Topic to social media identity correlation
AssigneeBluefin Labs, Inc.
InventorMichael Ben Fleischman
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Abstract
An identification server correlates the web browsing behavior of individuals with their use of social media systems. Based on these behaviors, web identifiers (referred to as identities or IDs) may be matched to social media identifiers; these matches being determined, stored, and output as a confidences that the web identity of the user corresponds to a social media identity. Each web identity may be associated with one or more social media identities. The identity correlations between web identities and social media identities may be used along with other alignments to provide information regarding the time-based media (e.g., advertisements) a user may have likely been exposed to, topics the user is interested in, and to provide targeted advertisements.
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A system, the system comprising:
- an identification server comprising at least one computer processor, the identification server configured to:
- receive a request for relevant media content for a web identity of a user;
- identify a television media event associated with a geographical region where the event was aired and a time the event was aired;
- identify social media content items broadcasted by a web-based social networking system and authored by a plurality of social media identities, each social media content item comprising a plurality of features;
- determine, by the computer processor, that at least one of social media content items is relevant to the television media event, wherein determining relevancy of one of the social media content items comprises determining a confidence score that is based on the features of the social media content item and the time of airing;
- select media content relevant to the television media event;
- access a correlation between the web identity of the user and one of the plurality of social media identities who authored the at least one relevant social media content item, the correlation based on a comparison of the web identity's web browsing history to the social media content items authored by the one of the plurality of social media identities;
- provide the selected media content for the web identity based on the correlation and determination of relevancy.
A computer-executed method for comprising:
- receiving a request for relevant media content for a web identity of a user;
- identifying a television media event associated with a geographical region where the event was aired and a time the event was aired;
- identifying social media content items broadcasted by a web-based social networking system and authored by a plurality of social media identities, each social media content item comprising a plurality of features;
- determining, by the computer processor, that at least one of the social media content items is relevant to the television media event, wherein determining relevancy of one of the social media content items comprises determining a confidence score that is based on the features of the social media content item and the time of airing;
- selecting media content relevant to the television media event;
- accessing a correlation between the web identity of the user and one of the plurality of social media identities who authored the at least one relevant social media content item, the correlation based on a comparison of the web identity's web browsing history to the social media content items authored by the one of the plurality of social media identities;
- providing the selected media content for the web identity based on the correlation and determination of relevancy.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.