User interface methods and systems for selecting and presenting content based on user relationships

• US 10,146,840 B2
• Filed: 07/07/2015
• Issued: 12/04/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 04/20/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Veveo, Inc. (Adeia Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Veveo, Inc. (Adeia Inc.)
• Inventors: Aravamudan, Murali, Ramakrishnan, Kajamalai G., Barve, Rakesh, Venkataraman, Sashikumar, Rajasekharan, Ajit
• Primary Examiner(s): AL HASHEMI, SANA A
• Application Number:
  US14/793,074
• Publication Number:
  US 20150324367A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,246 Days
• Field of Search: 707607, 707609, 707687, 707705, 707790, 707813, 707821
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/24578 using ranking
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/248 Presentation of query results
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/335 Filtering based on additional data, e.g. user or group profiles filtering in web context G06F16/9535, G06F16/9536
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9538 Presentation of query results
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99933 Query processing, i.e. searching
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99934 Query formulation, input preparation, or translation
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99935 Query augmenting and refining, e.g. inexact access
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99942 Manipulating data structure, e.g. compression, compaction, compilation
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99943 Generating database or data structure, e.g. via user interface

Abstract

A user-interface method of selecting and presenting a collection of content items based on user navigation and selection actions associated with the content is provided. The method includes associating a relevance weight on a per user basis with content items to indicate a relative measure of likelihood that the user desires the content item. The method includes receiving a user'"'"'s navigation and selections actions for identifying desired content items, and in response, adjusting the associated relevance weight of the selected content item and group of content items containing the selected item. The method includes, in response to subsequent user input, selecting and presenting a subset of content items and content groups to the user ordered by the adjusted associated relevance weights assigned to the content items and content groups.

Claims

1. A method for generating for display identifiers of videos, the method comprising:

retrieving, using control circuitry, from a database at a server, data indicating a relationship between a first user and a second user, wherein the data is based on information indicating a frequency at which the first user and the second user interacted during a first period of time;

making a determination that a video is relevant to the first user;

in response to determining that the video is relevant to the first user, assigning a first relevance weight of the video to the second user based on the frequency at which the first user and the second user interacted during the first period of time;

receiving information indicating a frequency at which the first user and the second user interacted during a second period of time;

determining that the frequency at which the first user and the second user interacted during the second period of time is more than the frequency at which the first user and the second user interacted during the first period of time;

in response to determining that the frequency at which the first user and the second user interacted during the second period of time is more than the frequency at which the first user and the second user interacted during the first period of time;

increasing the first relevance weight of the video to the second user; and

generating, for display in a user interface of the second user, an identifier of the video, wherein placement of the identifier of the video in the user interface is based on the first relevance weight of the video to the second user.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising calculating a second relevance weight that reflects an amount of relevance of the video to the first user.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the data indicating the relationship between the first user and the second user is based on information indicating that the first user and the second user belong to a same group.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the first determination is based on receiving a selection of the video by the first user.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the first determination is based on receiving a search for the video performed by the first user.

7. The method of claim 1, comprising:

recording the amount of interaction between the first user and the second user dining the first period of time.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving, using the control circuitry, a selection of the identifier of the video from the second user; and

in response to receiving the selection, generating the video for display for the second user.

16. The method of claim 3, wherein the first determination is based on the second relevance weight.

2. A system for generating for display identifiers of videos, the system comprising control circuitry configured to:

retrieve, from a database at a server, data indicating a relationship between a first user and a second user, wherein the data is based on information indicating a frequency at which the first user and the second user interacted during a first period of time;

make a determination that a video is relevant to the first user;

in response to determining that the video is relevant to the first user, assign a first relevance weight of the video to the second user based on the frequency at which the first user and the second user interacted during the first period of time;

receive information indicating a frequency at which the first user and the second user interacted during a second period of time;

determine that the frequency at which the first user and the second user interacted during the second period of time is more than the frequency at which the first user and the second user interacted during the first period of time;

in response to determining that the frequency at which the first user and the second user interacted during the second period of time is more than the frequency at which the first user and the second user interacted during the first period of time;

increase the first relevance weight of the video to the second user; and

generate, for display in a user interface of the second user, an identifier of the video, wherein placement of the identifier of the video in the user interface is based on the first relevance weight of the video to the second user.

9. The system of claim 2, wherein the control circuitry is further configured to calculate a second relevance weight that reflects an amount of relevance of the video to the first user.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein the first determination is based on the second relevance weight.

11. The system of claim 2, wherein the data indicating the relationship between the first user and the second user is based on information indicating that the first user and the second user belong to a same group.

12. The system of claim 2, wherein the control circuitry is further configured to make the first determination based on receiving a selection of the video by the first user.

13. The system of claim 2, wherein the control circuitry is further configured to make the first determination based on receiving a search for the video performed by the first user.

14. The system of claim 2, wherein the control circuitry is further configured to:

record the amount of interaction between the first user and the second user during the first period of time.

15. The system of claim 2, wherein the control circuitry is further configured to:

receive a selection of the identifier of the video from the second user; and

generate the video for display for the second user in response to receiving the selection.