98 results about "Internet media" patented technology

The present application is directed to methods and systems for providing social interaction within a customized media streaming service. In one aspect, the present application is directed to methods and systems for automated playlist generation based on social metadata. These systems allow for an internet media delivery service to learn about a user's preferences, and changes in those preferences over time, without the user being required to tell the service directly, but rather through social networking profiles and relationships to one or more similar or related users. This allows the service to immediately, without any input from the listener, play programming that is likely to be enjoyed by the user. It also allows the service to learn about changes in a listener's preferences over time without requiring the user to actively express the preferences.

A system and a method manage internet media content by identifying relevant media content associated with a webpage, generating a symbolic representation for the identified media and / or presenting the symbolic representation of the identified media to enable media management, organization, retrieval, consumption and / or redirection functionality to be integrated with a web browsing experience. The system and the method may provide enhanced multimedia functionality integrated with a web browsing experience using an application providing web browser functionality, a plug-in program for an existing web browser, and / or an application associated and / or in communication with a web browser.

The present invention provides methods and apparatus for selecting relating to content selection. In one aspect, the invention provides methods and apparatus for determining appropriate content based upon various other input data, particularly for individuals on whom personal data is already known. In another aspect of the invention provides method and apparatus for analyzing feedback statistics obtained from previously delivered content in order to update new content for delivery. Another aspect of the invention is combinations of content determination with the analysis of feedback statistics, preferably in real-time, to take into account not only individual preferences, but environmental and other factors. An embodiment of the present invention is directed toward personalized advertisements, with particularly preferred embodiments described that are implemented with an Internet media platform, an interactive digital television platform, as well as cross-platform implementations.

A system and method provide for selecting Internet media channels. Generally speaking, the selection involves choosing target channels based on user preferences. In one example embodiment, the system and method receive a user preference relating to a data item available from at least one of a plurality of media providers, augment the user preference with at least one additional preference that is related to the user preference, and select one or more media providers from the plurality of media providers, wherein the selection is based on the frequency with which the selected media provider provides the user preference or the augmenting additional preference.

A system and a method use an application on a mobile device to transfer internet media content to a rendering device in a home network. The application may use an HTML rendering engine to display a web page to a user of the mobile device, and the web page may have controls for accessing the internet media content. The application may receive a user interaction signal which may indicate that a user invoked one of the controls for accessing the internet media content. In response, the application may initiate transfer of the internet media content to the rendering device in the home network and / or may queue the internet media content for later playback using the rendering device.

A system for delivering broadcast and communications services, wherein said services comprise provision of one or more Internet media streams; the system comprising one or more gateways which provide connections to external communications networks and nodes and internal loopbacks from which said services are obtained, each of said gateways comprising: a selection system to selectively establish communication channels with said external communication nodes networks and said loopbacks to establish an individual bidirectional channel between each node network and allow recipients to obtain the communication channel of their choice; a processing system comprising non-blocking matrix switching or routing system, buffering, packeting, and addressing systems; processing said channels containing services into digitized packaged data format and said addressing systems identifying, storing and updating the location of each recipient, and applying routing information to each packet of digitized packaged data to enable packets to be correctly routed through the system.

The present invention, belonging to the field of acquisition and storage of big data of power information, relates to a method for acquiring and storing the big data of power information, and solves the problems in the acquisition and storage process of the big data of power information. The method comprises three steps: data acquisition, data storage and management, and data analysis. The method achieves the beneficial effects that the present invention provides the method for acquiring and storing the power information big data; and the problems of low response speed of a service system and long consumed time for waiting of a user, which are generated due to a large cardinal number of power users and a large quantity of information, can be well solved. Meanwhile, for massive information generated by a trading system on the basis of power data, the method can better complete data extension and analysis functions than a traditional database. Moreover, according to the method, massive Internet media data can be acquired, stored and processed so as to better learn about the trade trend; and during the operation process, the storage method has an efficient inquiring function so that retrieval can be rapidly completed when the data volume is increased sharply.

A method of determining correlations and causality between media program content and consumer responsiveness involves identifying and storing media and commercial program time occurrence and content information and consumer media reviewing actions which occur in connection with the media and commercial program time occurrence and content information. The information is correlated to obtain and assign responsiveness probability values corresponding to type and intensity of consumer response for each of the media and commercial program time occurrence and content information. These responsiveness probability values are then applied to a second media program to place product advertising at a specific time within specific content therein as determined by the responsiveness probability values thus facilitating creation of new ads and modification of existing ones and further, directing placement of those advertisements within any and all broadcast and Internet media programming.

The present application is directed to methods and systems for providing social interaction within a customized media streaming service. In one aspect, the present application is directed to methods and systems for automated playlist generation based on social metadata. These systems allow for an internet media delivery service to learn about a user's preferences, and changes in those preferences over time, without the user being required to tell the service directly, but rather through social networking profiles and relationships to one or more similar or related users. This allows the service to immediately, without any input from the listener, play programming that is likely to be enjoyed by the user. It also allows the service to learn about changes in a listener's preferences over time without requiring the user to actively express the preferences.

The invention broadly contemplates a system providing an integrated television and Internet media experience. The system provides for automatic integration of television and Internet media via identification of source input media, analysis of the identified source input media, retrieval of related Internet content, and integration of the source media and the related Internet content for display.

The invention provides a method for building an industry knowledge mapping database. The method comprises the following steps: obtaining industry data from a data source; processing the industry datain order to extract an entity related to an industry and a corresponding relationship between an entity attribute and / or the entity; and building the industry knowledge mapping database on the basis of the extracted entity, the entity attribute and / or the entity relationship. The invention further provides a method for monitoring specific media events related to an industry on the basis of the industry knowledge mapping database. The method comprises the following steps: obtaining internet media data; detecting events, evaluating events and singling out events on the basis of obtained internetmedia data in order to obtain a specific media event related to the industry; recognizing a direct related entity corresponding to the specific media event; visiting the industry knowledge mapping database on the basis of the direct related entity to determine a non-direct related entity corresponding to the specific media event; and sending pre-warning information to the direct related entity and / or the non-direct related entity.

Presented are embodiments of methods and systems that provide for Internet advertisement pricing and placement to be variably based on the advertisement's performance within a given category of Internet media, while at the same time achieving predictable delivery and pricing for both advertisers and publishers. Techniques are presented where an advertiser's online campaign will be pre-empted only for underperformance on its own merits, and not for its relative performance or price versus other advertisers. Further, techniques are presented for allowing publishers of advertisements to realize increased revenue from their high value media while using tag passbacks to secure a minimum reserve pricing of their choice.

A system and a method use an application on a mobile device to transfer internet media content to a rendering device in a home network. The application may use an HTML rendering engine to display a web page to a user of the mobile device, and the web page may have controls for accessing the internet media content. The application may receive a user interaction signal which may indicate that a user invoked one of the controls for accessing the internet media content. In response, the application may initiate transfer of the internet media content to the rendering device in the home network and / or may queue the internet media content for later playback using the rendering device.

The invention discloses an on-line collaborative nolinear editing system belonging to the technical field of Internet media information processing. The on-line collaborative nolinear editing system comprises a manufacture team management module, a material management module, a timeline operation module, a material previewing module, a user operation management module and a collaborative manufacture management module. Edition operation for respective video of each person is shared by the on-line collaborative nolinear editing system to realize the on-line collaborative nolinear edition system for more people, the efficiency on collaborative edition manufacture of the on-line video program is improved, and the collaborative edition manufacture for more people under different environments can be realized.

A computer-implemented method, advertising network, and computer readable medium for measuring ad performance metrics after user-initiated sharing activity at a website. The method commences by receiving an original internet ad, the original internet ad for hosting within a website (e.g. a social networking website), then recoding the original internet ad (also for hosting within a website) wherein the recoded sharable internet ad comprises ad sharing and instrumentation code for capturing, tracking and later reporting various user-initiated sharing activities by measuring online events using the ad sharing and instrumentation code (i.e. the online events being in response to user-initiated sharing activity) without requiring any explicit action to be provided by the website operator. In some cases, the measured event occurs in the form of expanding an ad, clicking a request to share, printing a coupon, or performing an online conversion action. The ad can comprise any forms of internet media.

A simulcast Internet media distribution system and method for the same is disclosed in which the present creates an enhanced multimedia viewing experience by creating multiple coordinated media channels synchronized to a primary media channel. The media channels are coordinated by a caching and distribution system optimized for distribution over the Internet.

The invention discloses a music player, which comprises a brain wave sensor, a signal transmission device, a play processing chip, a searching module and a playing module. Being matched with a local or an internet media library, the music player can realize a function on automatically playing an appropriate music according to the metal status of a user. When in use, the brain wave sensor is arranged to be closely attached to the head of a user so as to monitor the current mental state of the user through the brain wave signal and to select the appropriate music to play, so the intelligent play of the music is realized, and the user experience can be improved.

A system and a method embed multimedia controls and indications in a webpage which may provide access to internet media content. The multimedia controls and indications embedded in the webpage may be accessible using a standard web browser and may enable a user of the standard web browser to invoke enhanced media functions for internet media content available through the webpage. The enhanced browser functions may include redirection of the internet media content to a rendering device in a home network, and the rendering device may be a different device than the browser terminal. The enhanced browser functions may include downloading the internet media content to a media server or other local storage device in the network, and the media server and the other local storage device may each be a different device than the browser terminal.

An auction system for maximizing advertising efficiency by exposing an advertisement through Internet media, and a method of operating the auction system are provided. The auction system includes Internet media for providing information to an unspecified number of Internet users over the Internet, and having advertising areas. An auction server provides information about Internet media groups, in which some or all of the Internet media are grouped, to subscribing members, and selects one or more members from among members participating in an auction to post advertisements on any one of the Internet media groups. At least one advertiser client accesses the auction server, subscribes to the auction server as a member, inquires about the provided Internet media groups information, selects any one from among the Internet media groups, and enters a bidding price for the selected Internet media group.

The present invention is directed to a method and apparatus for internet feast, or holding feast online. Internet media communications is utilized as feast platform on which the feast is held and feast related information is exchanged. Based on the worldwide speared of internet, feasters from different places could meet, chat, eat and enjoy together online. Many steps for feasting could be implemented and operated online, starting with making invitation, making appointment, making reservation for feast site, searching for menus, browsing food and drink, then making orders, distributing sub-orders, and ending with billing and payment. During the internet feast, food and drink are either served from local kitchen or delivered from nearby kitchen, after the orders are received online by internet food providers. The orders could be originated from one host feast site to multiple guest feast sites remotely. One single feast site is capable to order and enjoy multiple cuisines and food styles around the town, provided by different internet food providers.

A call controller is configured to monitor call signaling for a media call between a first and second endpoint. The call controller dynamically determines when to insert a media proxy into a media session for the call according to a relationship in network topology between the first and second endpoint.

An on-line sales and profit or discount sharing method is executed by a sales center having a web site, and includes: a plan launching step, in which a sales plan is promoted through Internet media and / or conventional media, including goods descriptions, prices, specific time limits for placement of orders, quantities supplied, payment deadlines, discount sharing rules; an order managing step, in which a computer will automatically encode according to when an order was received; an order confirming step, in which orders are validated, removed, and substituted automatically according to the order received; a profit or discount sharing step, in which the profit or discount sharing amount, and / or special sharer amount are determined; and a notification and / or announcement step, in which the profit or discount sharing amount is individually provided and goods are delivered.

A system and method provide for selecting Internet media channels. Generally speaking, the selection involves choosing target channels based on user preferences. In one example embodiment, the system and method receive a user preference relating to a data item available from at least one of a plurality of media providers, augment the user preference with at least one additional preference that is related to the user preference, and select one or more media providers from the plurality of media providers, wherein the selection is based on the frequency with which the selected media provider provides the user preference or the augmenting additional preference.

A method and system for integrating data-source consumer-preference data and internet-medium consumer-preference data for use in targeted advertising and ranking content. Consumer-preference data is determined based on user-interactions with a data source, such as a set-top-box. The data source is classified based on a monitoring taxonomy that specifies content categories and relationships between the categories. The consumer-preference data and the data source classification are aggregated with other preference and classification data, which is used to rank the data source classification data. Journaled internet data sources are analyzed using the monitoring taxonomy to determine internet-medium consumer-preference data. The journaled internet data sources are ranked based interest level, direction level, or authority level. A content category ranking is computed using the ranking of data source classifications and the ranking of the journaled internet data sources, which can be provided as an advertising data input or a standalone content ranking reporting tool.

Convergence systems described in the prior art typically focus on advancing hardware architecture. Such systems provide limited solutions as consumers are restricted to the use of proprietary networks, incur significant extra costs upgrading their equipment and pay subscription fees. General public demands low cost solutions for the consumption of the Internet media content in a traditional TV watching experience in the living room.The present invention provides a software-based solution and includes methods, systems, and software codes for a cost effective delivery and organization of multimedia content, informational feeds and interactive advertisements transmitted over the Internet to the user's TV and / or entertainment system already present in the user's home or office.This invention will further advance the convergence of the Internet, portable screen-based media devices, land line and mobile telephones, and traditional television communication channels. Media content will freely migrate from infinite number of providers / multi-platform environment per consumers' demand, anytime and anywhere.A software program installed on a computer allows users to select from a list of channels obtained from an Internet database. The system accesses the corresponding URL of media content via the Internet. A separate URL is accessed at the same time as the main broadcast with each channel's program information which can be displayed on demand. The system sends the output to the user's AV system. A computer keyboard or a wireless remote control can be used to navigate channels and perform interactive functions of the user interface. Users can select different geographical areas to access local TV channels and radio stations. All channels have a designated alpha-numeric channel ID. Clickable images, video, captions, scrolling ticker or other content which may represent informational feeds or advertisements can be displayed on the screen at any time based on the information obtained from a remote URL. Statistics and user feedback can be sent to a remote URL.

The present application is directed to methods and systems for providing social interaction within a customized media streaming service. In one aspect, the present application is directed to methods and systems for automated playlist generation based on social metadata. These systems allow for an internet media delivery service to learn about a listener's preferences, and changes in those preferences over time, without the listener being required to tell the service directly, but rather through social networking profiles and relationships to one or more similar or related users. This allows the service to immediately, without any input from the listener, play programming that is likely to be enjoyed by the listener. It also allows the service to learn about changes in a listener's preferences over time without requiring the user to actively express the preferences.

A media server is hosted in a service provider's network so that media content can be stored from or rendered to a private network such as a Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) network. Media content may be stored directly by accessing the media server or by downloading the media content to the media server. The media server may support discovery of media content in a local DLNA network, media content fulfillment from a service provider network, and content delivery for a device on the DLNA network. The media server may further route regional traffic to the DLNA network from a media source such as a video on demand (VOD) server or an Internet media server.

The present invention discloses a text mining based attribute analysis method for internet media users. The method comprises the following steps of: (1) text mining: 1.1: creating a label main corpus; 1.2: creating a feature corpus; and 1.3: updating and maintaining the corpus; and (2) acquiring an attribute set of the internet media users: 2.1: extracting total historical article samples of the internet media users and washing the samples; 2.2: performing processing on the samples and obtaining a noise value; and 2.3: comparing the noise value with a threshold a, and if the noise value is smaller than the threshold a, performing model classification to form the attribute set of the internet media users. By using the method disclosed by the present invention, not only be the basic attributes of the users can analyzed and mined and the application range of identifying the attributes of the users can greatly enlarged, but also the basic attributes of the internet media users can be analyzed and the omnidirectional attributes of the internet media users can be provided with support; and the method not only has a wide commercial application value but also points out a studying direction for a mining algorithm of internet media user tags and the application of a knowledge atlas.

A method of advertising includes creating and providing a customer with an electronic address, assigning the electronic address to an internet web page so that the internet web page is viewable when the electronic address is accessed, encouraging the customer to advertise the electronic address in a non-internet medium, and enabling the customer to automatically advertise the electronic address in a non-internet medium by submitting an advertisement containing the electronic address to the non-internet medium on behalf of the customer. The electronic address includes a primary address and a secondary address, the primary address assigned to a main web page and the secondary address having at least one of the following properties: the secondary address is chosen at least in part by the customer; and the secondary address contains no more than approximately fifteen characters.