Correlating media consumption data with user profiles

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2017195435-A1
Application number	US-201514985089-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Dec 30, 2015
Priority date	Dec 30, 2015
Publication date	Jul 6, 2017
Grant date	—

Abstract

In one embodiment, one or more computer systems of a social-networking system retrieve a user profile for a user associated with a media device. The one or more computer systems of a social-networking system receive media consumption. The one or more computer systems of a social-networking system correlates the user profile and the media consumption data to determine device-based media consumption data associated with content being consumed on the media device. The one or more computer systems of a social-networking system store data that associates the user profile with the device-based media consumption data.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A method comprising:
by the one or more computer systems of the social-networking system, retrieving a user profile for a user of the social-networking system, wherein the user is associated with a media device; by the one or more computer systems of the social-networking system, receiving media consumption data; by the one or more computer systems of the social-networking system, correlating the media consumption data with the user profile to determine device-based media consumption data associated with media content being consumed on the media device; and by the one or more computer systems of the social-networking system, storing data associating the user profile with the device-based media consumption data.

2 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the user profile is retrieved based on a unique device identifier for a user device associated with the user.

3 . The method of claim 2 , wherein the user device is the media device.

4 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the user profile is retrieved based on authentication information for the user.

5 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the media consumption data comprises information uniquely identifying the media content being consumed on the media device.

6 . The method of claim 5 , wherein the information uniquely identifying the content comprises one or more of:
an acoustic fingerprint; a video fingerprint; information about a phase delay; information about electrical interferences associated with the media device; information about closed-captioning associated with the content; or a digital watermark.

7 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the media consumption data comprises set-top box data.

8 . The method of claim 7 , wherein the set-top box data comprises one or more of:
information indicating a television channel the media device is tuned to; information indicating the identity of the media content; information indicating a time or date associated with the media content; information indicating a viewing duration of the media content; information indicating use of a remote control; or information indicating channel changing behavior.

9 . One or more computer-readable non-transitory storage media embodying software that is operable when executed to:
retrieve a user profile for a user of the social-networking system, wherein the user is associated with a media device; receive media consumption data; correlate the media consumption data with the user profile to determine device-based media consumption data associated with media content being consumed on the media device; and store data associating the user profile with the device-based media consumption data.

10 . The media of claim 9 , wherein the user profile is retrieved based on a unique device identifier for a user device associated with the user.

11 . The media of claim 10 , wherein the user device is the media device.

12 . The media of claim 9 , wherein the user profile is retrieved based on authentication information for the user.

13 . The media of claim 9 , wherein the media consumption data comprises information uniquely identifying the media content being consumed on the media device.

14 . The media of claim 13 , wherein the information uniquely identifying the content comprises one or more of:
an acoustic fingerprint; a video fingerprint; information about a phase delay; information about electrical interferences associated with the media device; information about closed-captioning associated with the content; or a digital watermark.

15 . The media of claim 9 , wherein the media consumption data comprises set-top box data.

16 . The media of claim 15 , wherein the set-top box data comprises one or more of:
information indicating a television channel the media device is tuned to; information indicating the identity of the media content; information indicating a time or date associated with the media content; information indicating a viewing duration of the media content; information indicating use of a remote control; or information indicating channel changing behavior.

17 . A system comprising: one or more processors; and a memory coupled to the processors comprising instructions executable by the processors, the processors being operable when executing the instructions to:
retrieve a user profile for a user of the social-networking system, wherein the user is associated with a media device; receive media consumption data; correlate the media consumption data with the user profile to determine device-based media consumption data associated with media content being consumed on the media device; and store data associating the user profile with the device-based media consumption data.

18 . The system of claim 17 , wherein the user profile is retrieved based on a unique device identifier for a user device associated with the user.

19 . The system of claim 18 , wherein the user device is the media device.

20 . The system of claim 17 , wherein the user profile is retrieved based on authentication information for the user.

Assignees

• Facebook Inc

Inventors

• Sarukkai Ramesh Rangarajan

Classifications

• G06Q10/40

  Business processes related to social networking or social networking services · CPC title

• H04N21/8358

  involving watermark {(protecting executable software by watermarking G06F21/16; image watermarking in general G06T1/0021; watermarks inserted in still images for transmission purposes H04N1/32144; inserting watermarks during video coding H04N19/467)} · CPC title

• H04N21/4788

  communicating with other users, e.g. chatting {(arrangements for providing for computer conferences, e.g. chat rooms, to substation in data switching networks H04L12/1813; distributed application using peer-to-peer [P2P] networks H04L67/104)} · CPC title

• H04N21/25883

  being end-user demographical data, e.g. age, family status or address (arrangements for identifying locations of users in broadcast systems H04H60/52) · CPC title

• H04N21/25875

  involving end-user authentication (restricting access to computer systems by authenticating users using a predetermined code G06F21/33; arrangements for secret or secure communication including means for verifying the identity or authority of a user of the system H04L9/32; networks authentication protocols H04L63/08; authentication in wireless network security H04W12/06) · CPC title