# US 11,907,292 B2 · Systems and methods for providing timely and relevant social media updates for a person of interest in a media asset who is unknown simultaneously with the media asset > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 11,907,292 B2 - Document ID: US11907292B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 17/588,611 - Filed: 2022-01-31 - Published: 2022-11-17 - Granted: 2024-02-20 - Earliest claimed: 2016-05-26 - Assignees: Rovi Guides, Inc. - Applicants: Rovi Guides, Inc. - Inventors: Damares Helena Twyman; Mariana Bonome Pereira Updegrove; Krista Eve Wells Ramirez - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US11907292B2 ## CPC - H04L 67/306: User profiles - G06F 16/784: {the detected or recognised objects being people} - G06F 16/7867: {using information manually generated, e.g. tags, keywords, comments, title and artist information, manually generated time, location and usage information, user ratings} - G06F 16/9535: Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation - G06V 40/172: {Classification, e.g. identification} - H04L 51/52: for supporting social networking services - G06F 40/295: Named entity recognition - G06Q 10/44: Identification of trends within social networks, e.g. identification of trending topics - H04L: TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION (arrangements common to telegraphic and telephonic communication H04M) - G06F: ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N) - G06V: IMAGE OR VIDEO RECOGNITION OR UNDERSTANDING - G06Q: INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES; SYSTEMS OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR ## Abstract Systems and methods are described herein for detecting that a person of interest is displayed in a live video for a threshold amount of time, attempting to identify an identity of the person determining that the attempting has failed, identifying broadcast times corresponding to a period of time in which the person was displayed in the live video, identifying trending topics in a social media space that relate to the live video, ascertaining an identity of the person of interest based on the trending topics, comparing the identity of the person of interest to a database of social media profiles, identifying a social media component that corresponds to the person, determining whether the person has modified the social media component within a predefined period of time, and providing information relating to a modification of the social media component simultaneously with the video. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A method comprising: identifying a first person in a video being transmitted for display, wherein the video is associated with a location and an event; accessing a first profile of the first person on a social media platform; identifying a second person indicated as being related to the first person based on data of a database, wherein the database corresponds to the social media platform; determining that the second person is proximate to the location associated with the transmitted video of the first person by: determining that a global positioning system (“GPS”) device that is operated by the second person indicates that the second person is proximate to the location associated with the transmitted video of the first person, wherein the location associated with the transmitted video of the first person is a location where the video is being filmed; and in response to the determining that the second person is proximate to the location associated with the transmitted video of the first person: causing to be generated for display, simultaneously with the display of the video, at least a portion of a social media component of the social media platform of the second person, wherein the social media component of the social media platform of the second person is a personal space that the second person maintains on the social media platform. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, further comprising detecting the first person in the video being transmitted for display by: determining that a person is present in the video for a threshold amount of time; and in response to determining that the person is present in the video for the threshold amount of time, designating the person as the first person. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, wherein the data of the database indicates at least one of a familial status, a friendship, or chatter between the first person and the second person. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, wherein identifying the second person indicated as being related to the first person based on the data of the database comprises: identifying, from the first profile, that the second person has interacted with the first person within a threshold period of time. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, wherein determining that the second person is proximate to the location associated with the transmitted video of the first person comprises: determining that the second person is captured in the video. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, further comprising: searching the database for a second profile corresponding to an identity of the second person; receiving a plurality of results for the second person; and identifying a single result of the plurality of results as the social media component of the social media platform of the second person. ### Claim 7 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, wherein the causing to be generated for display, simultaneously with the display of the video, at least the portion of the social media component of the social media platform of the second person is further in response to determining that the second person has modified the social media component of the social media platform of the second person within a predefined period of time. ### Claim 8 (depends on 7) The method of claim 7, wherein the determining that the second person has modified the social media component of the social media platform of the second person within the predefined period of time comprises: identifying a time stamp corresponding to modification of the social media component of the social media platform of the second person; and determining that the time stamp is within the predefined period of time of when the first person was detected in the video. ### Claim 9 A system comprising: communications circuitry; and control circuitry configured to: identify a first person in a video being transmitted for display, wherein the video is associated with a location and an event; access a first profile of the first person on a social media platform; identify a second person indicated as being related to the first person based on data of a database, wherein the database corresponds to the social media platform; determine that the second person is proximate to the location associated with the transmitted video of the first person by: determining that a global positioning system (“GPS”) device that is operated by the second person indicates that the second person is proximate to the location associated with the transmitted video of the first person, wherein the location associated with the transmitted video of the first person is a location where the video is being filmed; and in response to the determining that the second person is proximate to the location associated with the transmitted video of the first person: cause to be generated for display, simultaneously with the display of the video, at least a portion of a social media component of the social media platform of the second person, wherein the social media component of the social media platform of the second person is a personal space that the second person maintains on the social media platform. ### Claim 10 (depends on 9) The system of claim 9, wherein the control circuitry is further configured to: detect the first person in the video being transmitted for display by: determining that a person is present in the video for a threshold amount of time; and in response to determining that the person is present in the video for the threshold amount of time, designating the person as the first person. ### Claim 11 (depends on 9) The system of claim 9, wherein the data of the database indicates at least one of a familial status, a friendship, or chatter between the first person and the second person. ### Claim 12 (depends on 9) The system of claim 9, wherein the control circuitry is configured to identify the second person indicated as being related to the first person based on the first profile by: identifying, from the first profile, that the second person has interacted with the first person within a threshold period of time. ### Claim 13 (depends on 9) The system of claim 9, wherein the control circuitry is configured to determine that the second person is proximate to the location associated with the transmitted video of the first person by: determining that the second person is captured in the video. ### Claim 14 (depends on 9) The system of claim 9, wherein the control circuitry is further configured to: search the database for a second profile corresponding to an identity of the second person; receive a plurality of results for the second person; and identify a single result of the plurality of results as the social media component of the social media platform of the second person. ### Claim 15 (depends on 14) The system of claim 14, wherein the control circuitry is configured to identify the single result of the plurality of results as the social media component of the social media platform of the second person by: comparing additional attributes of the second person to content of each result of the plurality of results; identifying a highest matching result of the plurality of results based on the comparing of the additional attributes to the content of each result of the plurality of results; and designating the highest matching result as the single result. ### Claim 16 (depends on 9) The system of claim 9, wherein the control circuitry is configured to cause to be generated for display, simultaneously with the display of the video, at least the portion of the social media component of the social media platform of the second person further in response to determining that the second person has modified the social media component of the social media platform of the second person within a predefined period of time. ### Claim 17 (depends on 16) The system of claim 16, wherein the control circuitry is configured to determine that the second person has modified the social media component of the social media platform of the second person within the predefined period of time by: identifying a time stamp corresponding to modification of the social media component of the social media platform of the second person; and determining that the time stamp is within the predefined period of time of when the first person was detected in the video. ### Claim 18 A method comprising: identifying a first person in a video being transmitted for display, wherein the video is associated with a location and an event; accessing a first profile of the first person on a social media platform; searching a database for a second profile corresponding to an identity of a second person; receiving a plurality of results for the second person; identifying the second person as being related to the first person based on data from the database, wherein the database corresponds to the social media platform; determining that the second person is proximate to the location associated with the transmitted video of the first person by: determining that a global positioning system (“GPS”) device that is operated by the second person indicates that the second person is proximate to the location associated with the transmitted video of the first person, wherein the location associated with the transmitted video of the first person is a location where the video is being filmed; and identifying a single result of the plurality of results as a social media component of the social media platform of the second person, wherein identifying the single result of the plurality of results as the social media component of the social media platform of the second person comprises: comparing additional attributes of the second person to content of each result of the plurality of results; identifying a highest matching result of the plurality of results based on the comparing of the additional attributes to the content of each result of the plurality of results; and designating the highest matching result as the single result; and in response to the determining that the second person is proximate to the location associated with the transmitted video of the first person: causing to be generated for display, simultaneously with the display of the video, at least a portion of the social media component of the social media platform of the second person, wherein the social media component of the social media platform of the second person is a personal space that the second person maintains on the social media platform.