Dynamic display of content consumption by geographic location

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10866974-B2
Application number	US-201916364152-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 25, 2019
Priority date	Mar 12, 2012
Publication date	Dec 15, 2020
Grant date	Dec 15, 2020

Abstract

This disclosure relates to a method for providing a display of content consumption by geographic location. The method includes storing, in a data store, geographic locations of a set of users consuming content items and consumption characteristics of the content items, wherein the content items are identified by user devices at the geographic locations while the content items are played by source devices external to the user devices, and wherein information about a content item of the identified content items, which is consumed by a user of the set of users, is transmitted to the server system by a user device of the user. The method also includes extracting, from the data store, geographic locations of consumption and a set of consumption characteristics of each content item of the identified content items, wherein the set of consumption characteristics comprises a title and times of consumption of the content item by the set of users. The method further includes filtering the identified content items based on at least one filter that pertains to times of content consumption by the set of users, ranking the filtered content items based on the geographic locations of consumptions and consumption statistics, selecting, from the ranked content items, popular content items at particular geographic locations of consumption and over a time period, and generating a geographic map displaying to a user each of the selected popular content items at one or more of the particular geographic locations of consumption, the map to display a title and an icon to represent each of the selected popular content items.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A system, comprising:
a memory; and
a processor, coupled to the memory, to:
store, in a data store, geographic locations of a set of users consuming content items and consumption characteristics of the content items, wherein the content items are identified by user devices at the geographic locations while the content items are played by source devices external to the user devices, and wherein information about a content item of the identified content items, which is consumed by a user of the set of users, is transmitted to a server system by a user device of the user;
extract, from the data store, geographic locations of consumption and a set of consumption characteristics of each content item of the identified content items, wherein the set of consumption characteristics comprises a title and times of consumption of a respective content item by the set of users;
filter the identified content items based on at least one filter that pertains to times of content consumption by the set of users;
rank the filtered content items based on the geographic locations of consumptions and consumption statistics;
select, from the ranked content items, popular content items at particular geographic locations of consumption and over a time period; and
generate a geographic map displaying to a user each of the selected popular content items at one or more of the particular geographic locations of consumption, the map to display a title and an icon to represent each of the selected popular content items.

2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the set of consumption characteristics further comprises at least one of frequency of consumption, devices associated with the consumption, applications associated with the consumption, or a set of data associated with the set of users.

3. The system of claim 1 , wherein the geographic map covers at least one of a globe, a continent, a country, a region, a state, or a city.

4. The system of claim 1 , wherein each of the content items is at least one of a song, movie, television show, internet video, website, video game, application, online article, or electronic book.

5. The system of claim 1 , wherein the processor is further to receive a set of user preferences regarding a display of the geographic map.

6. The system of claim 1 , wherein the processor is further to maintain historical maps of subsets of consumed content items.

7. The system of claim 1 , wherein the processor is to generate the geographic map based on a rendering device's capabilities.

8. The system of claim 1 , wherein the processor is further to:
compare a fingerprint of a consumed content item to a set of fingerprints of known content items; and
recognize, based on the comparison, the consumed content item.

9. A method, comprising:
storing, in a data store, geographic locations of a set of users consuming content items and consumption characteristics of the content items, wherein the content items are identified by user devices at the geographic locations while the content items are played by source devices external to the user devices, and wherein information about a content item of the identified content items, which is consumed by a user of the set of users, is transmitted to a server system by a user device of the user;
extracting, from the data store, geographic locations of consumption and a set of consumption characteristics of each content item of the identified content items, wherein the set of consumption characteristics comprises a title and times of consumption of a respective content item by the set of users;
filtering the identified content items based on at least one filter that pertains to times of content consumption by the set of users;
ranking the filtered content items based on the geographic locations of consumptions and consumption statistics;
selecting, from the ranked content items, popular content items at particular geographic locations of consumption and over a time period; and
generating a geographic map displaying to a user each of the selected popular content items at one or more of the particular geographic locations of consumption, the map to display a title and an icon to represent each of the selected popular content items.

10. The method of claim 9 , wherein the set of consumption characteristics further comprises at least one of frequency of consumption, devices associated with the consumption, applications associated with the consumption, or a set of data associated with the set of users.

11. The method of claim 9 , wherein the geographic map covers at least one of a globe, a continent, a country, a region, a state, or a city.

12. The method of claim 9 , wherein each of the content items is at least one of a song, movie, television show, internet video, website, video game, application, online article, or electronic book.

13. The method of claim 9 , further comprising receiving a set of user preferences regarding a display of the geographic map.

14. The method of claim 9 , further comprising maintaining historical maps of subsets of consumed content items.

15. The method of claim 9 , wherein the geographic map is generated based on a rendering device's capabilities.

16. The method of claim 9 , further comprising:
comparing a fingerprint of a consumed content item to a set of fingerprints of known content items; and
recognizing, based on the comparison, the consumed content item.

17. The method of claim 9 , further comprising generating the map in real-time as a custom map based on user preferences.

18. A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising instructions, which when executed by a processing device, cause the processing device to perform operations comprising:
storing, in a data store, geographic locations of a set of users consuming content items and consumption characteristics of the content items, wherein the content items are identified by user devices at the geographic locations while the content items are played by source devices external to the user devices, and wherein information about a content item of the identified content items, which is consumed by a user of the set of users, is transmitted to a server system by a user device of the user;
extracting, from the data store, geographic locations of consumption and a set of consumption characteristics of each content item of the identified content items, wherein the set of consumption characteristics comprises a title and times of consumption of a respective content item by the set of users;
filtering the identified content items based on at least one filter that pertains to times of content consumption by the set of users;
ranking the filtered content items based on the geographic locations of consumptions and consumption statistics;
selecting, from the ranked content items, popular content items at particular geographic locations of consumption and over a time period; and
generating a geographic map displaying to a user each of the selected popular content items at one or more of the particular geographic locations of consumption, the map to display a title and an icon to represent each of the selected popular content items.

19. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 18 , wherein the set of consumption characteristics further comprises at least one of frequency of consumption, devices associated with the consumption, applications associated with the consumption, or a set of data associated with the set of users.

20. The non-transitory computer readable medium

Assignees

• Google Llc

Inventors

• Sharifi Matthew
• Chen Annie
• Roblek Dominik

Classifications

• G06Q10/0637 Primary

  Strategic management or analysis, e.g. setting a goal or target of an organisation; Planning actions based on goals; Analysis or evaluation of effectiveness of goals · CPC title

• G06F16/9537

  Spatial or temporal dependent retrieval, e.g. spatiotemporal queries · CPC title

• G09B29/007

  using computer methods · CPC title

• G06F16/29 Primary

  Geographical information databases · CPC title

• G06F16/78

  Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually · CPC title