Multi sender and source recommendation aggregation and prompting system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9703838-B1
Application number	US-201414276558-A
Country	US
Kind code	B1
Filing date	May 13, 2014
Priority date	May 13, 2014
Publication date	Jul 11, 2017
Grant date	Jul 11, 2017

Abstract

This disclosure generally relates to systems and methods that facilitate aggregating received recommendations from a plurality of sources from a plurality of users into a recommendation playlist, and generating additional respective playlists from the recommendation playlist from specific users based upon specified criteria. Additionally, respective feedback is provided to users who provided recommendations on the quality of their recommendations, and based upon specified criteria users are prompted to provide additional recommendations.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method, comprising:
receiving a plurality of recommendations for content items from a plurality of sending users for a recipient user through a plurality of sources;
adding the plurality of recommendations for content items to a received recommendations playlist associated with the recipient user; and
in response to determining that a number of positive interactions by the recipient user with a subset of the plurality of recommendations for content items from a first sending user of the plurality of sending users satisfies one or more interaction criteria, generating, by a processing device, a first sending user playlist including the subset of recommendations for content items from the first sending user but not from other sending users of the plurality of sending users.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the interaction criteria comprise a threshold quantity of interactions.

3. The method of claim 1 , further comprising sending at least one rating to at least one sending user of the plurality of sending users for at least one recommendations for content items from the at least one sending user indicative of quality of the at least one recommendation.

4. The method of claim 3 , further comprising:
ranking the plurality of recommendations for content items in the received recommendations playlist based upon the at least one rating; and
sorting the plurality of recommendations for content items according to their respective rankings.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the plurality of recommendations for content items are received via a plurality of sources associated with the recipient user.

6. The method of claim 5 , wherein the plurality of sources comprise at least two of an email, a text message, an instant message, a chat message, a wall post, a social network post, a social network message, a voicemail, a video message, an audio message, a photo message, a comment on a post, a blog post, a newsletter, a pop-up window, a content site share, a phone call, a conference call, an optical character recognition of a handwritten or printed note, a voice recognition of a live or recorded conversation, a near field communication, a Bluetooth communication, a Bump, a cloud drive share, or a shared playlist.

7. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
in response to viewing a content item by the first sending user and based upon one or more criteria, presenting to the first sending user a notification to send a recommendation for the content item to the recipient user, wherein the criteria comprise feedback.

8. The method of claim 7 , wherein the feedback comprises respective ratings indicative of quality of the plurality of recommendations for content items.

9. The method of claim 8 , wherein the criteria comprise the content item meeting a similarity threshold to one or more content items with associated recommendations from the first sending user having respective ratings meeting a threshold quality.

10. A system, comprising:
a memory; and
at least one processor, coupled to the memory, to:
receive a plurality of recommendations for content items from a plurality of sending users for a recipient user through a plurality of sources; and
aggregate the plurality of recommendations for content items into a recommendation playlist associated with the recipient user; and
in response to determining that a number of positive interactions by the recipient user with a subset of the plurality of recommendations for content items from a first sending user of the plurality of sending users satisfies one or more interaction criteria, generate a first sending user playlist including the subset of recommendations for content items from the first sending user but not from other sending users of the plurality of sending users.

11. The system of claim 10 , wherein the interaction criteria comprise a threshold quantity of interactions.

12. The system of claim 10 , wherein the processor is to send feedback to at least one sending user of the plurality of sending users for at least one recommendations for content items from the at least one sending user indicative of quality of the at least one recommendation.

13. The system of claim 12 , wherein the processor is to:
rank the plurality of recommendations for content items in the received recommendations playlist based upon the feedback;
sort the plurality of recommendations for content items according to their respective rankings; and
present the recommendation for content items to the recipient user.

14. The system of claim 10 , wherein the plurality of recommendations for content items are received via a plurality of sources associated with the recipient user.

15. The system of claim 14 , wherein the plurality of sources comprise at least two of an email, a text message, an instant message, a chat message, a wall post, a social network post, a social network message, a voicemail, a video message, an audio message, a photo message, a comment on a post, a blog post, a newsletter, a pop-up window, a content site share, a phone call, a conference call, an optical character recognition of a handwritten or printed note, a voice recognition of a live or recorded conversation, a near field communication, a Bluetooth communication, a Bump, a cloud drive share, or a shared playlist.

16. A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising instructions that, when executed by a processing device, cause the processing device to perform operations comprising:
receiving a plurality of recommendations for content items from a plurality of sending users for a recipient user through a plurality of sources;
adding the plurality of recommendations for content items to a received recommendations playlist associated with the recipient user; and
in response to determining that a number of positive interactions by the recipient user with a subset of the plurality of recommendations for content items from a first sending user of the plurality of sending users satisfies one or more interaction criteria, generating a first sending user playlist including the subset of recommendations for content items from the first sending user but not from other sending users of the plurality of sending users.

17. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 16 , wherein the operations further comprise sending at least one rating to at least one sending user of the plurality of sending users for at least one recommendations for content items from the at least one sending user indicative of quality of the at least one recommendation.

18. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 16 , wherein the operations further comprise:
ranking the plurality of recommendations for content items in the received recommendations playlist based upon the at least one rating; and
sorting the plurality of recommendations for content items according to their respective rankings.

19. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 16 , wherein the plurality of recommendations for content items are received via a plurality of sources associated with the recipient user.

20. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 19 , wherein the plurality of sources comprise at least two of an email, a text message, an instant message, a chat message, a wall post, a social network post, a social network message, a voicemail, a video message, an audio message, a photo message, a comment on a post, a blog post, a newsletter, a pop-up window, a content site share, a phone call, a conference cal

Assignees

• Google Inc

Inventors

• Hampson Courtney
• Sanio Jason Robert Richard

Classifications

• G06Q10/40

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

• G06Q30/0631 Primary

  Recommending goods or services · CPC title

• H04L67/10

  in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network (software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46) · CPC title

• G06F16/24578 Primary

  using ranking · CPC title

• G06F17/3053 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic