comprises changing an appearance of the media content item of the selected media content type to be different from an appearance of the media content item as presented on the webpage; and

generating the user interface to be displayed on the display device, wherein the user interface includes the reformatted media content item of the selected media content type and inhibits presentation of media content items corresponding to non-selected media content types.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein a first user interface is generated if the selected media content type corresponds to one of the video media, the image media, and the audio media, and wherein a second user interface is generated if the selected media content type corresponds to text.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein first display parameters are identified if the selected media content type corresponds to one of the video media, the image media, and the audio media, and wherein second display parameters, different from the first display parameters, are identified if the selected media content type corresponds to text.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

determining a relevancy of each of the received media content items;

wherein categorizing each of the received media content items is based on the relevancy of each of the received media content items.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the media content item from the received media content items is deemed relevant if the media content item satisfies a predetermined condition.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the media device is one of a television, a smart television module, a digital video recorder, a video game system, an optical disc player, and a media player for playing media on a television.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the reformatting is performed by the media device.

8. A media device system for presenting media content of a website having a plurality of media content types, the system comprising:

a processor configured to receive media content items associated with a webpage from a website at a media device over a network interface;

the processor configured to categorize each of the media content items from the webpage into at least one media content type of a plurality of media content types, wherein the at least one media content type is one of;

video media, image media, audio media, text, and links;

the processor configured to determine that a number of media content items associated with one of the plurality of media content types exceeds a predetermined threshold;

the processor configured to select at least one of the plurality of media content types for displaying the media content items of the selected media content type on a display device associated with the media device based on the determination that the number of media content items associated with the selected media content type exceeds the predetermined threshold and based on a webpage type associated with the webpage;

the processor configured to identify, from a memory device of the media device, display parameters relating to the display device associated with the media device for a user interface for displaying the webpage that includes a media content item corresponding to the selected media content type on the display device;

the processor configured to reformat the media content item of the selected media content type for display on the display device based on the identified display parameters for the user interface, wherein the reformatting the media content item of the selected media content type comprises changing an appearance of the media content item of the selected media content type to be different from an appearance of the media content item as presented on the webpage; and

the processor configured to generate the user interface to be displayed on the display device, wherein the user interface includes the reformatted media content item of the selected media content type and inhibits presentation of media content items corresponding to non-selected media content types.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein a first user interface is generated if the selected media content type corresponds to one of the video media, the image media, and the audio media, and wherein a second user interface is generated if the selected media content type corresponds to text.

10. The system of claim 8, wherein first display parameters are identified if the selected media content type corresponds to one of the video media, the image media, and the audio media, and wherein second display parameters, different from the first display parameters, are identified if the selected media content type corresponds to text.

11. The system of claim 8, wherein the processor is further configured to:

determine a relevancy of each of the received media content items;

wherein categorizing each of the received media content items is based on the relevancy of each of the received media content items.

12. The system of claim 10, wherein the media content item from the received media content items is deemed relevant if the media content item satisfies a predetermined condition.

13. The system of claim 8, wherein the media device is one of a television, a smart television module, a digital video recorder, a video game system, an optical disc player, and a media player for playing media on a television.

14. The system of claim 8, wherein the reformatting is performed by the media device.

15. A computer program product presenting media content of a website having a plurality of media content types on a media device, the computer program product comprising:

a non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising code for;

receiving media content items associated with a webpage from a website at the media device over a network interface;

categorizing each of the media content items from the webpage into at least one media content type of a plurality of media content types, wherein the at least one media content type is one of;

video media, image media, audio media, text, and links;

determining that a number of media content items associated with one of the plurality of media content types exceeds a predetermined threshold;

selecting at least one of the plurality of media content types for displaying the media content items of the selected media content type on a display device associated with the media device based on the determination that the number of media content items associated with the selected media content type exceeds the predetermined threshold and based on a webpage type associated with the webpage;

identifying, from a memory device of the media device, display parameters relating to the display device associated with the media device for a user interface for displaying the webpage that includes a media content item corresponding to the selected media content type on the display device;

reformatting the media content item of the selected media content type for display on the display device based on the identified display parameters for the user interface wherein the reformatting the media content item of the selected media content type comprises changing an appearance of the media content item of the selected media content type to be different from an appearance of the media content item as presented on the webpage; and

generating the user interface to be displayed on the display device, wherein the user interface includes the reformatted media content item of the selected media content type and inhibits presentation of media content items corresponding to non-selected media content types.

16. The computer program product of claim 15, wherein a first user interface is generated if the selected media content type corresponds to one of the video media, the image media, and the audio media, and wherein a second user interface is generated if the selected media content type corresponds to text.

17. The computer program product of claim 15, wherein first display parameters are identified if the selected media content type corresponds to one of the video media, the image media, and the audio media, and wherein second display parameters, different from the first display parameters, are identified if the selected media content type corresponds to text.

18. The computer program product of claim 15, wherein the non-transitory computer-readable medium further comprises code for:

determining a relevancy of each of the received media content items;

wherein categorizing each of the received media content items is based on the relevancy of each of the received media content items.

19. The computer program product of claim 18, wherein the media content item from the received media content items is deemed relevant if the media content item satisfies a predetermined condition.

20. The computer program product of claim 15, wherein the media device is one of a television, a smart television module, a digital video recorder, a video game system, an optical disc player, and a media player for playing media on a television.

21. The computer program product of claim 15, wherein the reformatting is performed by the media device.