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Systems and methods for generating for display recommendations that are temporally relevant to activities of a user and are contextually relevant to a portion of a media asset that the user is consuming

AssigneeRovi Guides, Inc.

InventorBryan Keith James

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Abstract

Systems and methods are provided herein for displaying recommendations that are temporally relevant to activities of a user and are contextually relevant to a portion of viewed media. This may be accomplished by a media guidance application identifying activities a user has planned, as well as respective times for which each of the plurality of activities was planned to be performed by the user. The media guidance application may filter the activities by determining which of the first plurality of activities has a corresponding respective time that is within a threshold period of time. The media guidance application may then identify characteristics of each filtered activity and of a media asset that the user is consuming at the present moment, and may compute whether the characteristics match. If the characteristics match, the media guidance application may generate for display a recommendation relating to the respective activity.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A method for generating for display recommendations that are temporally relevant to activities of a user and are contextually relevant to a portion of a media asset that the user is consuming, the method comprising:

identifying, using a media guidance application, a first plurality of activities a user has planned to participate in, each activity of the first plurality of activities occurring at a different geographic location to which the user has planned to travel, as well as a plurality of respective times for which each of the first plurality of activities was planned to be performed by the user, by querying a non-media guidance application;
filtering, using the media guidance application, from the first plurality of activities, a second plurality of activities, by determining which of the first plurality of activities has a corresponding respective time of the plurality of respective times that is within a threshold period of time of a present moment, and by adding each such activity to the second plurality of activities;
identifying characteristics of each activity of the second plurality of activities;
identifying characteristics of a portion of a media asset that the user is consuming at the present moment;
computing, for each respective activity of the second plurality of activities, whether the respective characteristics of each respective activity of the second plurality of activities are relevant to the portion of the media asset based on a comparison between the respective characteristics and the characteristics of the portion of the media asset;
and
in response to determining that the respective characteristics for a respective activity of the second plurality of activities are relevant to the portion of the media asset, generating for display a recommendation relating to the respective activity of the second plurality of activities.

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A system for generating for display recommendations that are temporally relevant to activities of a user and are contextually relevant to a portion of a media asset that the user is consuming, the system comprising:

display circuitry;
and
control circuitry configured to:
identify, using a media guidance application, a first plurality of activities a user has planned to participate in, each activity of the first plurality of activities occurring at a different geographic location to which the user has planned to travel, as well as a plurality of respective times for which each of the first plurality of activities was planned to be performed by the user, by querying a non-media guidance application;
filter, using the media guidance application, from the first plurality of activities, a second plurality of activities, by determining which of the first plurality of activities has a corresponding respective time of the plurality of respective times that is within a threshold period of time of a present moment, and by adding each such activity to the second plurality of activities;
identify characteristics of each activity of the second plurality of activities;
identify characteristics of a portion of a media asset that the user is consuming at the present moment;
compute, for each activity of the second plurality of activities, whether the respective characteristics of each respective activity are relevant to the portion of the media asset based on a comparison between the respective characteristics and the characteristics of the portion of the media asset;
and
in response to determining that the respective characteristics for a respective activity are relevant to the portion of the media asset, generate for display, using the display circuitry, a recommendation relating to the respective activity.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 15/356,840Filed 21 Nov 2016
Published: US 2018/0146258 A124 May 2018
Granted: 9 Oct 2018
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Classification19 codes

H04N 21/4826
End-user interface for programme selection: using recommendation lists, e.g. of programmes or channels sorted out according to their score
G06F 3/14
Input arrangements for transferring data to be processed into a form capable of being handled by the computer; Output arrangements for…: digital…
G06F 16/437
Filtering based on additional data, e.g. user or group profiles: administration of user profiles, e.g. generation, initialisation, adaptation,…
G06F 16/438
Querying: presentation of query results