US 11,379,528 B2Granted

Tag-based, user-directed media recommendations

AssigneeTelefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)

InventorsVladimir Katardjiev, Alvin Jude Hari Haran

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Abstract

A tag-based, user-directed media recommendation scheme is described herein. For example described herein is a recommender system (and method implemented by the recommender system) comprising: a recommendation engine configured to generate a recommendations list which includes a current set of recommendations for a user of a client device; and, a tag engine configured to: (1) receive the recommendations list; (2) obtain information about representative items associated with the user of the client device; (3) correlate the recommendations with tags; (4) correlate the representative items with the tags, (5) sort the tags into a tag list; and (6) provide the recommendations list and the tag list to the client device. The representative items include at least one of following: (1) an item previously purchased by the user; (2) an item previously watched by the user; (3) an item previously placed on a wish-list by the user; and (4) an item recommended by the recommendation engine for the user. Further described herein, are the client device and method implemented by the client device.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A client device comprising:

at least one microprocessor;
a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, coupled to the at least one microprocessor, further including computer-readable instructions that, when executed by the at least one microprocessor, are configured for:
displaying a recommendations list, in a user visible interface, which includes a current set of recommendations;
and
displaying a tag list, in the user visible interface, which includes a current set of tags that are associated with the current set of recommendations, wherein each tag of the current set has one or more representative items that are associated with a user of the client device;
displaying an inclusion list, in the user visible interface, which enables addition of one or more tags from the current set of tags to narrow down a next set of recommendations;
receiving a selection input adding the one or more tags to the inclusion list;
in response to receiving the selection input:
updating the recommendations list to display the next set of recommendations which includes one or more recommendations that are similar to the one or more representative items associated with the one or more tags added to the inclusion list,
wherein the next set of recommendations are determined by processing the one or more representative items assigned to the one or more tags which were added to the inclusion list in order to determine representative items that are similar to each other;
and
updating the tag list to include a next set of tags that are associated with the next set of recommendations, wherein each tag of the next set has one or more representative items associated therewith that are associated with the user of the client device.

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A method implemented in a client device, the method comprising:

displaying a recommendations list, in a user visible interface, which includes a current set of recommendations;
displaying a tag list, in the user visible interface, which includes a current set of tags that are associated with the current set of recommendations, wherein each tag of the current set has one or more representative items that are associated with a user of the client device;
displaying an inclusion list, in the user visible interface, which enables addition of one or more tags from the current set of tags to narrow down a next set of recommendations;
receiving a selection input adding the one or more tags to the inclusion list;
in response to receiving the selection input:
updating the recommendations list to display the next set of recommendations which includes one or more recommendations that are similar to the one or more representative items associated with the one or more tags added to the inclusion list,
wherein the next set of recommendations are determined by processing the one or more representative items assigned to the one or more tags which were added to the inclusion list in order to determine representative items that are similar to each other;
and
updating the tag list to include a next set of tags that are associated with the next set of recommendations, wherein each tag of the next set has one or more representative items associated therewith that are associated with the user of the client device.

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A non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising computer-readable instructions that, when executed by at least one microprocessor of a device, are configured for causing the device to perform:

displaying a recommendations list, in a user visible interface, which includes a current set of recommendations;
displaying a tag list, in the user visible interface, which includes a current set of tags that are associated with the current set of recommendations, wherein each tag of the current set has one or more representative items that are associated with a user of the client device;
displaying an inclusion list, in the user visible interface, which enables addition of one or more tags from the current set of tags to narrow down a next set of recommendations;
receiving a selection input adding the one or more tags to the inclusion list;
in response to receiving the selection input:
updating the recommendations list to display the next set of recommendations which includes one or more recommendations that are similar to the one or more representative items associated with the one or more tags added to the inclusion list,
wherein the next set of recommendations are determined by processing the one or more representative items assigned to the one or more tags which were added to the inclusion list in order to determine representative items that are similar to each other;
and
updating the tag list to include a next set of tags that are associated with the next set of recommendations, wherein each tag of the next set has one or more representative items associated therewith that are associated with the user of the client device.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 17/008,064Filed 31 Aug 2020 · continuation
Priority: 15 Sep 2017
Published: US 2021/0049211 A118 Feb 2021
Granted: 5 Jul 2022
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification7 codes

G06F 16/90324
Query formulation: using system suggestions
G06F 16/23
Of structured data, e.g. relational data: updating
G06F 16/90335
Querying: query processing
G06F 16/904
Details of database functions independent of the retrieved data types: browsing; Visualisation therefor

Family

Application15/705,886Parent of this continuation · filed 15 Sep 2017
US 2021/0049211 A1Pre-grant publication · published 18 Feb 2021
US 10,762,136 B2Parent of this continuation
US 2019/0087435 A1Published application
US 11,379,528 B2This patent

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