SYSTEM AND METHOD OF FILTERING RECOMMENDERS IN A MEDIA ITEM RECOMMENDATION SYSTEM

• US 20090125588A1
• Filed: 11/09/2007
• Published: 05/14/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 11/09/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Concert Technology Corporation
• Original Assignee: Concert Technology Corporation
• Inventors: Farrelly, Eugene Matthew, Black, Gary W.
• Granted Patent: US 9,060,034 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/204
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/635 Filtering based on additional data, e.g. user or group profiles
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/735 Filtering based on additional data, e.g. user or group profiles
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/107 Computer-aided management of electronic mailing [e-mailing]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/212 using filtering or selective blocking
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles

Abstract

A system and method of allowing a recipient to control and customize filtering of recommenders in a media item recommendation system. Filtering recommenders allows the recipient to control from which recommenders media item recommendations can be received. Recommenders may be filtered using a tag associated by the recipient with the recommender. The tag may be any attribute. If the recommender is tagged with the attribute matching a current selection criterion established by the recipient, media item recommendations from the recommender may be sent to the recipient. If the recommender is not tagged with the attribute matching the current selection criterion, the recommender is filtered out and the media item recommendation from the recommender may not be sent to the recipient. The recipient may define the current selection criterion by setting a presentation channel.

Claims

1. A method of filtering recommenders in a media item recommendation system, comprising the steps of:

receiving a media item recommendation for a media item from a recommender intended for a recipient;

determining whether a tag associated with the recommender matches a current selection criterion established by the recipient; and

sending the media item recommendation to the recipient if the tag matches the current selection criterion.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the tag comprises one of a social relationship attribute and a media item attribute.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the current selection criterion is comprised of either a criterion describing a social relationship between the recipient and the recommender, a media item attribute, or both a criterion describing a social relationship between the recipient and the recommender and a media item attribute.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the current selection criterion describes a media item attribute, and the sending the media item recommendation comprises sending the media item recommendation to the recipient if the tag and type of the media item recommendation match the current selection criterion.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the current selection criterion defines a presentation channel.

6. The method of claim 5, further comprising activating the presentation channel, wherein the activating establishes the current selection criterion.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the determining comprises determining whether at least one tag from among a plurality of tags associated with a recommender matches a current selection criteria established by the recipient, and

wherein the sending the media item recommendation comprises sending the media item recommendation to the recipient if the at least one tag among the plurality of tags associated with the recommender matches the current selection criterion.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the current selection criterion defines a presentation channel and further comprising not allowing the presentation channel to be activated until at least one tag among the plurality of tags matches the current selection criteria selected for the presentation channel.

9. The method of claim 7, further comprising the step of providing an alert to the recipient if any of the plurality of tags logically conflict.

10. The method of claim 9, further comprising removing the alert if the tag or tags among the plurality of tags causing the logical conflict is removed.

11. The method of claim 7, wherein the current selection criterion comprises a plurality of current selection criterion established by the recipient, and wherein the sending the media item recommendation comprises sending the media item recommendation to the recipient if the plurality of tags match the plurality of current selection criterion.

12. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

determining if an operational conflict exists for the recommender; and

providing a prompt to the recipient if the operational conflict is determined to exist.

13. The method of claim 12, further comprising removing the prompt if the recipient receives a media item recommendation from the recommender.

14. The method of claim 1, further comprising sharing with the recipient a tag associated with the recommender by a second recipient.

15. A system for filtering recommenders in a media item recommendation system, comprising:

a control system, wherein the control system is adapted to;

receive a media item recommendation for a media item from a recommender intended for a recipient;

determine whether a tag associated with the recommender matches a current selection criterion established by the recipient; and

send the media item recommendation to the recipient if the tag matches the current selection criterion.

16. The system of claim 15, wherein the tag comprises one of a social relationship attribute and a media item attribute.

17. The system of claim 15, wherein the current selection criterion describes a social relationship between the recipient and the recommender.

18. The system of claim 15, wherein the current selection criterion describes a media item attribute, and wherein the control system is adapted to send the media item recommendation to the recipient if the tag and the media item attribute match the current selection criterion.

19. The system of claim 15, wherein the current selection criterion defines a presentation channel.

20. The system of claim 19, wherein the control system is further adapted to activate the presentation channel, wherein activating the presentation channel establishes the current selection criterion.

21. The system of claim 15, wherein the control system is adapted to determine whether the tag associated with the recommender matches the current selection criterion established by the recipient by determining whether at least one tag among a plurality of tags associated with the recommender matches a current selection criterion established by the recipient, and

wherein the control system is adapted to send the media item recommendation to the recipient if the at least one tag among the plurality of tags associated with the recommender matches the current selection criterion.

22. The system of claim 21, wherein the current selection criterion is one of a plurality of current selection criterion, and wherein the control system is adapted to send the media item recommendation to the recipient if the plurality of tags matches the plurality of the current selection criterion.

23. A computer-readable medium comprising instructions for instructing a computer to:

receive a media item recommendation for a media item from a recommender intended for a recipient;

determine whether a tag associated with the recommender matches a current selection criterion established by the recipient; and

send the media item recommendation to the recipient if the tag matches the current selection criterion.

24. The computer-readable medium of claim 23, wherein the current selection criterion describes a media item attribute, and wherein the instruction to send the media item recommendation comprises an instruction to send the media item recommendation to the recipient if the tag and the media item match the current selection criterion.

25. A user interface generated by a computer application executing on a processor, comprising:

a friends list screen, comprising;

a friend'"'"'s name field, wherein the friend'"'"'s name field lists a recommender in a media item recommendation system;

a friend'"'"'s tag field, wherein the friend'"'"'s tag field lists a tag associated with the recommender; and

a presentation channel field, wherein the presentation channel field indicates whether criterion defining a presentation channel matches the tag associated with the recommender.