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US 12,713,089 B2Granted
Methods and systems for automated content generation
AssigneePluto Inc.
InventorVibol C. Hou
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Abstract
An aspect of the disclosure related to methods and systems configured to distribute interactive media, such as videos, streamed or downloaded over a network and to enable efficient content discovery. An aspect relates to enabling a user to interactively navigate through representations of video content by drilling up to broader genre categories or down to narrower genre categories. An aspect relates to the generation of customized content from existing content using a learning engine and user characteristics. The learning engine may comprise a neural network.
Claims21
A system configured to provide distribution of video content over a network, the system comprising:
- a computer device;
- a network interface;
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- non-transitory computer readable memory having program instructions stored thereon that when executed by the computer device cause the system to perform operations comprising:
- receive a request for a program via the network interface over a network from a user device remote from the system;
- at least partly in response to receiving the request, generate a corresponding manifest comprising a plurality of entries;
- transmit the manifest to the user device;
- stream the program via the network interface over the network to the user device remote from the system at least partly in response to a request made by the user device using one or more manifest entries;
- determine that an end of the program has or is being streamed to the user device;
- generate a plurality of different versions of previews comprising different sets of video clips for a given program in a plurality of programs based at least in part on a maximum permitted clip length and a maximum permitted preview length;
- generate a set of recommended programs from the plurality of programs based at least in part on characteristics of the program;
- access from memory respective images corresponding to recommended programs in the set of recommended programs;
- cause a user interface to be presented on the user device populated with the images corresponding to the recommended programs in the set of recommended programs;
- select respective versions of previews from the plurality of different versions of previews for the recommended programs based on at least one user characteristic;
- automatically cause a playback sequence of the selected respective versions of previews corresponding to the set of recommended programs to begin, wherein the images corresponding to the recommended programs in the set of recommended programs are displayed while a preview is currently playing, excluding an image corresponding to the currently playing preview;
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- at least partly in response to detecting a selection of a first control during playback of a given preview in the selected respective versions of previews, cause the given preview to cease playing and cause a program corresponding to the given preview to be streamed to the user device and to begin playing in full screen mode.
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A computer implemented method, the method comprising:
- receiving a request for a program via a network interface over a network from a user device;
- at least partly in response to receiving the request, transmitting a corresponding manifest comprising a plurality of entries to the user device;
- streaming the program from a server via the network interface over the network to the user device at least partly in response to a request made by the user device using one or more manifest entries;
- generating a plurality of different versions of previews comprising different sets of video clips for a given program in a plurality of programs based at least in part on a maximum permitted clip length and a maximum permitted preview length;
- generating a set of recommended programs from the plurality of programs based at least in part on characteristics of the program;
- accessing respective images corresponding to recommended programs in the set of recommended programs;
- causing a user interface to be presented on the user device populated with the images corresponding to the recommended programs in the set of recommended programs;
- selecting respective versions of previews from the plurality of different versions of previews for the recommended programs based on at least one user characteristic;
- automatically causing a playback sequence of the selected respective versions of previews corresponding to the set of recommended programs to begin;
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- at least partly in response to detecting a selection of a first control during playback of a given preview in the selected respective versions of previews, causing the given preview to cease playing and cause a program corresponding to the given preview to be streamed to the user device and to begin playing in full screen mode.
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Non-transitory computer readable memory having program instructions stored thereon that when executed by a computing device cause the computing device to perform operations comprising:
- receive a request for a program from a user device;
- at least partly in response to receiving the request, transmit a corresponding manifest comprising a plurality of entries to the user device;
- stream the program to the user device at least partly in response to a request made by the user device using one or more manifest entries;
- generate a plurality of different versions of previews comprising different sets of video clips for a given program in a plurality of programs based at least in part on a maximum permitted clip length and a maximum permitted preview length;
- generate a set of recommended programs from the plurality of programs based at least in part on characteristics of the program;
- access respective images corresponding to recommended programs in the set of recommended programs;
- cause a user interface to be presented on the user device populated with the images corresponding to the recommended programs in the set of recommended programs;
- select respective versions of previews from the plurality of different versions of previews for the recommended programs based on at least one user characteristic;
- automatically cause a playback sequence of the selected respective versions of previews corresponding to the set of recommended programs to begin, wherein the images corresponding to the recommended programs in the set of recommended programs are displayed while a preview is currently playing, excluding an image corresponding to the currently playing preview;
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- at least partly in response to detecting a selection of a first control during playback of a given preview in the selected respective versions of previews, cause the given preview to cease playing and cause a program corresponding to the given preview to be streamed to the user device and to begin playing in full screen mode.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.