Adaptive music and video recommendations

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9619470-B2
Application number	US-201414172770-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 4, 2014
Priority date	Feb 4, 2014
Publication date	Apr 11, 2017
Grant date	Apr 11, 2017

Abstract

A user feedback module, executable by a processing device from memory is disclosed. The user feedback module receives from a user device a selection of a seed media item. The seed media item includes a seed label. The user feedback module further generates a list, the list includes the seed label and a set of related labels based on the seed label. The seed label and each related label include a separate label weight. The user feedback module also identifies multiple media items associated with an associate label. The associate label includes at least one of the seed label or a related label of the first set of related labels. The user feedback module also transmits to the user device a first media item from the multiple media items. The user feedback module adjusts the label weight of the associate label based on a user feedback on the first media item.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method comprising:
receiving, from a user device, a selection of a seed media item that is associated with a seed label;
generating a list comprising the seed label and a first set of related labels based on the seed label, the seed label and the first set of related labels comprising a separate label weight, wherein the first set of related labels are categories related to the seed label;
identifying a first plurality of media items associated with a related label of the first set of related labels;
transmitting to the user device a first media item of the first plurality of media items associated with the related label;
adjusting the label weight of the related label associated with the first media item based on a user feedback on the first media item;
identifying an additional label based on the adjusted label weight of the related label, wherein the additional label is a category related to the related label; and
updating the list to contain the additional label, wherein a second media item of a second plurality of media items associated with the additional label is selected for transmission to the user device based on the updated list.

2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
identifying the additional label in response to the adjusted label weight of the related label exceeding a first threshold value.

3. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
calculating a cumulative weight of the separate label weights of the list;
comparing the cumulative weight of the separate label weights of the list to a second threshold value; and
replacing one or more related labels of the first set of related labels of the list with a second set of related labels when the cumulative weight is under the second threshold value, the second set of related labels based on the seed label.

4. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
assigning a media weight to each of the first plurality of media items associated with the related label.

5. The method of claim 4 , wherein transmitting the first media item to the user device is based on the media weight of each of the first plurality of media items.

6. The method of claim 4 , further comprising:
calculating a full-rank weight for each of the first plurality of media items associated with the related label, the full-rank weight comprising a combination of the label weight of the related label and the media weight of a media item of the first plurality of media items.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the user feedback comprises an explicit user feedback, the explicit user feedback comprising at least one of a like action, a dislike action, a comment, removal action, or a sharing action.

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein the user feedback comprises an implicit user feedback, the implicit user feedback comprising at least one of a long watch action or a skip action.

9. The method of claim 1 , wherein the label weight of the related label is adjusted based on a temporal relation to the user feedback.

10. The method of claim 1 , wherein the seed label and each related label of the first set of related labels comprise an artist identifier and each of the first plurality of media items associated with the related label comprise a video identifier.

11. A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium storing instructions that, when executed by a processing device, cause the processing device to perform operations comprising:
receiving, from a user device, a selection of a seed media item that is associated with a seed label;
generating, by the processing device, a list comprising the seed label and a first set of related labels based on the seed label, the seed label and the first set of related labels comprising a separate label weight, wherein the first set of related labels are categories related to the seed label;
identifying a first plurality of media items associated with a related label of the first set of related labels;
transmitting to the user device a first media item of the first plurality of media items associated with the related label;
adjusting the label weight of the related label associated with the first media item based on a user feedback on the first media item;
identifying an additional label based on the adjusted label weight of the related label, wherein the additional label is a category related to the related label; and
updating the list to contain the additional label, wherein a second media item of a second plurality of media items associated with the additional label is selected for transmission to the user device based on the updated list.

12. A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 11 , the operations further comprising:
identifying the additional label in response to the adjusted label weight of the related label exceeding a first threshold value.

13. A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 11 , the operations further comprising:
calculating a cumulative weight of the separate label weights of the list;
comparing the cumulative weight of the separate label weights of the list to a second threshold value; and
replacing one or more related labels of the first set of related labels of the list with a second set of related labels when the cumulative weight is under the second threshold value, the second set of related labels based on the seed label.

14. A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 11 , the operations further comprising:
assigning a media weight to each of the first plurality of media items associated with the related label.

15. A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 14 , wherein transmitting the first media item to the user device is based on the media weight of each of the first plurality of media items.

16. A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 14 , the operations further comprising:
calculating a full-rank weight for each of the first plurality of media items associated with the related label, the full-rank weight comprising a combination of the label weight of the related label and the media weight of a media item of the first plurality of media items.

17. A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 11 , wherein the user feedback comprises an explicit user feedback, the explicit user feedback comprising at least one of a like action, a dislike action, a comment, removal action, or a sharing action.

18. A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 11 , wherein the user feedback comprises an implicit user feedback, the implicit user feedback comprising at least one of a long watch action or a skip action.

19. A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 11 , wherein the label weight of the related label is adjusted based on a temporal relation to the user feedback.

20. A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 11 , wherein the seed label and each related label of the first set of related labels comprise an artist identifier and each of the first plurality of media items associated with the related label comprise a video identifier.

21. A server computer system comprising:
a memory; and
a processing device, operatively coupled to the memory, to:
receive, from a user device, a selection of a seed media item that is associated with a seed label;
generate a list comprising the seed label and a first set of related labels based on the seed label, the seed label and the first set of related labels comprising a separate l

Assignees

• Google Inc

Inventors

• Ross David Alexander
• Althoff Christopher Tim
• Ning Huazhong
• Tarifi Mohamad
• Eck Douglas

Classifications

• G06F16/48

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

• G06F16/4387

  by the use of playlists · CPC title

• G06F16/00

  Information retrieval; Database structures therefor; File system structures therefor · CPC title

• G06F16/435 Primary

  Filtering based on additional data, e.g. user or group profiles · CPC title

• G06F16/24578

  using ranking · CPC title