Recommender engine and user model for transmedia content data
AssigneesDisney Enterprises, Inc., ETH Zürich (Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich)
InventorsBarbara Solenthaler, Tanja Kaeser, Severin Klingler, Adriano Galati, Markus Gross
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Abstract
A recommender engine is configured to access memory and surface transmedia content items; and/or linked transmedia content subsets; and/or one or more identifications of identified users; and/or content items of the plurality of transmedia content items associated with at least one identified user. The surfaced items are presented for selection by the given user via the transmedia content linking engine as one or more user-selected transmedia content items.
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An apparatus for surfacing transmedia content to a given user of a plurality of users comprising:
- a memory configured to store:
- a plurality of transmedia content data items, each content data item being associated with at least one of the plurality of users;
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- linking data which define time-ordered content links between the plurality of transmedia content data items, the plurality of transmedia content data items being arranged into linked transmedia content subsets comprising different groups of the transmedia content data items and different content links therebetween, wherein each time-ordered content link defines a directional link from a first transmedia content data item to a second transmedia content data item of the plurality of transmedia content items;
- a transmedia content linking engine performed by a processor configured to receive user input indicative of a time-ordering between at least two user-selected transmedia content data items and generate the linking data for storage in the memory, thereby defining a linked transmedia content subset including the at least two user-selected transmedia content data items, wherein the transmedia content linking engine is configured to identify a current user-selected time-ordered location of the given user within a given linked transmedia content subset for insertion of one of the transmedia content data items, and to generate corresponding content linking data therefor upon insertion by the given user of the one or more content data items into the given linked transmedia content subset;
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- a recommender engine component, performed by the processor, configured to access the memory and surface to the given user at least one of the following based on the current user-selected time-ordered location:
- one or more content items of the plurality of transmedia content data items, one or more of the linked transmedia content subsets of the linked transmedia content subsets, one or more identifications of identified users other than the given user, and the content items of the plurality of transmedia content data items associated with at least one identified user other than the given user, wherein the one or more surfaced content data items and/or the one or more surfaced linked transmedia content subsets are surfaced for selection by the given user via the transmedia content linking engine as one or more user-selectable transmedia content data items.
A method for surfacing transmedia content to a given user of a plurality of users from a memory configured to store a plurality of transmedia content data items, each content item being associated with at least one of the plurality of users, and linking data which define time-ordered content links between the plurality of transmedia content items, the plurality of transmedia content items being arranged into linked transmedia content subsets comprising different groups of the transmedia content items and different content links therebetween, wherein each time-ordered content link defines a directional link from a first transmedia content data item to a second transmedia content data item of the plurality of transmedia content items, the method comprising:
- receiving, at a processor, user input indicative of a time-ordering between at least two user-selected transmedia content items, wherein the processor is configured to identify a current user-selected time-ordered location of the given user within a given linked transmedia content subset for insertion of one of the transmedia content data items, and to generate corresponding content linking data therefor upon insertion by the given user of the one or more content data items into the given linked transmedia content subset;
- generating with the processor the content linking data for storage in the memory, thereby defining a linked transmedia content subset including the at least two user-selected transmedia content items;
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- accessing the memory and surfacing to the given user with a recommender engine component, performed by the processor at least one of the following based on the current user-selected time-ordered location:
- one or more transmedia content items of the plurality of transmedia content data items, one or more of the linked transmedia content subsets of the linked transmedia content subsets, one or more identifications of identified users other than the given user, and the transmedia content items of the plurality of transmedia content data items associated with at least one identified user other than the given user, wherein the one or more surfaced content data items and/or the one or more surfaced linked transmedia content subsets are surfaced for selection by the given user via the transmedia content linking engine as one or more user-selectable transmedia content data items.
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