Systems and methods for showing media asset consumption history

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9565480-B2
Application number	US-201514736466-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 11, 2015
Priority date	Jun 11, 2015
Publication date	Feb 7, 2017
Grant date	Feb 7, 2017

Abstract

Systems and methods are described herein for a media guidance application that facilitates showing a user's media asset consumption and interaction history by collecting and storing the user's interactions with media assets for later presentation to the user. Specifically, the media guidance application may monitor content that the user is consuming, purchasing, or otherwise interacting with and may store the monitored information. At a later time, the media guidance application may detect that the user wishes to navigate to a past time interval. As a result, the media guidance application may generate for display media asset identifiers corresponding to media assets transmitted to a plurality of users during that time interval and indicate to the user which media asset identifiers correspond to media assets that the user interacted with and also indicate the different types of previously monitored user interactions corresponding to respective media assets.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method for showing media asset consumption history, the method comprising:
generating for display a first plurality of media asset identifiers corresponding to a first plurality of media assets scheduled for transmission to a plurality of users during present and future time intervals; and
based on receiving a request to navigate to a past time interval:
identifying a second plurality of media assets that were transmitted to the plurality of users during the past time interval;
generating for display a second plurality of media asset identifiers corresponding to the second plurality of media assets;
determining that a first media asset identifier and a second media asset identifier are associated with a first portion of the second plurality of media asset identifiers, wherein the first portion of the second plurality of media asset identifiers corresponds to media assets associated with previously monitored user interactions;
determining that the first media asset identifier is associated with a first type of previously monitored user interaction, and that the second media asset identifier is associated with a second type of previously monitored user interaction, different from the first type of previously monitored user interaction;
retrieving a first indicator corresponding to the first type of previously monitored user interaction and a second indicator corresponding to the second type of previously monitored user interaction; and
visually distinguishing the first portion of the second plurality of media asset identifiers from a second portion of the second plurality of media asset identifiers that corresponds to media assets that are not associated with previously monitored user interactions by generating for display the first media asset identifier with the first indicator and the second media asset identifier with the second indicator.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein types of previously monitored user interactions comprise fully viewing, partially viewing, recording without viewing, recording and partially viewing, recording and fully viewing, and recording and erasing.

3. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
receiving an indication from a user to consume a media asset associated with the first media asset identifier;
determining that a type of previously monitored user interaction associated with the media asset is the user partially consuming the media asset;
determining that the media asset will be available for consumption at a future time;
retrieving a time interval corresponding to a portion of the media asset that the user has not consumed; and
scheduling, for recording, the portion of the media asset that the user has not consumed.

4. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
cross-referencing each media asset of the second plurality of media assets with a database listing media assets and previously monitored user interactions corresponding to those media assets;
determining which media assets of the second plurality of media asset are listed in the database; and
selecting the first portion based on the determining.

5. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
generating for display a plurality of indicators for a plurality of previously monitored user interactions and a plurality of options that enable the user to modify each indicator of the plurality of indicators; and
based on a user selection of an option of the plurality of options, modifying the plurality of indicators based on the selected option.

6. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
based on a user selection of the first media asset identifier, generating for display information associated with the monitored user interaction corresponding to a media asset associated with the first media asset identifier.

7. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
based on a first user input, generating for display media asset identifiers associated with the first type of previously monitored user interactions; and
based on a second user input, generating for display media asset identifiers associated with the second type of previously monitored user interactions.

8. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
generating for display a first plurality of indicators corresponding to a plurality of content sources along a first axis;
generating for display a second plurality of indicators corresponding to a plurality of time periods along a second axis, wherein the plurality of time periods is within the time interval;
generating for display the second plurality of media asset identifiers, wherein each media asset identifier of the second plurality of media asset identifiers is placed on a display according to a respective source and a respective time period; and
generating for display, for each media asset identifier in the first portion of the second plurality of media asset identifiers, an indicator corresponding to a respective type of previously monitored user interaction associated with a respective media asset identifier.

9. A system for showing media asset consumption history, the system comprising:
control circuitry configured to:
generate for display a first plurality of media asset identifiers corresponding to a first plurality of media assets scheduled for transmission to a plurality of users during present and future time intervals; and
based on receiving a request to navigate to a past time interval:
identify a second plurality of media assets that were transmitted to the plurality of users during the past time interval;
generate for display a second plurality of media asset identifiers corresponding to the second plurality of media assets;
determine that a first media asset identifier and a second media asset identifier are associated with a first portion of the second plurality of media asset identifiers, wherein the first portion of the second plurality of media asset identifiers corresponds to media assets associated with previously monitored user interactions;
determine that the first media asset identifier is associated with a first type of previously monitored user interaction, and that the second media asset identifier is associated with a second type of previously monitored user interaction, different from the first type of previously monitored user interaction;
retrieve a first indicator corresponding to the first type of previously monitored user interaction and a second indicator corresponding to the second type of previously monitored user interaction; and
visually distinguish the first portion of the second plurality of media asset identifiers from a second portion of the second plurality of media asset identifiers that corresponds to media assets that are not associated with previously monitored user interactions by generating for display the first media asset identifier with the first indicator and the second media asset identifier with the second indicator.

10. The system of claim 9 , wherein types of previously monitored user interactions comprise fully viewing, partially viewing, recording without viewing, recording and partially viewing, recording and fully viewing, and recording and erasing.

11. The system of claim 9 , wherein the control circuitry is further configured to:
receive an indication from a user to consume a media asset associated with the first media asset identifier;
determine that a type of previously monitored user interaction associated with the media asset is the user partially consuming the media asset;
determine that the media asset will be available for consumption at a future time;
retrieve a time interval corresponding to a portion of the media asset that the user has not consumed; a

Assignees

• Rovi Guides Inc

Inventors

• Nishimura Akitaka

Classifications

• H04N21/4334

  Recording operations (recording of a television signal H04N5/76; arrangements for recording or accumulating broadcast information or broadcast-related information H04H60/27) · CPC title

• H04N21/4858

  for modifying screen layout parameters, e.g. fonts, size of the windows · CPC title

• H04N21/4821 Primary

  using a grid, e.g. sorted out by channel and broadcast time · CPC title

• H04N21/4312

  involving specific graphical features, e.g. screen layout, special fonts or colors, blinking icons, highlights or animations · CPC title

• H04N21/4318

  by altering the content in the rendering process, e.g. blanking, blurring or masking an image region (image enhancement or restoration in general G06T5/00) · CPC title