Customizing database information for presentation with media selections
AssigneeKoninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
InventorJ. David Schaffer
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Abstract
Enhanced content data is supplied in association with a media selection. The enhanced content data is customized responsive to a user profile. The uncustomized enhanced content is stored as a data structure having levels of nodes. Each node within a given level represents an alternative version of a shared enhanced content sub-topic. A processor chooses between nodes within the levels and assembles the chosen nodes to produce the customized enhanced content data.
Claims12
A system for enhancing content of a media selection comprising:
- at least one storage device arranged to maintain at least one user profile and enhanced content data related to the media selection;
- and
- a processing device arranged to combine and supply the enhanced content data with the media selection responsive to the user profile,
- wherein:
- the user profile comprises a list of user features;
- the enhanced content data is embodied in a plurality of data structures stored on the at least one storage device, at least one of the data structures having a plurality of nodes, each node comprising a respective piece of candidate enhanced content, at least first and second ones of the nodes in a single data structure representing alternative versions of a shared enhanced content topic;
- and
- the processing device chooses between at least the first and second ones of the nodes responsive to the list of user features.
A computer method for enhancing content of a media selection, the method comprising the steps:
- accessing a user profile embodied on a storage device;
- accessing enhanced content data embodied on a storage device and relevant to the media selection, the enhanced content data comprising a plurality of groups of respective content subtopic items, the respective content subtopic items within each group representing alternative versions of a shared enhanced content subtopic;
- choosing at least one appropriate content subtopic item from at least one of the groups, responsive to the user profile;
- assembling an enhanced content package responsive to the choosing;
- and
- presenting the media selection combined with the enhanced content package to the user.
A system for customizing a media selection, said system comprising:
- at least one storage device arranged to maintain at least one user profile, comprising a list of user features, and the media selection embodied in at least one data structure comprising a plurality of nodes, each node comprising a respective piece of candidate enhanced content, at least first and second ones of the nodes in a single data structure representing alternative versions of a shared topic;
- and
- a processor arranged to choose between at least the first and second ones of the nodes responsive to the list of user features to assemble the media selection.
A system for customizing a media selection, said system comprising:
- at least one storage device arranged to maintain an embodiment of at least one user profile, and an embodiment of candidate items for the media selection comprising a plurality of respective groups of sub-topic content items, at least two of the groups comprising a plurality of respective sub-topic content items representing alternative versions of a shared content sub-topic corresponding to that group;
- and
- a processor arranged to choose between sub-topic content items within the at least two groups, responsive to the user profile, and to assemble the media selection from the results of the choice.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.