Systems and methods for providing media content listings according to points of interest

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11632593-B2
Application number	US-202117167639-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 4, 2021
Priority date	May 13, 2010
Publication date	Apr 18, 2023
Grant date	Apr 18, 2023

Abstract

Systems and methods are provided for allowing a user to obtain a listing of points of interest and associated media content listings based on the user's current geographic location. The user's current geographic location may be determined using, for example, a GPS transceiver incorporated in the user's user access device. Information may then be communicated from a remote server to the user access device that identifies points of interest associated with the geographic location as well as media content listings associated with the points of interest.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method for delivering media content, the method comprising:
at one or more servers:
receiving a first geographic location;
receiving information indicative of a plurality of media content from a plurality of devices;
searching an electronic database of media content data to identify at least one landmark associated with the first geographic location, to determine that the at least one landmark does not have a line of sight to the geographic location, and to identify a subset of media content of the plurality of media content that is associated with the at least one landmark, wherein each media content of the subset of media content corresponds to a different video asset;
identifying a landmark geographic location; and
providing data indicative of the subset of media content and data indicative of the landmark geographic location using a communications network.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein receiving the first geographic location comprises receiving geographic location information from a user equipment device.

3. The method of claim 1 , further comprising causing the generation of a display at a user equipment device that simultaneously comprises an indication of the landmark geographic location and an indication of the subset of media content.

4. The method of claim 3 , wherein causing the generation of the display at the user equipment device that simultaneously comprises an indication of the landmark geographic location and an indication of the subset of media content is based on a degree of interest in each media content of the subset of media content.

5. The method of claim 3 , wherein the display further simultaneously comprises a map associated with the landmark geographic location.

6. The method of claim 3 , wherein the display further simultaneously comprises an indication of the first geographic location.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein each media content of the subset of media content has been populated into the electronic database based on the information received from the plurality of devices.

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein receiving the first geographic location comprises receiving information comprising at least one of the following:
longitude data, latitude data, altitude data, at least a portion of an address, a zip code, a building name, a region, a neighborhood, a district, a county, a country, a city, a state, and a business name.

9. The method of claim 1 , wherein receiving the first geographic location comprises receiving manually entered location information.

10. A system for delivering media content, the system comprising:
at one or more servers comprising processing circuitry configured to:
receive a first geographic location;
receive information indicative of a plurality of media content from a plurality of devices;
search an electronic database of media content data to identify at least one landmark associated with the first geographic location, to determine that the at least one landmark does not have a line of sight to the geographic location, and to identify a subset of media content of the plurality of media content that is associated with the at least one landmark, wherein each media content of the subset of media content corresponds to a different video asset;
identify a landmark geographic location; and
provide data indicative of the subset of media content and data indicative of the landmark geographic location using a communications network.

11. The system of claim 10 , wherein the processing circuitry is further configured to receive the first geographic location by receiving geographic location information from a user equipment device.

12. The system of claim 10 , processing circuitry is further configured to cause the generation of a display at a user equipment device that simultaneously comprises an indication of the landmark geographic location and an indication of the subset of media content.

13. The system of claim 12 , wherein the processing circuitry is further configured to cause the generation of the display at the user equipment device that simultaneously comprises an indication of the landmark geographic location and an indication of the subset of media content based on a degree of interest in each media content of the subset of media content.

14. The system of claim 12 , wherein the display further simultaneously comprises a map associated with the landmark geographic location.

15. The system of claim 12 , wherein the display further simultaneously comprises an indication of the first geographic location.

16. The system of claim 10 , wherein each media content of the subset of media content has been populated into the electronic database based on the information received from the plurality of devices.

17. The system of claim 10 , wherein receiving the first geographic location comprises receiving information comprising at least one of the following: longitude data, latitude data, altitude data, at least a portion of an address, a zip code, a building name, a region, a neighborhood, a district, a county, a country, a city, a state, and a business name.

18. The system of claim 10 , wherein receiving the first geographic location comprises receiving manually entered location information.

Assignees

• Rovi Guides Inc

Inventors

• Hamano Royce

Classifications

• G06F16/9535

  Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation · CPC title

• H04W4/029

  Location-based management or tracking services · CPC title

• G06F16/58

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

• G01S5/0027

  of actual mobile position, i.e. position determined on mobile · CPC title

• G06F16/24575

  using context · CPC title