The present invention relates to identifying highly valued recommendations of a user in a media recommendation network.
Social networks are a key component of many systems ranging from instant messaging systems to media recommendation systems. One example of a social network based recommendation system is described in commonly owned and assigned U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11/484,130, entitled P2P NETWORK FOR PROVIDING REAL TIME MEDIA RECOMMENDATIONS, which was filed on Jul. 11, 2006 and is hereby incorporated herein by reference in its entirety. In general, social network based recommendation systems, such as that described in U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11/484,130, enable users to send media recommendations to and receive media recommendations from other users in a social network. However, one issue with social network based systems, including social network based recommendation systems, is the discovery of new friends. Traditionally, a user has been required to have prior knowledge of friends that the user desires to add to his or her social network or is allowed to select new friends from a global list of users. As such, there is a need for a system and method of quickly and easily discovering new friends for the user's social network.
The present invention relates to identifying highly valued recommendations of a user in a media recommendation network. Recommendation paths for the highly valued recommendations may then be used to discover new friends for the user. In general, media items are recommended among users in a media recommendation network. For example, a particular media item may be recommended from an originating user to one or more friends of the originating user, from the friends of the originating user to one or more of their friends, and so on. In order to enable discovery of new friends, use of media items by the users is monitored. If the use of a media item by a user exceeds a threshold, a determination is made as to whether the media item was recommended to the user. If so, that recommendation is identified as a highly valued recommendation for that user. Thereafter, when the user desires to identify new friends from which to receive recommendations and to which to send recommendations, a recommendation path for the highly valued recommendation is identified. Users in the recommendation path that are not already friends of the user are identified as potential new friends for the user. The user may then select one or more of the potential new friends as new friends for the user. Alternatively, one or more of the potential new friends may be programmatically, or automatically, selected as new friends for the user.
In one embodiment, in order to monitor use, a play count indicative of a number of times the user has played the media item is maintained. When the user has played the media item more than a play count threshold number of times, the recommendation of the media item to the user is identified as a highly valued recommendation for the user. In another embodiment, in order to monitor the user, a recommendation count indicative of a number of times that the user has recommended the media item to another user is maintained. When the user has recommended the media item more than a recommendation count threshold number of times, the recommendation of the media item to the user is identified as a highly valued recommendation for the user. In yet another embodiment, both the play count and the recommendation count may be monitored. When the user plays or recommends the media item more than a threshold number of times, the recommendation of the media item to the user is identified as a highly valued recommendation for the user.
Those skilled in the art will appreciate the scope of the present invention and realize additional aspects thereof after reading the following detailed description of the preferred embodiments in association with the accompanying drawing figures.
The accompanying drawing figures incorporated in and forming a part of this specification illustrate several aspects of the invention, and together with the description serve to explain the principles of the invention.
The embodiments set forth below represent the necessary information to enable those skilled in the art to practice the invention and illustrate the best mode of practicing the invention. Upon reading the following description in light of the accompanying drawing figures, those skilled in the art will understand the concepts of the invention and will recognize applications of these concepts not particularly addressed herein. It should be understood that these concepts and applications fall within the scope of the disclosure and the accompanying claims.
The central server 12 includes a recommendation forwarding function 20, a highly valued recommendation identification function 22, a new friend discovery function 24, and a database 26. The database 26 may alternatively be a remote database 26 accessed by the central server 12 via a remote connection such as, but not limited to, the network 16. In general, each of the recommendation forwarding function 20, the highly valued recommendation identification function 22, and the new friend discovery function 24 is preferably implemented in software. However, the present invention is not limited thereto. Further, while the recommendation forwarding function 20, the highly valued recommendation identification function 22, and the new friend discovery function 24 are illustrated as separate functional blocks, the present invention is not limited thereto. The functionality provided by the recommendation forwarding function 20, the highly valued recommendation identification function 22, and the new friend discovery function 24 may be combined or further divided in any desired manner.
The operation of each of the recommendation forwarding function 20, the highly valued recommendation identification function 22, and the new friend discovery function 24 is described below in detail. However, in general, the recommendation forwarding function 20 operates to receive recommendations from the user devices 14-1 through 14-N and forward those recommendations to others of the user devices 14-1 through 14-N associated with the desired recipients. For example, the recommendation forwarding function 20 may receive a recommendation for a media item from the user device 14-1. The recommendation preferably includes a media item identifier (ID) for the recommended media item rather than the media item itself. However, the recommendation may alternatively include the media item itself. The recommendation forwarding function 20 then forwards the recommendation to one or more of the user devices 14-2 through 14-N associated with friends of the user 18-1. In an alternative embodiment, the user 18-1 may select one or more friends from his friends list to which the recommendation is to be provided. The selected friends may be identified in the recommendation or provided to the recommendation forwarding function 20 in a separate message from the user device 14-1.
The highly valued recommendation identification function 22 generally operates to identify recommendations that are highly valued to the users 18-1 through 18-N. More specifically, using the user device 14-1 as an example, the highly valued recommendation identification function 22 monitors use of media items by the user device 14-1. In order to monitor the use of the media item, the highly valued recommendation identification function 22 may monitor the number of times that media items are played by the user 18-1 at the user device 14-1, the number of times that each particular media item is recommended by the user 18-1 of the user device 14-1, or both. When a media item is played greater than a play count threshold number of times or when a media item is recommended greater than a recommendation count threshold number of times, the highly valued recommendation identification function 22 determines whether the media item was previously recommended to the user 18-1 of the user device 14-1. If so, the recommendation of the media item is identified as a highly valued recommendation of the user 18-1.
The new friend discovery function 24 generally operates to identify new potential friends for the users 18-1 through 18-N using recommendation paths for highly valued recommendations of the users 18-1 through 18-N. Again, using the user 18-1 as an example, the user 18-1 may initiate a process at the user device 14-1 for requesting a list of potential new friends for the user 18-1. The user device 14-1 then sends a request for a list of new potential friends to the central server 12. In response, the new friend discovery function 24 identifies a recommendation path for each of a number of highly valued recommendations of the user 18-1 identified by the highly valued recommendation identification function 22. A recommendation path includes an originating recommender and zero or more intermediate recommenders through which the recommendation was propagated to the user 18-1. Any of the other users 18-2 through 18-N that are in the recommendation path and are not already friends of the user 18-1 are identified as potential new friends for the user 18-1. A list of the potential new friends is then returned to the user device 14-1, where the user 18-1 may select one or more of the potential new friends to add as new friends. Alternatively, either the central server 12 or the user device 14-1 may operate to programmatically, or automatically, select new friends for the user 18-1 from the list of potential new friends using a technique such as, for example, user profile matching. As used herein, a “friend” of the user 18-1 is another user from the users 18-2 through 18-N identified as such by, for example, a friends list associated with the user 18-1. The friends of the user 18-1 form, or are part of, a social network of the user 18-1 such as, for example, the media recommendation network of the user 18-1.
The database 26 generally stores information enabling the operation of the recommendation forwarding function 20, the highly valued recommendation identification function 22, and the new friend discovery function 24. In this embodiment, the database 26 stores a user table 28, a friends list table 30, a media item table 32, a play count table 34, a recommendation count table 36, a recommendation table 38, a recommendation path table 40, and a highly valued recommendation table 42. Note that while tables are discussed herein as an example, the corresponding information may be stored in any type or number of data structures. The contents of the user table 28, the friends list table 30, the media item table 32, the play count table 34, the recommendation count table 36, the recommendation table 38, the recommendation path table 40, and the highly valued recommendation table 42 are discussed below in detail.
The user devices 14-1 through 14-N may be any type of user device capable of connecting to the network 16 and having media playback capabilities. For example, each of the user devices 14-1 through 14-N may be a personal computer, a portable media player device such as an Apple iPod® or Microsoft Zune® media player having wireless capabilities, a set-top box, a game console, or the like. The user devices 14-1 through 14-N include playback notification and recommendation functions 44-1 through 44-N, media playback functions 46-1 through 46-N, and user media collections 48-1 through 48-N (hereinafter media collections 48-1 through 48-N), respectively. Preferably, the playback notification and recommendation functions 44-1 through 44-N and the media playback functions 46-1 through 46-N are implemented in software. However, the present invention is not limited thereto. The playback notification and recommendation functions 44-1 through 44-N and the media playback functions 46-1 through 46-N may alternatively be implemented in hardware or a combination of hardware and software. Further, while the playback notification and recommendation functions 44-1 through 44-N are illustrated as being separate from the media playback functions 46-1 through 46-N, the present invention is not limited thereto. The playback notification and recommendation functions 44-1 through 44-N may alternatively be implemented as part of the media playback functions 46-1 through 46-N.
Using the user device 14-1 as an example, the playback notification and recommendation function 44-1 operates to provide play notifications to the central server 12 in response to playback of media items by the media playback function 46-1. The play notifications include the media item ID of the media item played and a user ID of the user 18-1. The play notifications are used by the highly valued recommendation identification function 22 to maintain the play count table 34. In addition, in one embodiment, the play notifications operate as recommendations to be provided to the friends of the user 18-1. As such, when such recommendations are desired, the play notifications may be referred to as recommendations and may also be used by the highly valued recommendation identification function 22 to maintain the recommendation count table 36. Thus, in a system where there are only play notifications, the play count and recommendation count values would be the same.
The playback notification and recommendation function 44-1 may also operate to generate recommendations as instructed by the user 18-1. More specifically, whereas playback notifications may be sent to the central server 12 as recommendations in response to playback of the media items at the user device 14-1, the playback notification and recommendation function 44-1 may also enable the user 18-1 to make recommendations at any time. For example, the user 18-1 may select a media item to be recommended and initiate a recommendation to all of his friends or to at least one select friend. In response, the playback notification and recommendation function 44-1 sends a corresponding recommendation to the central server 12. The recommendation includes a user ID of the user 18-1 and a media item ID of the recommended media item. In addition, the recommendation may include the user IDs of the desired recipients for the recommendation. The recommendation forwarding function 20 then forwards the recommendation to the desired recipients.
The playback notification and recommendation function 44-1 may also operate to process recommendations received from the friends of the user 18-1. For example, the playback notification and recommendation function 44-1 may score the recommended media items as a function of user preferences of the user 18-1. Recommended media items scored above a threshold value that are not already in the media collection 48-1 of the user 18-1 may be obtained from a media distribution service such as or similar to, for example, Apple's iTunes® store. The media items in the media collection 48-1 of the user 18-1 may then be prioritized as a function of their scores. For more information regarding an exemplary scoring process, the interested reader is directed to U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11/484,130, which has been incorporated herein by reference in its entirety.
The recommendation forwarding function 20 then determines whether the recommendation is a new recommendation (step 102). In other words, the recommendation forwarding function 20 determines whether the recommended media item was previously recommended to the user 18-1. More specifically, in one embodiment, the recommendation forwarding function 20 performs a double query on the recommendation table 38 and the recommendation path table 40 to determine whether the recommended media item was previously recommended to the user 18-1. For example, the recommendation forwarding function 20 may first query the recommendation table 38 to identify the recommendation IDs of all recommendations for the recommended media item. Note that different recommendations for the recommended media item may have originated from different originating users. Using the identified recommendation IDs and the user ID of the user 18-1, the recommendation forwarding function 20 then queries the recommendation path table 40 to determine whether there is an entry for any one of the identified recommendation IDs where the user 18-1 is identified as the recipient. If so, the media item was previously recommended to the user 18-1 by another user and, as such, the recommendation received from the user 18-1 is not a new recommendation. If there is no entry for any of the identified recommendation IDs identifying the user 18-1 as the recipient, then the recommendation received from the user 18-1 is a new recommendation.
Using
If the recommendation is not a new recommendation, the process proceeds to step 106. If the recommendation is a new recommendation, the recommendation forwarding function 20 assigns a new recommendation ID to the recommendation and creates a new entry in the recommendation table 38 (step 104). The new entry in the recommendation table 38 includes the recommendation ID assigned to the recommendation, the media item ID of the recommended media item, and the user ID of the user 18-1 as the originating user.
Next, whether or not the recommendation is a new recommendation, the recipients for the recommendation are identified (step 106). In one embodiment, the recommendation forwarding function 20 queries the database 26 to obtain the friends list of the user 18-1. The friends of the user 18-1 are identified as the recipients of the recommendation. In another embodiment, the recommendation received from the user device 14-1 may include the user IDs of the desired recipients. Alternatively, the user device 14-1 may provide a list including the user IDs of the desired recipients separately from the recommendation.
Once the recipients are identified, the recommendation forwarding function 20 sends the recommendation to each of the recipients and updates the recommendation path table 40 (step 108). The recommendation path table 40 is updated by creating a new entry for each of the recipients. Each of these entries includes the recommendation ID of the recommendation, the user ID of the user 18-1 as the recommender, and the user ID of the corresponding recipient. Note that if the recommendation is a new recommendation, the recommendation ID for all of the new entries in the recommendation path table 40 is the recommendation ID assigned to the recommendation. Otherwise, the recommendation ID is the same as that for the recommendation for the media item previously received by the user 18-1, which was identified in step 102.
A determination is then made as to whether the play count value is greater than a play count threshold value (step 204A). If not, the play count value is incremented by one (1) (step 206A). The play count value is updated in the play count table 34. The highly valued recommendation identification function 22 then determines whether the updated play count value is greater than the play count threshold (step 208A). If so, the process proceeds to
Returning to step 204A, if the play count value is already greater than the play count threshold, the play count value is incremented by one (1) (step 210A). The play count value is updated in the play count table 34 and the process ends. Note that since the play count value is already greater than the play count threshold, any recommendation for the media item previously received by the user 18-1 has already been identified as a highly valued recommendation.
Turning to the flow chart of
A determination is then made as to whether the recommendation count value is greater than a recommendation count threshold value (step 204B). If not, the recommendation count value is incremented by one (1) (step 206B). Alternatively, the recommendation count value may be incremented by the number of recipients to receive the recommendation from the user 18-1. The recommendation count value is updated in the recommendation count table 36. The highly valued recommendation identification function 22 then determines whether the updated recommendation count value is greater than the recommendation count threshold (step 208B). If so, the process proceeds to
Returning to step 204B, if the recommendation count value is already greater than the recommendation count threshold, the recommendation count value is incremented by one (1) (step 210B). Alternatively, the recommendation count value may be incremented by the number of recipients to receive the recommendation from the user 18-1. The recommendation count value is updated in the recommendation count table 36 and the process ends. Note that since the recommendation count threshold is already greater than the recommendation count value, any recommendation for the media item previously received by the user 18-1 has already been identified as a highly valued recommendation.
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The first recommendation in the list of recommendations of the media item to the user 18-1 is then identified (step 214). A determination is then made as to whether there is an entry in the highly valued recommendation table 42 for that recommendation using the corresponding recommendation ID (step 216). If so, the process proceeds to step 220. If not, the highly valued recommendation identification function creates an entry for the recommendation for the user 18-1 (step 218). For the embodiment of the highly valued recommendation table 42 shown in
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The new friend discovery function 24 then starts at, or identifies, the first recommender, or user, in the list of users in the recommendation path (step 308). A determination is made as to whether the recommender is already in the friends list of the user 18-1 (step 310). If so, the process proceeds to step 314. Otherwise, the new friend discovery function 24 identifies the recommender as a potential new friend for the user 18-1 (step 312). The new friend discovery function 24 then determines whether there are any more recommenders in the recommendation path to be processed (step 314). If so, the new friend discovery function 24 goes to the next recommender in the list of users in the recommendation path (step 316) and returns to step 310.
Returning to step 314, once there are no more recommenders in the list of users in the recommendation path, the new friend discovery function 24 determines whether there are more highly valued recommendations for the user 18-1 (step 318). If so, the new friend discovery function 24 moves to the next highly valued recommendation for the user 18-1 (step 320) and returns to step 306. Returning to step 318, once there are no more highly valued recommendations for the user 18-1, the new friend discovery function 24 returns a list of potential new friends to the user device 14-1 of the user 18-1 (step 322), and then the process ends.
At this point, the user 18-1 may select one or more of the potential new friends to add to his or her friends list. Note that the new friend discovery function 24 may provide additional information describing the potential new friends to the user 18-1 at the user device 14-1 automatically or upon request. In an alternative embodiment, either the central server 12 or the user device 14-1 may operate to automatically select or recommend new friends from the list of potential new friends using a technique such as, but not limited to, user profile matching. A user profile may include, for example, biographical information describing the corresponding user, demographic information describing the corresponding user, preferences of the corresponding user such as music preferences, a play history of the corresponding user, or the like. In yet another embodiment, all of the potential new friends may be added as new friends of the user 18-1.
The present invention provides substantial opportunity for variation without departing from the spirit or scope of the present invention. For example, rather than utilizing a central server 12 to forward recommendations among the user devices 14-1 through 14-N, the recommendations may be exchanged between the user devices 14-1 through 14-N directly in a direct peer-to-peer (P2P) fashion. As another example, the functionality of the highly valued recommendation identification function 22 and/or the functionality of the new friend discovery function 24 may alternatively be implemented on one of the user devices 14-1 through 14-N or distributed among two or more of the user devices 14-1 through 14-N. For example, each of the user devices 14-1 through 14-N may have its own highly valued recommendation identification function 22 and/or new friend discovery function 24.
Those skilled in the art will recognize improvements and modifications to the preferred embodiments of the present invention. All such improvements and modifications are considered within the scope of the concepts disclosed herein and the claims that follow.
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