Display of videos based on referrers

• US 9,135,224 B1
• Filed: 12/28/2013
• Issued: 09/15/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 01/20/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Google Inc. (Alphabet Inc.)
• Inventors: Winkler, Adam, Rajaraman, Shivakumar Littoo
• Primary Examiner(s): KINSAUL, DANIEL W
• Application Number:
  US14/142,843
• Time in Patent Office: 626 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/954 Navigation, e.g. using categorised browsing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/134 Hyperlinking
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0254 based on statistics
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2743 Video hosting of uploaded data from client
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4826 using recommendation lists, e.g. of programs or channels sorted out according to their score

Abstract

A system and method for determining popularity of a video based in part on requests for the video received from a referrer, grouping videos whose popularity based on requests from referrers exceeds a threshold and displaying those videos in a channel or providing them in a web feed.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

receiving on a client device a request to view a first page of a video hosting site;

displaying on the client device the first page received from the video hosting site, the first page including representations of a plurality of third party websites that include embedded videos hosted by the video hosting site; and

responsive to receiving on the client device a request to view a second page of the video hosting website associated with a third party website from the plurality, displaying on the client device the second page received from the video hosting site, the second page including representations of a plurality of videos hosted by the video hosting site and embedded on the third party website, for each of the plurality of videos a representation of the video is included on the second page in response to a percentage exceeding a threshold, the percentage indicating from a total number of requests to view the video a number of requests initiated through the third party website.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein each of the plurality of videos is embedded on the third party website via a hyperlink to the video hosting site.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the second page indicates that the plurality of videos are embedded on the third party website.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein a video from the plurality of videos is embedded in a plurality of web pages of the third party website.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein for each of the plurality of third party websites the first page includes an image of a video embedded on the third party website.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein each video that includes an image on the first page is related to a genre associated with the first page.

7. A computer system comprising:

one or more computer processors; and

a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having computer-executable instructions that configure the one or more processors to;

receive a request to view a first page of a video hosting site;

display the first page received from the video hosting site, the first page including representations of a plurality of third party websites that include embedded videos hosted by the video hosting site; and

display a second page associated with a third party website from the plurality and received from the video hosting site in response to receiving a request to view the second page, the second page including representations of a plurality of videos hosted by the video hosting site and embedded on the third party website, for each of the plurality of videos a representation of the video is included on the second page in response to a percentage exceeding a threshold, the percentage indicating from a total number of requests to view the video a number of requests initiated through the third party website.

8. The computer system of claim 7, wherein each of the plurality of videos is embedded on the third party website via a hyperlink to the video hosting site.

9. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having computer-executable instructions that configure one or more processors to perform steps comprising:

receiving on a client device a request to view a first page of a video hosting site;

displaying on the client device the first page received from the video hosting site, the first page including representations of a plurality of third party websites that include embedded videos hosted by the video hosting site; and

responsive to receiving on the client device a request to view a second page of the video hosting website associated with a third party website from the plurality, displaying on the client device the second page received from the video hosting site, the second page including representations of a plurality of videos hosted by the video hosting site and embedded on the third party website, for each of the plurality of videos a representation of the video is included on the second page in response to a percentage exceeding a threshold, the percentage indicating from a total number of requests to view the video a number of requests initiated through the third party website.

10. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 9, wherein each of the plurality of videos is embedded on the third party website via a hyperlink to the video hosting site.

11. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 9, wherein the second page indicates that the plurality of videos are embedded on the third party website.

12. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 9, wherein a video from the plurality of videos is embedded in a plurality of web pages of the third party website.

13. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 9, wherein for each of the plurality of third party websites the first page includes an image of a video embedded on the third party website.

14. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 13, wherein each video that includes an image on the first page is related to a genre associated with the first page.