84 results about "Content discovery" patented technology

A method is disclosed of providing a providing a content discovery platform for optimizing social network engagements. The method is implemented in one or more servers programmed to execute the method. The method comprising retrieving social media data from registered users on one or more social networks, wherein the social media data includes one or more URLs associated with one or more articles, respectively, computing a social importance score for each URL of the one or more URLs, and ranking the one or more URLs by social importance score.

A system and a method for automatically collecting content, the method comprising the steps of: defining a plurality of content sites, creating a collection of virtual agents data including user characteristic data and user behavioral data, presenting the collection of virtual agents to the plurality of content sites; receiving content from the visited internet site; and storing the received content or presenting it to a user.

A method of multimedia content discovery and navigation based on criteria for recommendation includes displaying a multimedia content based on a criteria for recommending the multimedia content, displaying the criteria for recommending the multimedia content along with the multimedia content, processing a first input that includes a selection of the multimedia content, and playing the multimedia content on the selection of the multimedia content. The multimedia content display module may display a second set of multimedia content associated with the second criteria on the selection of the second criteria. The first criteria may include at least one of (i) reasons based on popularity, (ii) reasons based on user favorites, and (iii) reasons based on friends' activities.

Described are systems and methods for photo-based content discovery and recommendation. The methods and systems disclosed provide a photo-based website for allowing users to discover places, people and activity of similar likes and preferences.

Unsupervised crawling of the hidden Web utilizes a query engine, coupled to a crawler system, that automatically and intelligently inserts keywords into text input controls in Web page forms so that the filled form can be submitted to a server to retrieve dynamically generated Web content for indexing. The keywords used to fill form controls are based on the content of corresponding Web pages, which is automatically discovered to generate a set of keywords for filling the controls. The set of keywords can be expanded to include related keywords from other Web pages and Web sites and, therefore, to provide more effective coverage for crawling the Web content. The expanded set of keywords can be continuously expanded by recursively performing similarity analyses based on results from crawling the same and other Web sites.

The present invention is directed to mechanisms for content-aware redirection and content exchange / content discovery that permit a request for content to be redirected to a particular advantageous server that can serve the content.

Determining experts based on a search query of a user includes identifying items in a content collection that correspond to the search query, determining authors of the items, and ranking the authors according to relevance to the search query for each of the items for each of the authors. Determining experts based on a search query of a user may also include complementing the query with additional public search results prior to identifying the items. Complementing the query may include using an external data source to search based on the query. The external data source may be selected from the group consisting of Google Search, Yahoo Search, and Microsoft Bing. Determining experts based on a search query of a user may also include presenting the authors to the user in order of ranking The query may be a natural language query.

The present invention enables a game server to provide hosting services by connecting the game server device to a peer group, notifying at least one member of the peer group of the availability of the server device, and enabling the server device to accept and respond directly to searches for the hosting services, which are directed at the peer group by one or more gaming client devices. Discovery of peer group gaming content as well as updating such content are also provided by the present invention. The present invention further enables both peer group protocol supported and non-supported devices to interact with and provide the services provided by a peer group.

Communication in an AV network includes a Talker device initiating communication with a Listener device via a proxy device for data streaming. The proxy device participates in one or more of: content discovery, connection establishment, AV selection and AV streaming between the Talker device initiating communication with a Listener device.

A link generation system, including a content discovery module for processing data files of a network server to identify servable data, and a link generator for generating links to the servable data to allow the servable content to be accessed using the links. The link generator generates encoded links for accessing dynamically generated data of the network server, the encoded links being in a form suitable for an indexing agent. The link generator processes a database of the network server to determine query data for retrieving servable data from the database. A proxy server receives a request generated in response to selecting one of the encoded links, translates the request, and forwards it to the network server to access corresponding dynamically generated data. The link generation system generates links that can be used to access all of a web site's content, in particular content for which no accessible link previously existed, including dynamically generated content. This allows web site indexing spiders to index web site content that otherwise would not be found or indexed, making it available to search engines.

This invention relates to a system to search and play music / video as per user's mood and preferences through web or a user's net-enabled mobile communication device. The user can select his mood from the options available on the screen. The user can further filter / refine his / her mood-based music discovery results on the basis selection of the category / language of song / video; followed by selection of era and tempo of song / video. The software also includes a gamification module which awards the redeemable virtual coins and achievement badges to a user for outdoing others in content discovering, creating play-lists, saving discoveries, sharing content, etc.

Disclosed are systems, apparatuses, circuits and methods for extrapolating meaning from vocalized speech or otherwise obtained text. Speech of a speaking user is sampled and digitized, the digitized speech is converted into a text stream, the text stream derived from speech or otherwise obtained is analyzed syntactically and semantically, a knowledgebase in the specific context domain of the text stream is utilized to construct one or more semantic / syntactic domain specific query analysis constrains / rule-sets, and a “Domain Specific Knowledgebase Query” (DSKQ) or set of queries is built at least partially based on the domain specific query analysis constrains / rule-sets.

Techniques for recommending media are described. A character preference function comprising a plurality of preference coefficients is accessed. A first character model comprises a first set of attribute values for the plurality of attributes of a first character. The first and second characters are associated with a first and second salience value, respectively. A second character model comprises a second set of attribute values for the plurality of attributes of a second character of the plurality of characters. A first character rating is calculated using the plurality of preference coefficients and the first set of attribute values. A second character rating of the second character is calculated using the plurality of preference coefficients with the second set of attribute values. A media rating is calculated based on the first and second salience values and the first and second character ratings. A media is recommended based on the media rating.

A user may have difficulty making a decision about content such as whether to watch a particular content or determining whether the content is something in which the user will be interested. Disclosed are implementations directed to reengage a user in response to an abandonment event and / or provide analytic data to inform a user's decision regarding consumption of content. Analytic data may be provided to the user to help the user make a decision about what content to consume based on, for example, an abandonment rate or other user metrics that indicate interest or disinterest in certain content.

Network caching performance can be improved by allowing users to discover distributed cache locations storing content of a central content server. Specifically, retrieving the content from a distributed cache proximately located to the user, rather than from the central content server, may allow for faster content delivery, while also consuming fewer network resources. Content can be associated with distributed cache locations storing that content by cache location tables, which may be maintained at intermediate network nodes, such as border routers and other devices positioned in-between end-users and central content servers. Upon receiving a query, the intermediate network nodes may determine whether the content requested by the query is associated with a cache location in the cache location table, and if so, provide the user with a query response identifying the associated cache location.

Mechanisms are provided for allowing a user to linearly or non-linearly discover and navigate media content including live events. A smart timeline includes panels of event information, previews, images, etc. Moving ahead allows discovery of future live media content and events and uncovers mechanisms for setting notifications and reminders. Moving back in time allows discovery of past events and mechanisms for replaying past video and audio content. Event navigation mechanisms can be integrated with calendaring applications to post and select events discovered using event navigation mechanisms.

A method performed by a server to facilitate content sharing between multiple mobile electronic devices includes receiving, from a first mobile electronic device, a first content-sharing request and credentials for establishing a direct wireless connection between the first mobile electronic device and another mobile electronic device for sharing content of the first mobile electronic device. A first content-discovery request is received from a second mobile electronic device, and a location of the second mobile electronic device is also received. The credentials are communicated to the second mobile electronic device when the location indicates that the second mobile electronic device is within an established content-sharing geographical area.

A network navigator interface system and method incorporating a client / server architecture in which a network coarse-grained model (or single object) (NameSpaceObject) is used to create a fine-grained object model is disclosed. The disclosed invention permits a client application to discover the detailed interface provided by each object instance in the fine-grained model. A client application wishing to invoke an operation on a server-side object first obtains an object reference (IOR) to a NameSpaceObject instance. Each NameSpaceObject instance stores a pointer to an object in the fine-grained model. The NameSpaceObject interface provides operations to move this pointer around in a hierarchical model. Once the pointer is set to reference a certain object in the fine-grained model, this object becomes the target for all further operations. The available operations include object contents discovery / manipulation, object interface discovery and operation invocation.

Mobile phone users can subscribe to a notification for new content by creating a profile of user preferences on the operator or manufacturer's website on a server. When new content matching the profile becomes available, the server will send to the mobile phone a WAP push message containing a link to the content. The user can access and download the new content by pressing a dedicated key on the mobile phone and following the link in the WAP push message.

The present invention enables a game server to provide hosting services by connecting the game server device to a peer group, notifying at least one member of the peer group of the availability of the server device, and enabling the server device to accept and respond directly to searches for the hosting services, which are directed at the peer group by one or more gaming client devices. Discovery of peer group gaming content as well as updating such content are also provided by the present invention. The present invention further enables both peer group protocol supported and non-supported devices to interact with and provide the services provided by a peer group.

A content navigation / discovery system is provided. A computer is linked to a library of information objects, and includes a content navigation / discovery utility that includes both a global content discovery utility that is made available to a plurality of users to navigate / discover a plurality of information objects using one or more content filters presented in a content navigation / discovery interface, and a private or semi-private content discovery utility that is made available to one or more selected users for a selected group of users. The global content discovery utility and the private or semi-private content discovery tool are integrated so as to support user workflows that allow one or more users to selectively interact with content through the global content discovery utility and / or the primate or semi-private content discovery utility, and configured to promote emergent and collaborative learning. Related computer implemented methods are also provided. The computer system may be implemented as an e-learning platform or a part thereof.

A user interface (UI) is provided on a client device to a user. The UI includes a concept bar and a content window. The concept bar includes a plurality of concept tabs associated with concepts currently relevant to a collaborative communication session involving the user and other participants. The concept tabs are configured to enable interaction with the concept tabs by the user. The content window is presented separately from the concept bar, and includes content relevant to the collaborative communication session based on the concept tabs presented by the concept bar. The content presented by the content window is modified in response to interaction by the user with the concept tabs.

A system and method for automatic business content discovery are described. In various embodiments, a system includes modules to bind business terms to data validation rules and search data sources for data matching data validation rules. In various embodiments, the system binds matching data to data validation rules. In various embodiments, a user interface is provided for creating and managing business terms and data validation rules. In various embodiments, a method for profiling and monitoring data via graphical controls is presented.

In a method for the dynamic content discovery in a distributed caching network the distribution of content popularity and its access frequency rate are used to determine the most appropriate mapping method(s) to use.

Embodiments are disclosed herein that relate to facilitating the discovery of authenticated content from a variety of sources. One embodiment provides a method comprising receiving a plurality of authentication tokens from the media presentation device, where each of the plurality of authentication tokens represents an established authenticated relationship between a user and a corresponding content source. The method further comprises receiving a request from the media presentation device for an electronic programming guide and sending the electronic programming guide to the media presentation device, where the electronic programming guide comprises a listing of content from a plurality of content sources corresponding to the plurality of authentication tokens.

Systems and methods for presenting content to a user are described. A trained neural network is stored in memory, defining input nodes representing respective attribute values of attribute types, and weights embodying strengths of connections between the input nodes and hidden nodes, as trained for the particular user. Sub-models of the neural network are defined from sets of input nodes of the same attribute type and a corresponding hidden state matrix of trained weights. A request for content assets is processed using a retrieved first sub-model corresponding to a query attribute type and second sub-model corresponding to a target attribute type, to determine relevancy parameters for the user. Content assets are selected for presentation by a media receiver device, based on the determined relevancy parameters. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.

Knowledge automation techniques may include discovering data files from one or more content repositories, and identifying key terms in the data files. For each of the identified key terms, a frequency of occurrence of the key term in the corresponding data file, and locations of the key term in the corresponding data file can be determined. A plurality of knowledge units can be generated from the data files based on the determined frequencies of occurrence and the determined locations of the key terms.