Methods, systems, and media for presenting related media content items

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11816111-B2
Application number	US-202016798647-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 24, 2020
Priority date	Nov 19, 2014
Publication date	Nov 14, 2023
Grant date	Nov 14, 2023

Abstract

Methods, systems, and media for presenting related media content items are provided. In accordance with some implementations, a method for providing media guidance is provided, the method comprising: receiving, from a user device, a search query for a media content item; determining a plurality of media content items that are related to the media content item; determining a plurality of keywords associated with each of the plurality of related media content items; generating a document containing the plurality of keywords that are associated with each of the plurality of related media content items; calculating a score for each of the plurality of keywords in the document based on a term frequency and an inverse document frequency for each of the plurality of keywords; selecting a first keyword from a list of the plurality of keywords based at least in part on the calculated score; determining a first subset of related media content items, wherein each media content item in the first subset is associated with the selected first keyword; removing the selected first keyword from the list of the plurality of keywords and selecting a second keyword from the list of the plurality of keywords based at least in part on the calculated score; determining a second subset of related media content items, wherein each media content item in the second subset is associated with the selected second keyword; and causing the first subset and the second subset of related media content items to be presented along with a relatedness indicator, wherein the relatedness indicator is generated using the first keyword for the first subset and the second keyword for the second subset.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method for providing media guidance, the method comprising:
determining a plurality of media content items that are related to a media content item;
determining a plurality of keywords associated with each of the plurality of related media content items, wherein each of the plurality of keywords is associated with a keyword type;
calculating a score for each of the plurality of keywords based at least in part on a frequency each of the plurality of keywords is associated with media content items in the plurality of related media content items;
selecting a first keyword from the plurality of keywords based at least in part on the score;
determining a first subset of related media content items, wherein each media content item in the first subset is associated with the first keyword;
selecting a second keyword from the plurality of keywords based at least in part on the score;
determining a second subset of related media content items, wherein each media content item in the second subset is associated with the second keyword;
generating, for each of the first subset and the second subset of related media content items, a relatedness indicator as a phrase that describes the media content items in each of the first subset and the second subset of related media content items, wherein the phrase associated with the first subset of related media content items includes the first keyword and associated keyword type, and wherein the phrase associated with the second subset of related media content items includes the second keyword and associated keyword type; and
causing a user interface that presents media content information associated with the media content item, wherein the user interface includes (i) the media content information, (ii) playback information that includes links for accessing the media content item from a plurality of content sources, wherein each link for accessing the media content item is associated with pricing information and wherein selection of a link causes the media content item to be played back from a content source associated with the link, (iii) a first row of content items that includes the first subset of related media content items with the relatedness indicator corresponding to the first subset of related media content items from the plurality of content sources, and (iv) a second row of content items that includes the second subset of related media content items with the relatedness indicator corresponding to the second subset of related media content items from the plurality of content sources, wherein each related media content item in the first subset of related media content items and the second subset of related media content items is presented with a related media content item link that, upon selection, causes the user interface to presented the media content information associated with a related media content item corresponding to the related media content item link.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the plurality of media content items are determined in response to receiving a search query for the media content item.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first subset of related media content items are presented in the first row of the user interface with a label that includes the phrase corresponding to the first subset of related media content items, and wherein the second subset of related media content items are presented in the second row of the user interface with a label that includes the phrase corresponding to the second subset of related media content items.

4. The method of claim 3 , wherein an order of the first row and the second row within the user interface are determined based on the score associated with each of the first keyword and the second keyword.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first keyword relates to a common plot of the first subset of related media content items.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein generating the phrase associated with the first subset of related media content items comprises combining the first keyword with an indication of a type of media content associated with the media content items in the first subset of related media content items.

7. A system for providing media guidance, the system comprising:
a hardware processor that is configured to:
determine a plurality of media content items that are related to a media content item;
determine a plurality of keywords associated with each of the plurality of related media content items, wherein each of the plurality of keywords is associated with a keyword type;
calculate a score for each of the plurality of keywords based at least in part on a frequency each of the plurality of keywords is associated with media content items in the plurality of related media content items;
select a first keyword from the plurality of keywords based at least in part on the score;
determine a first subset of related media content items, wherein each media content item in the first subset is associated with the first keyword;
select a second keyword from the plurality of keywords based at least in part on the score;
determine a second subset of related media content items, wherein each media content item in the second subset is associated with the second keyword;
generate, for each of the first subset and the second subset of related media content items, a relatedness indicator as a phrase that describes the media content items in each of the first subset and the second subset of related media content items, wherein the phrase associated with the first subset of related media content items includes the first keyword and associated keyword type, and wherein the phrase associated with the second subset of related media content items includes the second keyword and associated keyword type; and
cause a user interface that presents media content information associated with the media content item, wherein the user interface includes (i) the media content information, (ii) playback information that includes links for accessing the media content item from a plurality of content sources, wherein each link for accessing the media content item is associated with pricing information and wherein selection of a link causes the media content item to be played back from a content source associated with the link, (iii) a first row of content items that includes the first subset of related media content items with the relatedness indicator corresponding to the first subset of related media content items from the plurality of content sources, and (iv) a second row of content items that includes the second subset of related media content items with the relatedness indicator corresponding to the second subset of related media content items from the plurality of content sources, wherein each related media content item in the first subset of related media content items and the second subset of related media content items is presented with a related media content item link that, upon selection, causes the user interface to presented the media content information associated with a related media content item corresponding to the related media content item link.

8. The system of claim 7 , wherein the plurality of media content items are determined in response to receiving a search query for the media content item.

9. The system of claim 7 , wherein the first subset of related media content items are presented in the first row of the user interface with a label that includes the phrase corresponding to the first subset of related media content items, and wherein the second subset of related media content items are presented in the second row of the user interface with a label that includes the phrase corresponding to the

Assignees

• Google Llc

Inventors

• Drochomirecki Przemek
• Glowaty Grzegorz
• Brumm Christian

Classifications

• G06F16/24578 Primary

  using ranking · CPC title

• G06F16/438

  Presentation of query results · CPC title

• G06F16/48

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

• G06F16/951

  Indexing; Web crawling techniques · CPC title

• G06F16/9535 Primary

  Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation · CPC title