Identifying viral videos
AssigneeGoogle Inc.
InventorsMirjam Wattenhofer, Tom Broxton, Anders Brodersen, Jonas Yngvesson, Jakub Petrykowski
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Abstract
The present invention enables methods and systems that identify viral videos. A viral video is a video which received a percentage of its views from one person sharing the video with another person. That is, a viral video received most of its views from person to person sharing. A video hosting server determines whether a video is a viral video based at least in part on views the video received through person to person sharing and the total number of views the video has received.
Claims27
A computer-implemented method for identifying a viral video hosted on a video hosting website, the method comprising:
- determining a set of views received by the video;
- classifying, for each of the views in the set, a source that referred the video to a viewer as either a social source or a non-social source;
- determining a ratio of a total number of views of the video that were referred to the viewer by social sources to a total number of views in the set of views received by the video;
- and
- identifying the video as a viral video in response to the ratio exceeding a ratio threshold.
A computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium containing computer program code for controlling a processor to perform a method for identifying a viral video hosted on a video hosting website, the method comprising:
- determining a set of views received by the video;
- classifying, for each of the views in the set, a source that referred the video to a viewer as either a social source or a non-social source;
- determining a ratio of a total number of views of the video that were referred to the viewer by social sources to a total number of views in the set of views received by of the video;
- and
- identifying the video as a viral video in response to the ratio exceeding a ratio threshold.
A system for identifying a viral video hosted on a video hosting website, the system comprising:
- at least one server computer comprising a computer processor and a storage database comprising videos, the computer processor configured to execute instructions stored on a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, the instructions when executed by the computer processor cause the processor to:
- determine a set of views received by the video;
- classify, for each of the views in the set, a source that referred the video to a viewer as either a social source or a non-social source;
- determine a ratio of a total number of views of the video that were referred to the viewer by social sources to a total number of views in the set of views received by the video;
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- identify the video as a viral video in response to the ratio exceeding a ratio threshold.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.