Media queuing

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2016173633-A1
Application number	US-201414569848-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Dec 15, 2014
Priority date	Dec 15, 2014
Publication date	Jun 16, 2016
Grant date	—

Abstract

One or more methods and/or techniques for media queuing are provided herein. A user, of a client device, may search for a media item (e.g., a movie, video, and/or TV show). The media item may be provided by one or more content providers (e.g., businesses that provide media items in one or more formats, such as for rental, purchase, download, pickup, etc.). Responsive to the media item being of interest to the user, one or more media queuing options may be presented to the user. The media queuing options may correspond to one or more formats and/or one or more content providers (e.g., rental from a first content provider; purchase from a second content provider; etc). Responsive to the user invoking a media queuing option, the media item may be queued for consumption by the user.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A method of media queuing, comprising:
identifying a media item reference within content provided to a user by a first content provider; identifying a second content provider that provides a media item referenced by the media item reference; providing a media queuing option for the media item; and responsive to receiving an invocation of the media queuing option, queuing the media item for consumption through the second content provider.

2 . The method of claim 1 , the media queuing option comprising at least one of a media item purchase option, a media item viewing option, a media item reservation option, a media item pickup option, a media item bookmark option, or a media item record option.

3 . The method of claim 1 , the identifying a second content provider comprising:
determining that the user has an account with the second content provider.

4 . The method of claim 1 , the content comprising at least one of a website, a search engine search page, a social network post, a message, or an application.

5 . The method of claim 1 , the invocation corresponding to a single user interaction with the media queuing option.

6 . The method of claim 1 , the queuing the media item comprising:
submitting user account credentials, of the user, to the second content provider; and instructing the second content provider to queue the media item for consumption by the user.

7 . The method of claim 1 , the queuing the media item comprising:
redirecting the user to a user interface, populated with contextually relevant information associated with the media item, provided by the second content provider.

8 . The method of claim 1 , the identifying a media item reference comprising:
evaluating at least one of a user profile or a user history to determine that the user has an interest in the media item greater than an interest threshold.

9 . The method of claim 1 , the queuing the media item comprising:
providing the user with a notification that the media item was successfully queued with the second content provider.

10 . The method of claim 1 , comprising:
receiving an account link request requesting to link an account, of the user with the second content provider, with a user device of the user; and linking a device identifier of the user device with the second content provider to create a link.

11 . The method of claim 10 , identifying a second content provider comprising:
responsive to determining that the content is provided to the user device of the user, utilizing the link to identify the second content provider as providing one or more media items for consumption by the user.

12 . The method of claim 1 , comprising:
identifying a third content provider that provides the media item; providing a second media queuing option for the media item; and responsive to receiving a second invocation of the second media queuing option, queuing the media item for consumption through the third content provider.

13 . The method of claim 1 , the first content provider comprising a search engine search page, and the providing a media queuing option comprising:
displaying the media queuing option in a first location of a search engine results page, generated from the search engine search paged, based upon a first media queue bid submitted by the second content provider; and displaying the second media queuing option in a second location of the search engine results page based upon a second media queue bid submitted by a third content provider, the first location having a higher visibility prominence metric than the second location.

14 . The method of claim 1 , comprising:
generating a set of media queuing options associated with a plurality of content providers that provide the media item; and ranking the set of media queuing options to create a ranked set of media queuing options based upon at least one of a user query used to generate the content, a user access history with a content provider, or a content provider sponsorship of the media item.

15 . A system for media presentation, comprising:
a media queuing component configured to:
identify a media item reference within content provided to a user by a first content provider;
identify a second content provider that provides a media item referenced by the media item reference;
identify a third content provider that provides the media item referenced by the media item reference;
provide a media queuing option for the media item provided by the second content provider;
provide a second media queuing option for the media item provided by the third content provider;
responsive to receiving an invocation of the media queuing option, queue the media item for consumption through the second content provider; and
responsive to receiving an invocation of the second media queuing option, queue the media item for consumption through the third content provider.

16 . The system of claim 15 , the media queuing component configured to:
provide the media queuing option by providing at least one of a media item purchase option, a media item viewing option, a media item reservation option, a media item pickup option, a media item bookmark option, or a media item record option; and provide the second media queuing option by providing at least one of the media item purchase option, the media item viewing option, the media item reservation option, the media item pickup option, the media item bookmark option, or the media item record option.

17 . The system of claim 15 , the invocation corresponding to a single user interaction with the media queuing option or the second media queuing option.

18 . The system of claim 15 , the media queuing component configured to:
identify the second content provider by determining that the user has an account with the second content provider; and identify the third content provider by determining that the user has an account with the third content provider.

19 . A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising computer executable instructions that when executed by a processor perform a method for media queuing, comprising:
identifying a media item reference within content provided to a user on a first content provider; identifying a second content provider that provides a media item referenced by the media item reference; identifying a third content provider that provides the media item referenced by the media item reference; providing a first media queuing option for the media item; providing a second media queuing option for the media item; responsive to receiving an invocation of the first media queuing option, queuing the media item for consumption through the second content provider; and responsive to receiving an invocation of the second media queuing option, queuing the media item for consumption through the second content provider.

20 . The method of claim 19 , the identifying a media item reference comprising:
evaluating at least one of a user profile or a user history to determine that the user has an interest in the media item greater than an interest threshold.

Assignees

• Yahoo Inc

Inventors

• Bax Eric
• Peng John
• Greenwood Wayne
• Hiers Lane
• Filippini Frank
• Giaffo Lisa
• Ard Scott

Classifications

• H04L67/02

  based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP] · CPC title

• H04N21/472

  End-user interface for requesting content, additional data or services; End-user interface for interacting with content, e.g. for content reservation or setting reminders, for requesting event notification, for manipulating displayed content {(end-user interfaces for retrieving video data from a database G06F16/739; network services for supporting unicast streaming H04L65/612)} · CPC title

• H04N21/4828

  for searching programme descriptors (retrieval of video data G06F16/739) · CPC title

• H04L67/1097

  for distributed storage of data in networks, e.g. transport arrangements for network file system [NFS], storage area networks [SAN] or network attached storage [NAS] · CPC title

• H04N21/42684

  Client identification by a unique number or address, e.g. serial number, MAC address, socket ID (network arrangements, protocols or services for addressing or naming H04L61/00) · CPC title