Interface for collecting user preferences
AssigneeSap SE
InventorBrian Willis
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Abstract
Various techniques are disclosed for accepting preference information from a user, where the preference information is specific to content elements within a media asset, and the preference information is collected while the user is viewing a display of the media asset. These techniques allow a user to change his or her preference information quickly, easily, and efficiently, and to improve the use of, for example, a search engine, a portal page, a reverse-query portal page, or a video (for example, television) display. For example, the user may update/modify a search being performed by a search engine while viewing one of the media assets discovered during the search, without having to return to a search engine home page or a search results summary page.
Claims78
A method comprising:
- outputting a media asset for presentation to a user on a presentation device, based on preference information, the media asset including content;
- identifying an element from within the content on the presentation device;
- accepting a preference indication regarding the element;
- and
- updating the preference information based on the preference indication.
A user interface comprising:
- a first portion for displaying a media asset, based on preference information, the media asset comprising content;
- a second portion for distinguishing an element of the content;
- and
- a third portion for accepting preference information related to the element.
An apparatus comprising a storage medium having instructions stored thereon, the instructions including:
- a first code segment for presenting a media asset;
- a second code segment for locating content elements of the media asset;
- a third code segment for identifying the content elements within the media asset;
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- a fourth code segment for accepting preference information related to a first content element from among the content elements.
A system comprising:
- a preference database operable to store preference information associated with a user;
- a media asset database operable to store media asset information;
- and
- a server operable to interact with the preference database, the media asset database, and a display viewed by the user, to thereby display a media asset, based on preference information, for viewing by the user, the server comprising instructions for providing:
- a metadata presentation system operable to distinguish content elements within the media asset on the display, and
- a preference input system operable to input a user modification to the preference information with respect to a selected one of the content elements, while the media asset is being displayed on the display.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.