Methods and systems for recommending media content
AssigneeRovi Guides, Inc.
InventorsPaul Stathacopoulos, Benjamin Maughan
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Abstract
Methods and systems are disclosed herein for a media guidance application that provides diverse and reliable media content suggestions. Specifically, the media guidance application may monitor user preferences of a select group of friends of the user and base media recommendations on those user preferences. The media guidance application may determine close friends of the user, such as friends that a user regularly communicates with, and include recommendations on the media preferences of only those close friends.
Claims20
A method of recommending media content, the method comprising:
- storing, in a database, a record of a social media network contact;
- monitoring electronic communications exchanged between a user and a social media network contact, wherein the electronic communications are sent by the user to the social media network contact and received by the user from the social media network contact;
- storing, in the database, a closeness metric corresponding to the social media network contact, wherein the closeness metric quantifies an amount of electronic communications exchanged between the user and the social media network contact, and wherein the electronic communications comprise e-mail messages, text messages, multimedia messages, and social media messages;
- retrieving a recommendation threshold from the database;
- comparing the closeness metric to the recommendation threshold;
- and
- in response to determining that the closeness metric exceeds the recommendation threshold:
- identifying content accessed by the social media network contact to determine a preference of the social media network contact;
- automatically updating, in-real time, a media content recommendation based on the preference of the social media network contact determined based on the content accessed by the social media network contact;
- and
- generating for display to the user who exchanged communications with the social media network contact, on a display device, the media content recommendation.
A system of recommending media content, the system comprising:
- storage circuitry configured to store a record of a social media network contact;
- and
- control circuitry configured to:
- monitor electronic communications exchanged between a user and the social media network contact, wherein the electronic communications are sent by the user to the social media network contact and received by the user from the social media network contact;
- determine a closeness metric corresponding to the social media network contact, wherein the closeness metric quantifies an amount of electronic communications exchanged between the user and the social media network contact, and wherein the electronic communications comprise e-mail messages, text messages, multimedia messages, and social media messages;
- retrieve a recommendation threshold from a database;
- compare the closeness metric to the recommendation threshold;
- and
- if the closeness metric exceeds the recommendation threshold:
- identify content accessed by the social media network contact to determine a preference of the social media network contact;
- automatically update, in-real time, a media content recommendation based on the preference of the social media network contact determined based on the content accessed by the social media network contact;
- and
- generate for display to the user who exchanged communications with the social media network contact, on a display device, the media content recommendation.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.