US 9,285,947 B1Granted

Rule-based presentation of related content items

AssigneeAudible, Inc.

InventorsGuy Ashley Story, Jr., Ajay Arora, Douglas Scott Goldstein, Douglas Cho Hwang

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Abstract

Features are disclosed for presenting multiple content items based on one or more rules defining how the multiple content items are to be presented. One content item may be a primary content item and any number of additional content items may be related to or supplement the primary content item in some way. Rules may define which related content items may be presented and, in the case of multimedia content (e.g., content with both audio and video elements), which elements of the primary content may be overridden by or mixed with related content, and which may not. References to related content may be embedded in the primary content item, or references may be accessed at a content management system or service.

Claims33

Dependent claims

A system for presenting multiple content items, the system comprising:

a data store configured to store computer-executable instructions;
and
a computing device in communication with the data store, wherein the computing device comprises a processor, and wherein the computing device when executing the computer-executable instructions, is configured to:
cause presentation of a primary content item comprising a primary audio element and a primary video element, wherein the primary content item is associated with data referencing one or more related content items, each of the one or more related content items related to at least a portion of the primary content item, and wherein the primary content item includes a key portion to be presented regardless of whether any related content items are related to the key portion;
obtain, based at least partly on the data referencing the one or more related content items, a first related content item of the one or more related content items, the first related content item comprising at least one of a secondary audio element and a secondary video element;
determine an attribute of content portrayed in a first portion of the primary content item;
determine, based at least partly on the attribute and one or more presentation rules regarding simultaneous presentation of multiple content items, a presentation configuration for the primary content item and the first related content item, the presentation configuration specifying which of the primary audio element, the primary video element, the secondary audio element, and the secondary video element to present at particular times during simultaneous presentation of the primary content item and the first related content item;
cause substantially simultaneous presentation of the primary content item and the first related content item according to the presentation configuration;
determine that presentation of the key portion of the primary content item will occur at a particular time;
and
at the particular time, cause presentation of the key portion of the primary content item instead of causing simultaneous presentation of the primary content item and the first related content item according to the presentation configuration.

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A computer-implemented method for presenting multiple content items, the computer-implemented method comprising:

under control of one or more computing devices configured with specific computer-executable instructions,
obtaining a primary content item comprising a first media element, wherein the primary content item is associated with one or more related content items, each of the one or more related content items related to at least a portion of the primary content item, and wherein the primary content item includes a key portion to be presented regardless of whether any related content items are related to the key portion;
obtaining a related content item of the one or more related content items, the related content item comprising a second media element, wherein a first portion of the related content item is related to a first portion of the primary content item, and wherein a second portion of the related content item is related to a key portion of the primary content item;
determining an attribute of content portrayed in the first portion of the primary content item;
and
determining, based at least partly on the attribute and one or more presentation rules regarding presentation of related content items during presentation of primary content items, a presentation configuration for the first media element and the second media element at a first particular time corresponding to the first portion of the primary content item and a second particular time corresponding to the key portion of the primary content item;
causing presentation of at least one of the first media element and the second media element at the first particular time according to the presentation configuration;
and
causing presentation of the first media element at the second particular time instead of causing presentation of at least one of the first media element and the second media element at the second particular time according to the presentation configuration.

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A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising executable code that, when executed by a processor, causes a computing device to perform a process comprising:

obtaining a primary content item comprising a first media element, wherein the primary content item is associated with one or more related content items, each of the one or more related content items related to at least a portion of the primary content item;
obtaining a first related content item of the one or more related content items, the first related content item comprising a second media element, wherein the first related content item is related to a first portion of the primary content item;
obtaining a second related content item of the one or more related content items, the second related content item comprising a third media element, wherein the second related content item is related to a key portion of the primary content item, and wherein the key portion of the primary content item is to be presented regardless of whether any related content items are related to the key portion;
determining an attribute of content portrayed in the first portion of the primary content item;
determining, based at least partly on the attribute and one or more presentation rules regarding presentation of related content items during presentation of primary content items, a presentation configuration for the first media element and the second media element at a first particular time corresponding to the first portion of the primary content item and at a second particular time corresponding to the key portion of the primary content item;
and
causing presentation of at least one of the first media element and the second media element at the first particular time according to the presentation configuration;
causing presentation of the first media element at the second particular time instead of causing presentation of at least one of the first media element and the second media element at the second particular time according to the presentation configuration.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.