Personalized calendar for digital media content-related events

• US 10,860,987 B2
• Filed: 12/19/2016
• Issued: 12/08/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 12/19/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Cvetkovic, Milan, Voshell, Wesley Curtis, Koyama, Ashley Christine, Yee, Helen
• Primary Examiner(s): Loftis, Johnna R
• Application Number:
  US15/384,108
• Publication Number:
  US 20180174110A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,450 Days
• Field of Search: 705 719
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/1095 Meeting or appointment
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/06 Buying, selling or leasing transactions

Abstract

A system for providing a personalized calendar comprises a server that hosts a database storing digital product event data, which associates a plurality of digital products with respective digital products event dates. The server repeatedly updates the digital product event data in the database, provides a user interface for a user, with the user interface being displayable on a remote user device of the user and includes a calendar widget personalized for the user based on a user account. The server further converts at least one portion of the digital product event data to display it through the calendar widget. The server can also receive user input indicating a date and identify a digital product associated with that date. In response to the input, the server modifies the user interface to display, in addition to the calendar widget, a digital product widget associated with the identified digital product.

Claims

1. A system for providing a personalized calendar, the system comprising:

a server including at least one processor, a non-transitory computer-readable medium including a computer-executable program code, and a network interface configured to operatively connect the server with a plurality of remote user devices; and

at least one database hosted by the server, the at least one database storing digital product event data, the digital product event data associating a plurality of digital products with respective digital products event dates, the digital product event data being selected from a plurality of remote sources and stored, by the server, to the at least one database, the plurality of remote sources providing the plurality of digital products;

wherein, when the computer-executable program code is executed by the at least one processor, the at least one processor;

repeatedly updates the digital product event data in the at least one database;

provides a user interface for a user of a user account, the user interface being displayable on a remote user device of the user, wherein the user interface includes a calendar widget personalized for the user based on the user account, the calendar widget being displayed in a first portion of the user interface;

converts at least one portion of the digital product event data into one or more graphical elements to display the at least one portion of the digital product event data through the calendar widget in a form of the one or more graphical elements, wherein the calendar widget includes a plurality of day widgets and wherein, upon selection of each of the plurality of day widgets by the user, the each of the plurality of day widgets is displayed in a second portion of the user interface, the second portion being different from the first portion;

during the displaying of the at least one portion of the digital product event data, receive, from the user, an input requesting an access to one or more digital products of the plurality of digital products, the one or more digital products being associated with the at least one portion of the digital product event data; and

based on the input, grant, to the remote user device, the access to one of the plurality of remote sources to enable the user to access the one or more digital product via the remote user device, the one of the plurality of remote sources providing the one or more digital products.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the user interface enables the user to review, purchase, and at least partially download the one or more digital products via the remote user device.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein each of the plurality of day widgets is uniquely associated with a particular day or time.

4. The system of claim 3, wherein, when the computer-executable program code is executed by the at least one processor, the at least one processor further:

modifies the calendar widget to display one or more icons of the plurality of digital products inside selected day widgets based on the digital product event data, wherein each of the icons is associated with one of the plurality of digital products.

5. The system of claim 4, wherein at least one of the icons is associated with a release date of a digital product.

6. The system of claim 4, wherein at least one of the icons is associated with a featured digital product.

7. The system of claim 3, wherein, when the computer-executable program code is executed by the at least one processor, the at least one processor further:

determines that the input indicates a particular date;

identifies at least one of the plurality of digital products that is associated with the particular date of the selection from the user based on the digital product event data stored in the database; and

in response to the selection from the user, modifies the user interface to display, in addition to the calendar widget, at least one digital product widget, wherein the at least one digital product widget is associated with at least one identified digital product.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein the at least one digital product widget includes:

a graphic element for identifying a respective digital product;

a first actionable button, which, when enabled by the user, cause launching a software application corresponding to the respective digital product;

a second actionable button, which, when enabled by the user, cause liking or featuring the respective digital product; and

a third actionable button, which, when enabled by the user, cause creating a notification rule associated with the respective digital product.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein, when the computer-executable program code is executed by the at least one processor, the at least one processor further:

provides a notification message to the user via the user interface based on the notification rule.

10. A computer-implemented method for providing a personalized calendar, the method comprising:

maintaining, by a server, a user account;

maintaining, by the server, at least one database storing digital product event data, the digital product event data associating a plurality of digital products with respective digital products event dates, the digital product event data being selected from a plurality of remote sources and stored, by the server, to the at least one database, the plurality of remote sources providing the plurality of digital products;

repeatedly updating, by the server, the digital product event data in the at least one database;

providing, by the server, a user interface for a user of the user account, the user interface being displayable on a remote user device of the user, wherein the user interface includes a calendar widget personalized for the user based on the user account, the calendar widget being displayed in a first portion of the user interface;

converting, by the server, at least one portion of the digital product event data into one or more graphical elements to display the at least one portion of the digital product event data through the calendar widget in a form of the one or more graphical elements, wherein the calendar widget includes a plurality of day widgets and wherein, upon selection of each of the plurality of day widgets by the user, the each of the plurality of day widgets is displayed in a second portion of the user interface, the second portion being different from the first portion;

during the displaying of the at least one portion of the digital product event data, receiving, from the user, an input requesting an access to one or more digital products of the plurality of digital products, the one or more digital products being associated with the at least one portion of the digital product event data; and

based on the input, granting, to the remote user device, the access to one of the plurality of remote sources to enable the user to access the one or more digital products via the remote user device, the one of the plurality of remote sources providing the one or more digital products.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the user interface enables the user to review, purchase, and at least partially download the one or more digital products via the remote user device.

12. The method of claim 10, wherein each of the plurality of day widgets is associated with a particular date.

13. The method of claim 12, further comprising:

modifying, by the server, the calendar widget to display one or more icons of the plurality of digital products inside selected day widgets based on the digital product event data, wherein each of the icons is associated with one of the plurality of digital products.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein at least one of the icons is associated with a release date of a digital product.

15. The method of claim 13, wherein at least one of the icons is associated with a featured digital product.

16. The method of claim 12, further comprising:

determining that the input indicates a particular date;

identifying, by the server, at least one of the plurality of digital products that is associated with the particular date of the input based on the digital product event data stored in the database; and

in response to the input, modifying, by the server, the user interface to display, in addition to the calendar widget, at least one digital product widget, wherein the at least one digital product widget is associated with at least one identified digital product.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein the at least one digital product widget includes a graphic element for identifying a respective digital product, a first actionable button, which, when enabled by the user, cause launching a software application corresponding to the respective digital product, a second actionable button, which, when enabled by the user, cause liking or featuring the respective digital product, and a third actionable button, which, when enabled by the user, cause creating a notification rule associated with the respective digital product.

18. The method of claim 17, further comprising providing, by the server, a notification message to the user via the user interface based on the notification rule.

19. The method of claim 10, wherein the plurality of digital products includes at least video-on-demand content and at least one network computer game.

20. A non-transitory processor-readable medium having instructions stored thereon, which when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to implement a method, the method comprising:

maintaining, by a server, a user account;

maintaining, by the server, at least one database storing digital product event data, wherein the digital product event data associates a plurality of digital products with respective digital products event dates, the digital product event data being selected from a plurality of remote sources and stored, by the server, to the at least one database, the plurality of remote sources providing the plurality of digital products;

repeatedly updating, by the server, the digital product event data in the at least one database;

providing, by the server, a user interface for a user of the user account, the user interface being displayable on a remote user device of the user, wherein the user interface includes a calendar widget personalized for the user based on the user account, the calendar widget being displayed in a first portion of the user interface;

converting, by the server, at least one portion of the digital product event data into one or more graphical elements to display the at least one portion of the digital product event data through the calendar widget in a form of the one or more graphical elements, wherein the calendar widget includes a plurality of day widgets and wherein, upon selection of each of the plurality of day widgets by the user, the each of the plurality of day widgets is displayed in a second portion of the user interface, the second portion being different from the first portion;

during the displaying of the at least one portion of the digital product event data, receiving, from the user, an input requesting an access to one or more digital products of the plurality of digital products, the one or more digital products being associated with the at least one portion of the digital product event data; and

based on the input, granting, to the remote user device, the access to one of the plurality of remote sources to enable the user to access the one or more digital products via the remote user device, the one of the plurality of remote sources providing the one or more digital products.