Creating customized programming content

• US 9,602,884 B1
• Filed: 07/14/2011
• Issued: 03/21/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 05/19/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Universal Innovation Council LLC, Universal Innovation Counsel, LLC
• Original Assignee: Universal Innovation Counsel Incorporated
• Inventors: Shield, Brian P., McClellen, Christopher Ryan, Eldering, Charles A.
• Primary Examiner(s): EKPO, NNENNA NGOZI
• Application Number:
  US13/183,109
• Time in Patent Office: 2,077 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 20/106 Receiver-side switching
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 20/40 Arrangements for broadcast specially adapted for accumulation-type receivers
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/00 Arrangements for broadcast applications with a direct linking to broadcast information or broadcast space-time; Broadcast-related systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/42 for identifying broadcast areas
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/46 for recognising users' preferences
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/52 of users
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/65 for using the result on users' side
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/82 the transmission system being the Internet
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/25841 involving the geographical location of the client retrieval from the Internet by querying based on geographical locations G06F16/9537; arrangements for identifying locations of receiving stations in broadcast systems H04H60/51; location of the user terminal in data switching networks H04L67/52; services making use of the location of users or terminals in wireless networks H04W4/02; locating users or terminals in wireless networks H04W64/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4147 PVR [Personal Video Recorder] H04N5/76 takes precedence ; arrangements for broadcast with accumulation-type receivers H04H20/40
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/44008 involving operations for analysing video streams, e.g. detecting features or characteristics in the video stream arrangements characterised by components specially adapted for monitoring, identification or recognition of video in broadcast systems H04H60/59
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/44224 Monitoring of user activity on external systems, e.g. Internet browsing
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4524 involving the geographical location of the client retrieval from the Internet by querying based on geographical locations G06F16/9537; systems specially adapted for using geographical information in broadcast systems H04H60/70; protocols in which the network application is adapted for the location of the user terminal in communication control or processing H04L67/52; services making use of the location of users or terminals in wireless networks H04W4/02; locating users or terminals in wireless networks H04W64/00
• 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 21/47 End-user applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/482 End-user interface for program selection broadcast systems using EPGs H04H60/72
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/812 involving advertisement data advertising per se G06Q30/02
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/814 comprising emergency warnings arrangements specially adapted for emergency or urgency in broadcast systems H04H20/59; arrangements for providing alarms, notifications, alerts to substation in data switching networks H04L12/1895

Abstract

A computer-implemented method for creating localized programming content includes receiving a broadcast signal and receiving geographic specific data from a server. The geographic specific data for presentation as geographic specific content is rendered and a combination of the broadcast signal and the geographic specific content is assembled to produce the localized programming content for display.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method of creating customized programming content for a user of a video content system, the method comprising:

(a) analyzing interactions of the user to create a user interest profile for the user, the user interest profile, stored on a non-transitory storage medium, comprising a ranked list of a plurality of interest categories and one or more data fields for each interest category;

(b) locating and retrieving at least one video segment corresponding to each of the interest categories of the user interest profile and, for each interest category in the user interest profile, identifying one video segment of the at least one video segments with the highest correlation to the one or more data fields for the respective interest category;

(c) assembling the identified video segments of each interest category in the user interest profile into a customized video programming stream, the video segments ordered in the customized video programming stream based at least in part on the ranking of the plurality of interest categories in the user interest profile; and

(d) displaying the customized video programming stream to the user.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

(e) receiving the ranking of the plurality of interest categories from the user.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the analyzing interactions of the user includes analyzing previous user interaction with the video content system to determine the plurality of interest categories.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the ranking reflects a prediction of the order in which the user desires to view video segments corresponding to the interest categories.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

(e) analyzing the user'"'"'s interactions with the video content system during the display of the customized video programming stream; and

(f) updating the user interest profile based on the analyzing of (e).

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the at least one video segment is retrieved via the Internet.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the at least one video segment is retrieved by being recorded by a digital video recorder (DVR).

8. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

(e) determining the current geographic location of the user, wherein the received video segments include at least one geographically relevant video segment relevant to the current geographic location and wherein the customized programming stream includes the at least one geographically relevant video segment.

9. A computer program product, comprising a non-transitory computer usable medium having a computer readable program code embodied therein, said computer readable program code adapted to be executed to implement a method of creating customized programming content a user of a video content system, said method comprising:

(a) analyzing interactions of the user to create a user interest profile for the user, the user interest profile comprising a ranked list of a plurality of interest categories and one or more data fields for each interest category;

(b) locating and retrieving at least one video segment corresponding to each of the interest categories of the user interest profile and, for each interest category in the user interest profile, identifying one video segment of the at least one video segments with the highest correlation to the one or more data fields for the respective interest category;

(c) assembling the identified video segments of each interest category in the user interest profile into a customized video programming stream, the video segments ordered in the customized video programming stream based at least in part on the ranking of the plurality of interest categories in the user interest profile; and

(d) displaying the customized video programming stream to the user.

10. The computer program product of claim 9, further comprising:

(e) receiving the ranking of the plurality of interest categories from the user.

11. The computer program product of claim 9, wherein

the analyzing interactions of the user includes analyzing previous user interaction with the video content system to determine the plurality of interest categories.

12. The computer program product of claim 11, wherein the ranking reflects a prediction of the order in which the user desires to view video segments corresponding to the interest categories.

13. The computer program product of claim 9, further comprising:

(e) analyzing the user'"'"'s interactions with the video content system during the display of the customized video programming stream; and

(f) updating the user interest profile based on the analyzing of (e).

14. A customized programming content creation system comprising:

a video content search engine configured to locate and retrieve video segments from a plurality of video content sources;

a hardware storage device configured to store retrieved video segments;

a remote user input interface; and

a processor configured to;

(i) analyze the input received via the remote user input interface to create a user interest profile for a user, the user interest profile comprising a ranked list of a plurality of interest categories and one or more data fields for each interest category;

(ii) direct the video content search engine to locate and retrieve at least one video segment corresponding to each of the interest categories of the user interest profile, identify for each interest category in the user interest profile, one video segment of the at least one video segments with the highest correlation to the one or more data fields for the respective interest category in the user interest profile, and facilitate storing the identified video segment at the storage device; and

(iii) assemble the identified video segments of each interest category in the user interest profile into a customized video programming stream, the video segments ordered in the customized video programming stream based at least in part on the ranking of the plurality of interest categories in the user interest profile.

15. The system of claim 14, further comprising:

a display processor for displaying the customized video programming stream to the user.

16. The system of claim 15, the processor further configured to analyze previous user interaction with the content creation system to determine the plurality of interest categories.