Emotionally relevant content

• US 9,613,033 B2
• Filed: 08/29/2014
• Issued: 04/04/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 08/29/2014
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: R2 Solutions LLC (Acacia Research Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Yahoo! Inc. (Apollo Global Management, Inc.)
• Inventors: Oskooi, Shirin, Pelleg, Dan, Maarek, Yoelle, Kothari, Samiksha Harish
• Primary Examiner(s): HUYNH, CONG LAC T
• Application Number:
  US14/472,430
• Publication Number:
  US 20160063004A1
• Time in Patent Office: 949 Days
• Field of Search: 715230, 715231, 715233
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/4393 Multimedia presentations, e.g. slide shows, multimedia albums
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/011 Emotion or mood input determined on the basis of sensed human body parameters such as pulse, heart rate or beat, temperature of skin, facial expressions, iris, voice pitch, brain activity patterns
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/011 Arrangements for interaction with the human body, e.g. for user immersion in virtual reality blind teaching G09B21/00
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/023 Arrangements for converting discrete items of information into a coded form, e.g. arrangements for interpreting keyboard generated codes as alphanumeric codes, operand codes or instruction codes
• 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: H04L 67/10 in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/25891 being end-user preferences retrieval of video data in a video database based on user preferences G06F16/739; arrangements for recognizing users' preferences H04H60/46; 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 21/458 Scheduling content for creating a personalised stream, e.g. by combining a locally stored advertisement with an incoming stream; Updating operations, e.g. for OS modules ; time-related management operations arrangements for replacing or switching information during the broadcast or during the distribution H04H20/10
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4755 for defining user preferences, e.g. favourite actors or genre retrieval personalisation and generation of user profiles for the retrieval of video data G06F16/739; user profiles in network data switching protocols H04L67/306
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/20 Services signaling; Auxiliary data signalling, i.e. transmitting data via a non-traffic channel
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/23 for mobile advertising

Abstract

Users may engage with content that may invoke various emotions. For example, a user may find an image as inspirational, a social network post as funny, etc. Accordingly, content may be labeled with user emotion labels, specified by users that engaged with the content, to create labeled content (e.g., the image may be labeled as inspirational). Emotional transition triggers may be defined for users (e.g., 30 minutes of a user writing a school report using a word processing application). Responsive to a triggering of an emotional transition trigger, labeled content may be provided to a user (e.g., the image may be provided to the user as an inspirational break from writing the school report). In this way, content may be labeled based upon emotions that the content invokes in users, and such labeled content may be provided to users in a contextually relevant manner (e.g., a study break).

Claims

1. A method for providing emotionally relevant content to users, comprising:

receiving, from a first user, a user emotion label for content;

labeling the content based upon the user emotion label to create labeled content;

defining an emotional transition trigger for a second user comprising defining a timeout trigger for a first emotional content type; and

responsive to a triggering of the emotional transition trigger comprising the second user consuming content of the first emotional content type for a threshold amount of time corresponding to the timeout trigger, providing the labeled content to the second user based upon the labeled content having a second emotional content type different than the first emotional content type.

2. The method of claim 1, the receiving a user emotion label comprising:

providing an emotion labeling interface comprising a set of emotions for selection by the first user; and

receiving a selection of an emotion by the first user, from the emotion labeling interface, as the user emotion label for the content.

3. The method of claim 1, the user emotion label comprising at least one of a happy emotion label, a non-work emotion label, a non-school emotion label, an inspirational emotion label, or a funny emotion label.

4. The method of claim 1, the user emotion label determined based upon at least one of a selection of a first emotion labelling interface for a question or a selection of a second emotion labelling interface for an answer to the question.

5. The method of claim 1, the first emotional content type comprising at least one of a work content type, an educational content type, or a serious content type, and the second emotional content type having at least one of a funny content type, an entertainment content type, or an inspirational content type.

6. The method of claim 1, the defining an emotional transition trigger comprising defining a user input pattern as the emotional transition trigger, and the providing the labeled content comprising responsive to user input of the second user corresponding to the user input pattern, providing the labeled content.

7. The method of claim 6, the user input pattern comprising at least one of a typing speed pattern, a click speed pattern, an eye gaze tracking pattern, or a gesture pattern.

8. The method of claim 1, the providing the labeled content comprising:

displaying the labeled content through at least one of a website interface element of a website with which the second user is engaged or an application interface element of an application with which the second user is engaged.

9. The method of claim 1, the providing the labeled content comprising:

displaying the labeled content through a slide show; and

updating the slide show with additional labeled content based upon a slide show view setting.

10. The method of claim 1, the providing the labeled content comprising:

providing the labeled content to the second user responsive to the user emotion label corresponding to a user emotion preference specified by the second user.

11. The method of claim 1,

providing the labeled content to the second user for a second threshold amount of time;

and

responsive to expiration of the second threshold amount of time;

removing the labeled content; and

transitioning the second user to the first emotional content type of content.

12. The method of claim 1, the content comprising at least one of a website, a website element, a question from a question and answer service, a user interface element of an application, an answer from the question and answer service, video content, an image, a social network post, an article, textual content, or audio content.

13. The method of claim 1, the user emotion label corresponding to a first emotion label type, and the labeling the content comprising:

responsive to receiving a threshold number of user emotion labels, of the first emotion label type, for the content from a plurality of users, labeling the content with the user emotion label.

14. The method of claim 1, the labeling the content comprising:

assigning a rank to the user emotion label based upon at least one of a number of users that labeled the content with the user emotion label, a rate at which users labeled the content with the user emotion label, a percentage of content that is labeled with the user emotion label, or a percentage of content that is not labeled with a user emotion label; and

responsive to the rank being above a threshold rank, labeling the content with the user emotion label.

15. A system for providing emotionally relevant content to users, comprising:

one or more processors; and

memory comprising instructions that when executed by at least one of the one or more processors, implement;

a labeling component configured to;

receive, from a first user, a user emotion label for content; and

label the content based upon the user emotion label to create labeled content, the labeled content having a first emotional content type; and

a content provider component configured to;

define an emotional transition trigger for a second user; and

responsive to a triggering of the emotional transition trigger based upon the second user having a threshold amount of exposure to a second emotional content type of content that is different than the first emotional content type, provide the labeled content to the second user.

16. The system of claim 15, the labeling component configured to:

provide an emotion labeling interface comprising a set of emotions for selection by the first user; and

receive a selection of an emotion by the first user, from the emotion labeling interface, as the user emotion label for the content.

17. The system of claim 15, the content provider component configured to:

display the labeled content through at least one of a website interface element of a website with which the second user is engaged or an application interface element of an application with which the second user is engaged.

18. The system of claim 15, the content provider component configured to:

display the labeled content through a slide show; and

update the slide show with additional labeled content based upon a slide show view setting.

19. The system of claim 15, the content provider component configured to:

provide the labeled content to the second user responsive to the user emotion label corresponding to a user emotion preference specified by the second user.

20. A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising computer executable instructions that when executed by a processor perform a method for providing emotionally relevant content to users, comprising:

receiving, from a first user, a user emotion label for content, the user emotion label comprising at least one of an inspirational emotion label or a funny emotion label;

labeling the content based upon the user emotion label to create labeled content;

defining an emotional transition trigger for a second user; and

responsive to triggering of the emotional transition trigger based upon the second user having a threshold amount of exposure to at least one of non-inspirational content type of content or non-funny content type of content, providing the labeled content to the second user.