US 11,109,097 B2Granted

Watch-time accumulation for video searches

AssigneeGoogle Inc.

InventorsJustin Lewis, Robert Alexander Durbin

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Abstract

This document describes, among other things, systems, methods, devices, and other techniques for using information about how long various videos were presented at client devices to determine subsequent video recommendations and search results. In some implementations, a computing can include a modeling apparatus, a front-end server, a request manager, one or more video file storage devices, a video selector, or a combination of some or all of these. The video selector can select video content for a particular digitized video among a plurality of digitized videos to serve to a computing device responsive to a request. The selection can be based at least in part on how long the particular digitized video has been presented at client devices associated with users having characteristics that match one or more characteristics of the user that submitted the request for video content, as indicated by the modeling apparatus.

Claims21

Dependent claims

A computer-implemented method, comprising:

identifying, by a computing system, a plurality of viewer categories, each viewer category corresponding to a different set of viewer characteristics for viewers of video content;
for each viewer category of the plurality of viewer categories, obtaining a quality score for the viewer category;
determining, by the computing system, an accumulated watch time of a particular video by one or more viewers within a first viewer category of the plurality of viewer categories;
determining, by the computing system, a creator score for a creator of the particular video based at least on (i) the accumulated watch time of the particular video by the one or more viewers within the first viewer category and (ii) the quality score for the first viewer category;
receiving, by the computing system, a request for video content to provide to a first user;
selecting, by the computing system, one or more videos that are responsive to the request, including determining whether to return an indication of the particular video in response to the request based at least on the creator score for the creator of the particular video;
and
returning, by the computing system, indications of the one or more videos to the first user in response to the request.

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A system, comprising:

one or more processors;
and
one or more computer-readable media having instructions stored thereon that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause performance of operations comprising:
identifying, by a computing system, a plurality of viewer categories, each viewer category corresponding to a different set of viewer characteristics for viewers of video content;
for each viewer category of the plurality of viewer categories, obtaining a quality score for the viewer category;
determining, by the computing system, an accumulated watch time of a particular video by one or more viewers within a first viewer category of the plurality of viewer categories;
determining, by the computing system, a creator score for a creator of the particular video based at least on (i) the accumulated watch time of the particular video by the one or more viewers within the first viewer category and (ii) the quality score for the first viewer category;
receiving, by the computing system, a request for video content to provide to a first user;
selecting, by the computing system, one or more videos that are responsive to the request, including determining whether to return an indication of the particular video in response to the request based at least on the creator score for the creator of the particular video;
and
returning, by the computing system, indications of the one or more videos to the first user in response to the request.

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One or more non-transitory computer-readable media having instructions stored thereon that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause performance of operations comprising:

identifying, by a computing system, a plurality of viewer categories, each viewer category corresponding to a different set of viewer characteristics for viewers of video content;
for each viewer category of the plurality of viewer categories, obtaining a quality score for the viewer category;
determining, by the computing system, an accumulated watch time of a particular video by one or more viewers within a first viewer category of the plurality of viewer categories;
determining, by the computing system, a creator score for a creator of the particular video based at least on (i) the accumulated watch time of the particular video by the one or more viewers within the first viewer category and (ii) the quality score for the first viewer category;
receiving, by the computing system, a request for video content to provide to a first user;
selecting, by the computing system, one or more videos that are responsive to the request, including determining whether to return an indication of the particular video in response to the request based at least on the creator score for the creator of the particular video;
and
returning, by the computing system, indications of the one or more videos to the first user in response to the request.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 16/009,697Filed 15 Jun 2018 · continuation
Priority: 22 Apr 2016
Published: US 2019/0020920 A117 Jan 2019
Granted: 31 Aug 2021
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification15 codes

H04N 21/44204
Monitoring of processes or resources, e.g. detecting the failure of a recording device, monitoring the downstream bandwidth, the number of times…
G06F 16/24578
With adaptation to user needs: using ranking
G06F 16/71
Of video data: indexing; Data structures therefor; Storage structures
G06F 16/73
Of video data: querying

Family

Application15/136,558Parent of this continuation · filed 22 Apr 2016
US 2019/0020920 A1Pre-grant publication · published 17 Jan 2019
US 10,003,847 B2Parent of this continuation
US 2017/0311035 A1Published application
US 11,109,097 B2This patent

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