Event pop-ups for video selection

• US 9,473,819 B1
• Filed: 03/25/2016
• Issued: 10/18/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 09/04/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Bostick, James E., Ganci, John M. Jr., Keen, Martin G., Rakshit, Sarbajit K., Trim, Craig M.
• Primary Examiner(s): Hance, Robert
• Application Number:
  US15/080,788
• Time in Patent Office: 207 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 20/44 Event detection
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/234 Processing of video elementary streams, e.g. splicing of video streams or manipulating encoded video stream scene graphs
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/251 Learning process for intelligent management, e.g. learning user preferences for recommending movies details of learning user preferences for the retrieval of video data in a video database G06F16/739; computer systems using learning methods G06N3/08
• 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 21/4312 involving specific graphical features, e.g. screen layout, special fonts or colors, blinking icons, highlights or animations
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/44226 on social networks
• 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 21/4668 for recommending content, e.g. movies
• 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 21/4722 for requesting additional data associated with the content
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4782 Web browsing , e.g. WebTV
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4788 communicating with other users, e.g. chatting arrangements for providing for computer conferences, e.g. chat rooms, to substation in data switching networks H04L12/1813; distributed application using peer-to-peer [P2P] networks H04L67/104
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/482 End-user interface for program selection broadcast systems using EPGs H04H60/72
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4826 using recommendation lists, e.g. of programs or channels sorted out according to their score
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4882 for displaying messages, e.g. warnings, reminders arrangements for providing short real-time information to substation in data switching networks H04L12/1895
• 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

Abstract

A method for notifying a viewer of content relevant to the viewer'"'"'s interests is provided. A computer identifies an identity of a viewer of a display device, wherein the display device is displaying a first video feed. A computer determines a plurality of preferences of the viewer. A computer retrieves a profile of the viewer, wherein the profile includes the plurality of preferences of the viewer. In response to a determination that a content of a second video feed that is available for viewing on the display device matches at least one of the plurality of preferences of the viewer, a computer generates a notification of the second video feed. In response to receiving an acceptance of the notification, a computer sends a command to the display device to display the second video feed.

Claims

1. A method of comprising:

receiving, by one or more processors, an image of a viewer of a display device;

identifying, by the one or more processors, an identity of the viewer of the display device based, at least in part, on the image of the viewer, wherein the display device is displaying a first video feed;

determining, by the one or more processors, a plurality of preferences of the viewer, wherein the plurality of preferences is based, at least in part, on the following;

(i) a profile of the viewer on a social network;

(ii) one or more messages posted by the viewer to the social network;

(iii) a profile of a friend of the viewer on the social network;

(iv) one or more messages posted by the friend to the social network;

(v) one or more prior viewing habits of the viewer; and

(vi) one or more prior responses to previous notifications;

retrieving, by the one or more processors, a profile of the viewer, wherein the profile includes the plurality of preferences of the viewer;

determining, by the one or more processors, a content of a second video feed based, at least in part, on at least one image of the second video feed;

in response to a determination that the content of the second video feed that is available for viewing on the display device matches at least one of the plurality of preferences of the viewer, generating, by the one or more processors, a notification of the second video feed, wherein;

(i) the notification indicates an upcoming event in the content of the second video feed that matches at least one of the plurality of preferences of the viewer; and

(ii) the notification includes the content of the second video feed that matches the at least one of the plurality of preferences of the viewer; and

in response to receiving an acceptance of the notification, sending, by the one or more processors, a command to the display device to display the second video feed.