Presentation of search results to mobile devices based on television viewing history

• US 9,811,589 B2
• Filed: 02/22/2016
• Issued: 11/07/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 09/14/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Blue Hills Series 95 of Allied Security Trust I (Allied Security Trust)
• Original Assignee: Millennial Media, LLC (Verizon Communications Inc.)
• Inventors: Ramer, Jorey, Soroca, Adam, Doughty, Dennis
• Primary Examiner(s): Arjomandi, Noosha
• Application Number:
  US15/050,302
• Publication Number:
  US 20160253342A1
• Time in Patent Office: 624 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/24578 using ranking
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/738 Presentation of query results
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/7867 using information manually generated, e.g. tags, keywords, comments, title and artist information, manually generated time, location and usage information, user ratings
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/53 using third party service providers
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/42348 Location-based services which utilize the location information of a target
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/4878 Advertisement messages
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2407 Monitoring of transmitted content, e.g. distribution time, number of downloads arrangements for monitoring programmes for broadcast or for distribution combined with broadcast H04H20/14
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2668 Creating a channel for a dedicated end-user group, e.g. insertion of targeted commercials based on end-user profiles information retrieval from the Internet by querying with filtering and personalisation G06F16/9535; arrangements for replacing or switching information during the broadcast H04H20/10; push services over packet-switching network H04L12/1859; adaptation of message content in packet-switching networks H04L51/063
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services

Abstract

A system for presenting targeted search results to a mobile communication facility, the system configured to perform the steps of (a) receiving information relating to a viewing history of television content including a plurality of episodes from a series viewed by a user; (b) receiving from the mobile communication facility a search request containing a word; (c) determining that the word is more contextually relevant to the series than search results unrelated to the series, wherein the determination is based on the received viewing history of television content; and (d) transmitting to the mobile communication facility information corresponding to a viewing source for one or more episodes of the series not yet viewed by the user, wherein display of the information corresponding to the viewing source is prioritized over display of the search results unrelated to the series.

Claims

1. One or more non-transitory computer readable device having stored thereon instructions which, when executed by one or more processors of the one or more computers, cause the one or more computers to:

obtain a viewing history of video content consumed by a user on a mobile communication facility, the video content delivered by a carrier of cellular services to the mobile communication facility;

receive from the mobile communication facility a query;

determine that the query is contextually more relevant to the video content than search results unrelated to the video content based on the viewing history; and

direct the mobile communication facility to prioritize a search result from the query, wherein the prioritization is based on the search result being related to the video content consumed by the user, over search results from the query unrelated to the video content consumed by the user.

2. The one or more non-transitory computer readable device of claim 1, wherein the instructions further cause the one or more computers to:

present one or more search results based on a subscription of the user to a third-party content provider for the video content.

3. The one or more non-transitory computer readable device of claim 1, wherein the instructions further cause the one or more computers to:

present one or more search results based on a downloading history of audio content from the carrier.

4. The one or more non-transitory computer readable device of claim 1, wherein the instructions further cause the one or more computers to:

present one or more search results based on a listening history of audio content provided by the carrier.

5. The one or more non-transitory computer readable device of claim 1, wherein the instructions further cause the one or more computers to:

present one or more search results based on timing and duration of viewing the video content delivered by the carrier.

6. The one or more non-transitory computer readable device of claim 1, wherein the video content includes a plurality of episodes of television programs, and wherein the instructions further cause the one or more computers to:

present one or more search results related to the plurality of episodes of television programs.

7. The one or more non-transitory computer readable device of claim 1, wherein the instructions further cause the one or more computers to:

present one or more search results based on bookmarks, made by the user, related to the video content.

8. The one or more non-transitory computer readable device of claim 1, wherein the instructions further cause the one or more computers to:

present one or more search results based on category-based inferences related to a category of the video content.

9. The one or more non-transitory computer readable device of claim 1, wherein the instructions further cause the one or more computers to:

present one or more search results based on regression analysis related to the viewing history of video content.

10. The one or more non-transitory computer readable device of claim 1, wherein the instructions further cause the one or more computers to:

present one or more search results based on neural networks related to the viewing history of video content.

11. The one or more non-transitory computer readable device of claim 1, wherein the instructions further cause the one or more computers to:

present one or more search results based on a hidden query related to the video content.

12. The one or more non-transitory computer readable device of claim 1, wherein the mobile communication facility is a cellular phone.

13. The one or more non-transitory computer readable device of claim 1, wherein the mobile communication facility has an operating system utilizing Mobile Information Device Profile (MIDP) compatible software.

14. The one or more non-transitory computer readable device of claim 1, wherein the instructions further cause the one or more computers to:

obtain the viewing history of video content via a 3G network from the mobile communication facility.

15. A computer-implemented method, comprising:

obtaining a viewing history of video content consumed by a user on a mobile communication facility, the video content delivered by a carrier of cellular services to the mobile communication facility;

receiving a query from the mobile communication facility;

determining that the query is contextually more relevant to the video content than search results unrelated to the video content based on the viewing history; and

direct the mobile communication facility to prioritize a search result from the query, wherein the prioritization is based on the search result being related to the video content consumed by the user, over search results from the query unrelated to the video content consumed by the user.

16. The method of claim 15, further comprising:

presenting one or more search results based on a subscription of the user to a third-party content provider for the video content.

17. The method of claim 15, wherein the video content is a television program, and the method further comprising:

presenting one or more search results related to the television program.

18. The method of claim 15, further comprising:

presenting one or more search results based on timing and duration of viewing the video content delivered by the carrier.

19. The method of claim 15, further comprising:

presenting one or more search results based on bookmarks, made by the user, related to the video content.

20. The method of claim 15, further comprising:

presenting one or more search results based on category-based inferences related to a category of the video content.