Methods and systems for recommending media assets based on the geographic location at which the media assets are frequently consumed

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11622151-B2
Application number	US-202117180304-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 19, 2021
Priority date	Mar 30, 2017
Publication date	Apr 4, 2023
Grant date	Apr 4, 2023

Abstract

Methods and systems are provided herein for recommending a media asset based on a geographic location at which that media asset was frequently consumed. For example, the system may monitor a location, such as New York City or Times Square, to determine popular media assets watched there, such as “The Avengers,” and when another user visits New York City, the system may then notify the user that the movie, such as “The Avengers,” is associated with New York City. The system stores the geographic locations associated with the media asset in the database based on the consumption of the media asset so that other users may be notified which media assets are associated with each geographic location.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method comprising:
detecting a geographical location at which a content provider account is being accessed;
collecting, from a plurality of accounts associated with the geographical location, historical user interaction data corresponding to a number of past user interactions with each respective media content item of a plurality of media content items, wherein the historical user interaction data comprises data indicating popularity of each of the plurality of media content items in the geographical location;
identifying for recommendation, based on the collected historical user interaction data, a plurality of media content items popular in the geographical location among the plurality of accounts; and
generating for display a plurality of recommendations of the identified media content items, wherein the plurality of recommendations comprise a plurality of identical graphical indicators of the popularity of the identified media content items, wherein a first recommendation of the plurality of recommendations of the identified media content items is displayed at a first portion of the display, and a second recommendation of the plurality of recommendations of the identified media content items is displayed at a second portion of the display, and an identified media content item corresponding to the first recommendation is identical to an identified media content item corresponding to the second recommendation.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the geographical location is a country.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein detecting the geographical location at which the content provider account is being accessed comprises tracking a location of a computing device accessing the content provider account.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein identifying for recommendation, based on the collected historical user interaction data, the plurality of media content items popular in the geographical location comprises:
determining a number of users who have viewed each of the plurality of media content items; and
identifying, based on the number of users who have viewed each of the plurality of media assets, a media content item for recommendation.

5. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
identifying for recommendation, a plurality of media content items; and
generating for display a list of the plurality of identified media content items popular in the geographic location.

6. The method of claim 5 , further comprising generating popularity scores for each of the identified media content items and sorting the list based on the generated popularity scores.

7. The method of claim 6 , wherein the list is updated and sorted on a daily basis.

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein generating for display the identical graphical indicators for the first and second recommendations of the identified media content item comprises generating respective information badges comprising a popularity indicator for the media content item.

9. The method of claim 1 , wherein the historical user interaction data corresponds to historical viewing instances from one day.

10. The method of claim 1 , wherein the historical user interaction data corresponds to cumulative amounts of historical viewing instances for each of the plurality of media content items.

11. The method of claim 1 , wherein each of the plurality of recommendations comprises a same string of characters.

12. The method of claim 1 , wherein each of the plurality of recommendations are displayed adjacent to each other.

13. The method of claim 1 , wherein the identified media content items are electronically consumable assets and are not channels.

14. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first portion of the display is adjacent to the second portion of the display.

15. The method of claim 8 , wherein:
generating for display the first recommendation of the identified media content item includes generating for display an image related to the identified media content item;
generating for display the second recommendation of the identified media content item includes generating for display an image related to the identified media content item; and
for each of the first recommendation and the second recommendation, the respective information badges comprising the popularity indicator for the identified media content item overlap the image related to the identified media content item.

16. A system comprising:
a memory storing instructions; and
control circuitry configured to execute the instructions to:
detect a geographical location at which a content provider account is being accessed;
collect, from a plurality of accounts associated with the geographical location, historical user interaction data corresponding to a number of past user interactions with each respective media content item of a plurality of media content items, wherein the historical user interaction data comprises data indicating popularity of each of the plurality of media content items in the geographical location;
identify for recommendation, based on the collected historical user interaction data, a plurality of media content items popular in the geographical location among the plurality of accounts; and
generate for display a plurality of recommendations of the identified media content items, wherein the plurality of recommendations comprise a plurality of identical graphical indicators of the popularity of the identified media content items, wherein a first recommendation of the plurality of recommendations of the identified media content items is displayed at a first portion of the display, and a second recommendation of the plurality of recommendations of the identified media content items is displayed at a second portion of the display, and an identified media content item corresponding to the first recommendation is identical to an identified media content item corresponding to the second recommendation.

17. The system of claim 16 , wherein the control circuitry is configured to detect the geographical location is a country.

18. The system of claim 16 , wherein control circuitry is further configured to detect the geographical location at which the content provider account is being accessed by tracking a location of a computing device accessing the content provider account.

19. The system of claim 16 , wherein the control circuitry configured to identify for recommendation, based on the collected historical user interaction data, the plurality of media content items popular in the geographical location by:
determining a number of users who have viewed each of the plurality of media content items; and
identifying, based on the number of users who have viewed each of the plurality of media assets, a media content item for recommendation.

20. The system of claim 16 , wherein the control circuitry is further configured to:
identify for recommendation, a plurality of media content items; and
generate for display a list of the plurality of identified media content items popular in the geographic location.

21. The system of claim 20 , wherein the control circuitry is further configured to generate popularity scores for each the identified media content items and sort the list based on the generated popularity scores.

22. The system of claim 21 , wherein the control circuitry is further configured to update and sort the list on a daily basis.

23. The system of claim 16 , wherein the control circuitry is further configu

Assignees

• Rovi Guides Inc

Inventors

• Dalbec Gabriel C
• Logan Jonathan A
• Gupta Ajay Kumar
• Liston Alexander W
• Thomas William L
• Schmidt Margret B
• Burns Mathew C

Classifications

• H04N21/4826

  using recommendation lists, e.g. of programmes or channels sorted out according to their score · CPC title

• G06F16/29

  Geographical information databases · CPC title

• H04N21/252

  Processing of multiple end-users' preferences to derive collaborative data · CPC title

• G06Q30/0261

  based on user location · CPC title

• H04N21/251

  Learning process for intelligent management, e.g. learning user preferences for recommending movies (details of learning user preferences for the retrieval of video data in a video database G06F16/739; computer systems using learning methods G06N3/08) · CPC title