US 2020/0029126 A1Published application

Providing recommendations based on passive microphone detections

AssigneeRovi Guides, Inc.

InventorJohn Blake

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Abstract

Systems and methods for providing media content recommendations. For example, a media guidance application may determine that a phrase spoken by a first user during a conversation with a second user indicates that the first user will not be consuming media content with the second user during a future time interval. In response to determining that the first user will not be consuming media content with the second user during the future time interval, the media guidance application may identify media assets available for consumption during the future time interval having a given characteristic favored by the second user and a characteristic disfavored by the first user. The media guidance application may then generate, for the future time interval, a media content recommendation of a media asset having the given characteristic, and generate for display, to the second user, the media content recommendation.

Claims21

Dependent claims

A method for providing media content recommendations, the method comprising:

receiving an input, via a microphone, of a conversation between a first user and a second user;
detecting a phrase spoken by the first user in the conversation;
determining that a given audio template of a plurality of audio templates matches the phrase;
determining that the given audio template indicates that the first user will not be consuming media content with the second user during a future time interval;
in response to determining that the given audio template indicates that the first user will not be consuming media content with the second user during the future time interval:
identifying a subset of media asset identifiers from a plurality of media asset identifiers for media assets available for consumption during the future time interval, wherein a characteristic of each media asset of each media asset identifier in the subset matches a characteristic favored by the second user and a characteristic disfavored by the first user;
and
generating, for the future time interval, a media content recommendation of a media asset corresponding to a media asset identifier included in the subset;
and
generating for display, to the second user, the media content recommendation.

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A system for providing media content recommendations, the system comprising:

control circuitry configured to:
receive an input, via a microphone, of a conversation between a first user and a second user;
detect a phrase spoken by the first user in the conversation;
determine that a given audio template of a plurality of audio templates matches the phrase;
determine that the given audio template indicates that the first user will not be consuming media content with the second user during a future time interval;
in response to determining that the given audio template indicates that the first user will not be consuming media content with the second user during the future time interval:
identify a subset of media asset identifiers from a plurality of media asset identifiers for media assets available for consumption during the future time interval, wherein a characteristic of each media asset of each media asset identifier in the subset matches a characteristic favored by the second user and a characteristic disfavored by the first user;
and
generate, for the future time interval, a media content recommendation of a media asset corresponding to a media asset identifier included in the subset;
and
generate for display, to the second user, the media content recommendation.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 16/039,624Filed 19 Jul 2018
Published: 23 Jan 2020
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification9 codes

H04N 21/4668
Learning process for intelligent management, e.g. learning user preferences for recommending movies: for recommending content, e.g. movies
G10L 15/26
Speech recognition: speech to text systems
H04N 21/251
Management operations performed by the server for facilitating the content distribution or administrating data related to end-users or client…:…
H04N 21/25891
Management of end-user data: being end-user preferences