Increased user efficiency and interaction performance through user-targeted electronic program guide content descriptions

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9307290-B1
Application number	US-201414550909-A
Country	US
Kind code	B1
Filing date	Nov 21, 2014
Priority date	Nov 21, 2014
Publication date	Apr 5, 2016
Grant date	Apr 5, 2016

Abstract

Electronic program guide descriptions, of content referenced by the electronic program guide, are user-targeted based on user data. Such user-targeted electronic program guide descriptions aid users in identifying desirable content, thereby increasing user interaction performance with a content presentation device providing such user-targeted electronic program guide descriptions. To generate user-targeted electronic program guide descriptions, received electronic program guide information includes different, alternative or mutually exclusive, content descriptions of a given content item. Such electronic program guide information is compared with the user data and user-targeted content item descriptions is generated from the different content descriptions. A visual electronic program guide, including the user-targeted content item description, is displayed to a user on a physical display device.

First claim

We claim:

1. A content presentation device for increasing user interaction performance, the content presentation device comprising:
one or more processing units that execute computer-executable instructions;
a graphics hardware interface communicationally coupling the content presentation device to a physical display device such that the computer-executable instructions being executed by the one or more processing units cause physical changes to the physical display device, thereby generating display content on the physical display device; and
a content presentation application comprising computer-executable instructions which, when executed by at least some of the one or more processing units, cause the content presentation device to perform steps comprising:
receiving electronic program guide content information, the electronic program guide content information comprising two or more different, alternative content descriptions of a same first content item;
comparing the two or more different, alternative content descriptions with user data;
generating a user-targeted content item description of the first content item from at least a portion of at least one of the different, alternative content descriptions of the first content item based on the comparing of the two or more different, alternative content descriptions with the user data; and
generating, on the physical display device, a display of an electronic program guide, the display comprising the generated user-targeted content item description.

2. The content presentation device of claim 1 , wherein the two or more different, alternative content descriptions of the same first content item are mutually exclusive of each other such that generating the user-targeted content item description from the at least a portion of the at least one of the different, alternative content descriptions necessarily excludes generation of the user-targeted content item description from any other of the different, alternative content descriptions.

3. The content presentation device of claim 1 , wherein a first of the two or more different, alternative content descriptions is directed to a first descriptive aspect of the first content item and a second of the two or more different, alternative content descriptions is directed to a second descriptive aspect of the first content item, the second descriptive aspect differing from the first descriptive aspect.

4. The content presentation device of claim 3 , wherein the first descriptive aspect is a first genre to which the first content item is described as belonging by the first of the two or more different, alternative content descriptions and the second descriptive aspect is a second genre, different than the first genre, to which the first content item is also described as belonging by the second of the two or more different, alternative content descriptions.

5. The content presentation device of claim 1 , wherein the generating the display of the electronic program guide is performed after, and in response to, receiving user input selecting the first content item.

6. The content presentation device of claim 1 , wherein the user data comprises at least one user content preference; and wherein further the comparing the two or more different, alternative content descriptions with user data comprises identifying the at least a portion of the at least one of the different, alternative content descriptions that is associated with the user content preference.

7. The content presentation device of claim 1 , wherein the generating the user-targeted content item description comprises selecting all of a single content description, from among the different, alternative content descriptions, as the user-targeted content item description.

8. The content presentation device of claim 1 , wherein the generating the user-targeted content item description comprises generating the user-targeted content item description from only a first portion of a first content description from among the different, alternative content descriptions and from only a first portion of a second, different content description from among the different, alternative content descriptions.

9. The content presentation device of claim 8 , wherein the first portion of the first content description was identified as being separable from remaining portions of the first content description; and wherein further the first portion of the second content description was identified as being separable from remaining portions of the second content description.

10. The content presentation device of claim 1 , wherein the content presentation application comprises further computer-executable instructions which, when executed by the one or more processing units, cause the content presentation device to perform steps comprising:
determining that a second user, different from a user for whom the user-targeted content was generated, is utilizing the electronic program guide;
comparing the two or more different, alternative content descriptions with a second user data, different from the user data;
generating a second user-targeted content item description of the first content item from at least a portion of at least one of the different, alternative content descriptions of the first content item based on the comparing of the two or more different, alternative content descriptions with the second user data; and
generating, on the physical display device, a subsequent display of the electronic program guide, the subsequent display comprising the generated user-targeted content item description.

11. The content presentation device of claim 1 , wherein the generating the user-targeted content item description of the first content item comprises utilizing a default content item description, received with the electronic program guide content information, for the first content item, if none of the two or more different, alternative content descriptions match the user data.

12. A method of increasing user interaction performance with a content presentation device comprising one or more processing units performing the steps of the method, the method comprising:
receiving, by the content presentation device, electronic program guide content information, the electronic program guide content information comprising two or more different, alternative content descriptions of a same first content item;
comparing, on the content presentation device, the two or more different, alternative content descriptions with user data;
generating, by the content presentation device, a user-targeted content item description of the first content item from at least a portion of at least one of the different, alternative content descriptions of the first content item based on the comparing of the two or more different, alternative content descriptions with the user data; and
generating, on a physical display device communicationally coupled to the content presentation device, a display of an electronic program guide, the display comprising the generated user-targeted content item description.

13. The method of claim 12 , wherein a first of the two or more different, alternative content descriptions is directed to a first descriptive aspect of the first content item and a second of the two or more different, alternative content descriptions is directed to a second descriptive aspect of the first content item, the second descriptive aspect differing from the first descriptive aspect.

14. The method of claim 12 , wherein the user data comprises at least one user content preference; and wherein further the comparing the two or more different, alterna

Assignees

• Microsoft Technology Licensing Llc

Inventors

• Finster Diana
• Chiu Adrian
• De La Garza Enrique
• Pineda Alexei
• Keller Donald

Classifications

• H04N21/8405

  represented by keywords · CPC title

• H04N21/462

  Content or additional data management e.g. creating a master electronic programme guide from data received from the Internet and a Head-end or controlling the complexity of a video stream by scaling the resolution or bit-rate based on the client capabilities · CPC title

• H04N21/26283

  for associating distribution time parameters to content, e.g. to generate electronic programme guide data · CPC title

• H04N21/8133

  specifically related to the content, e.g. biography of the actors in a movie, detailed information about an article seen in a video programme · CPC title

• H04N21/4828

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