The present invention is a system and method for assigning user preference settings for fields in a category, and particularly a media category, using selected settings for only a subset of the category fields.
In recent years, there has been an enormous increase in the amount of digital media available online. Services, such as Apple's iTunes® for example, enable users to legally purchase and download music. Other services, such as Yahoo!® Music Unlimited and RealNetwork's Rhapsody® for example, provide access to millions of songs for a monthly subscription fee. YouTube® provides users access to video media. As a result, media items have become much more accessible to consumers worldwide. However, the increased accessibility of media has only heightened a long-standing problem for the media industry, which is namely the issue of linking users with media that matches their preferences.
Many companies, technologies, and approaches have emerged to address this issue. Being able to link users with media that match their preferences allows companies to effectively make recommendations of media items to users. Some companies assign ratings to attributes of identified media. The ratings are assembled to create a holistic classification for the media that is then used by a recommendation engine to produce recommendations. Other companies take a communal approach wherein recommendations are based on the collective wisdom of a group of users with similar tastes by profiling the habits of a particular user based on the information provided by the user and then searching similar profiles of other users. Either approach involves the soliciting, assembling and reviewing of information about a user and/or the user's media likes or dislikes. That information then is used to establish user preferences on which to base media recommendations.
In some recommendation generation schemes, the user's media preferences are used to determine recommendations. User preferences allow more accurate targeting of recommendations. A user may establish his preferences by assigning a weight to different media categories. These media categories may include, for example, genre, artist, title, album or presentation, date of release, or the like. The weight assigned by the user for each of the media categories is used to define the user's preferences, and from those preferences, a profile for that user. One example of such an approach is described in U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11/484,130, entitled “P2P NETWORK FOR PROVIDING REAL TIME MEDIA RECOMMENDATIONS,” filed on Jul. 11, 2006, which is hereby incorporated herein by reference in its entirety.
Media categories may however contain a large number of fields. To effectively assign a weight to a media category, the user must assign a weight to each of the fields within that media category. This may be a difficult and time consuming effort for the user depending on the number of fields in a media category. The genre media category provides a pertinent example of this problem.
Genre may be considered the predominant media category for determining a user's preferences. The genre category is generally recognized as comprising up to one hundred and forty-eight (148) different fields. Users may not spend, and in most cases, will not spend the time to assign 148 different weights to these fields. Alternatively, the user may opt to just assign weights to only certain selected fields of interest. In either scenario, the weighting of the genre media category would be incomplete. As a result, preferences calculated using the incomplete weighting of a media category would be inherently inaccurate. Therefore, any media item recommendation based on those preferences would be inaccurate. Accordingly, there is a need for a system and method to effectively assign preference weights to a set of fields within a media category, and particularly the genre media category, without the user having to individually assign a weight to each field within that media category.
The present invention is a system and method for assigning user preference settings for fields in a category using selected settings for only a subset of the category fields. A subset of fields for a category is defined. A base setting for each field in the subset of the category fields is established. The base setting may be set by the user selecting a base setting or by a default base setting. Once a user selects the base settings for the subset of category fields, a set weight is determined for the fields in the category not in the subset. That is possible because the fields in the subset of category fields are chosen from fields that contain aspects and attributes of the other fields.
In one embodiment, a weighting coefficient corresponding to each field in the subset is determined. For example, with respect to a media category in particular, if there are eight fields in the subset of the media categories, each field in the media category may have eight different weighting coefficients. A weighting calculation may be used to determine the set weight. The weighting calculation using the base setting and the weighting coefficient is used to calculate the individual weights for each of the fields in the media category. Calculating the weight for a field using the weighting calculation involves multiplying the weighting coefficient for that field by the base setting for each field in the subset. The weighting coefficients initially may be determined from the user's existing profile or play history. Subsequently, the weighting coefficients may be adjusted based on the user's preferences and continued play history.
The weights for the fields may be used to score media items. The user may use the score of the media items to filter received recommendations of media items, send recommendations of media items to others, select media items to play, develop and sort play lists of media items, purchase media items from subscription services, and the like.
The fields in the subset may be displayed on a base setting screen graphic user interface (GUI). The base settings screen GUI displays the field and the base setting established for the field. The base setting may be a weight or preference value. It should be understood that for the purposes of describing the present invention, the terms “weight” and “preference value” have the same meaning and may be used interchangeably. Each field in the subset may have a base setting selector actionable by the user to select a base setting for that field. The base setting selector may be a sliding bar with a range of 0 to 10. The user may select the base setting for one or more fields displayed on the base settings screen GUI by adjusting the base setting selector for that field. The base settings screen GUI also includes a base settings “Done” button. Once the user has selected the base setting for a field, or if the user chooses to not select a base setting for any field, the user actuates the base settings “Done” button. The actuation of the base settings “Done” button indicates that the user has completed the base setting selection process and initiated the determination of the weights for one or more of the fields in the media category not in the subset 14 using the weighting calculation based on weighting coefficients and the base settings. The weights calculated are stored and designated as an advanced setting for each of the fields.
In another embodiment, the user may elect to customize one or more fields by assigning the weight for the one or more fields as the advanced setting. In such a case, the weight assigned by the user for the one or more fields as the advanced setting applies and the weight determined using the weighting calculation based on the base settings of the fields in the subset does not apply. As such, the base settings of the fields in the subset do not affect the weight of the field assigned as the advanced setting. The weight determined using the weighting calculation based on the base settings of the fields in the subset continues to apply on the fields on which the user did not assign the weight.
The base settings screen GUI may include an “Advanced” button. Upon the user actuating the “Advanced” button an advanced settings screen GUI is presented to the user. The advanced settings screen GUI displays all of the fields that are in the media category and the advanced setting established for the field. Each field has a weight displayed as the advanced setting. The weights shown as the advanced settings are the weights determined using the weighting calculation based on the base settings for the fields in the subset. Each field has an advanced setting selector. The advanced setting selector may be a sliding bar with a range of 0 to 10. The user may customize the weight of the field by assigning the weight for a field on the advanced setting screen GUI by adjusting the advanced setting selector for that field. The field for which the user assigns a weight using the advanced setting selector may appear different than the field for which the user did not assign a weight using the advanced setting selector. In this manner, the user may be able to determine which fields have weights that were assigned and which fields have weights that were determined from the base settings.
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 present invention is a system and method for assigning user preference settings for fields in a category using selected settings for only a subset of the category fields. A subset of fields for a category is defined. A base setting for each field in the subset of the category fields is established. The base setting may be set by the user selecting a base setting or by a default base setting. Once a user selects the settings for the subset of category fields, a set weight is determined for the fields in the category not in the subset. That is possible because the fields in the subset of category fields are chosen from fields that contain aspects and attributes of the other fields. Weights for different media categories, for example, genre, artist, title, album, date of release, or the like, may be used to score or rate media items and score and filter media item recommendations. The user's preferences for the different media categories are used to develop a profile for the user. An approach to determining and utilizing user preferences for media categories and the user profile is described in co-pending and previously incorporated U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11/484,130, entitled “P2P NETWORK FOR PROVIDING REAL TIME MEDIA RECOMMENDATIONS.”
As background, a media category typically contains multiple fields. For example, WinAmp®, the proprietary media player written by Nullsoft, a subsidiary of Time Warner, Inc., currently identifies one hundred and forty-eight (148) different fields in the music genre category as one example of a media category.
Please note that although the present invention is described by example with reference to media categories, it should be understood that the present invention applies to any type of category, and accordingly, the present invention should not limited to media categories.
For example, in
The base settings screen GUI 12 includes a base settings ‘Done’ button 18. Once the user has completed the selection of the base settings using the base setting selectors 16, the user actuates the base settings ‘Done’ button 18. Upon actuation of the base settings ‘Done’ button 18, the base settings for the genre fields 10 in the subset 14, whether selected or default, are used to determine the weights of one or more of the genre fields 10 in the genre media category not in the subset 14. As further described below, a weighting calculation may be employed to determine the weights for all the genre media category fields. Actuating the base settings ‘Done’ button 18 initiates the weighting calculation. In the weighting calculation, the base settings for each field in the subset 14 are multiplied by weighting coefficients for each field in the genre media category to provide a weight for that genre field 10 which is stored as an advanced setting.
Note that other means besides, and/or in addition to, a weighting calculation may be used to determine the weights of the category fields. For example, heuristic methods or processes may be used to determine the weights of the category fields from the base settings. It should be understood that the present invention is not limited to using a weighting calculation.
The base settings screen GUI 12 also includes an ‘Advanced’ button 20. Instead of actuating the base settings ‘Done’ button 18, optionally, the user may actuate the ‘Advanced’ button 20. Actuating the ‘Advanced’ button 20 causes an advanced settings screen GUI 22 to open, an example of which is illustrated in
As illustrated in
If the user has not previously assigned an advanced setting for a genre field 10, the advanced settings shown for each genre field 10 will be assigned the weights calculated by the weighting calculation using the base settings from the base settings screen GUI 12, as discussed above with respect to
Each genre field 10 displayed on the advanced settings screen GUI 22 has an advanced setting selector 24, namely advanced setting selectors 24I, 24J, 24K, 24L, 24M, 24N, 240, 24P, 24Q, 24R, 24S, 24T, 24U, 24V, 24W, 24X. The advanced setting selectors 24 shown in
For example, in
The advanced settings screen GUI 22 also includes an advanced settings ‘Done’ button 26. When the user completes the intended assignment of weights for the genre fields 10, or if the user does not want to assign individual weights for any of the genre fields 10 but, instead, accepts the weights as calculated by the weighting calculation, the user actuates the advanced settings ‘Done’ button 26. Upon actuation of the advanced settings ‘Done’ button 26, the genre fields 10 with the advanced settings assigned by the user have the weights as assigned. The genre fields 10 which the user did not assign by an advanced setting continue to have the advanced settings as initially shown and retain the weights calculated using the weighting calculation using the base settings.
Optionally, the genre fields 10 with weights individually assigned by the user selecting advanced settings may be visually distinguished in some manner over the genre fields 10 that retain the weights calculated by the weighting calculation using the base settings. The appearance difference, for example, may involve changing the color of the genre field 10. In this manner, the user can immediately determine which genre fields 10 on the advanced settings screen GUI 22 have weights that were assigned by the user or have weights that were calculated by the weighting calculation using the base settings of the subset of genre fields 10.
As illustrated in
Once the user has opened the base settings screen GUI 12, the user chooses the genre fields 10 in the subset 14 for which the user desires to select a base setting. The user selects the base setting for genre field 10 in the subset 14 by adjusting the base setting selector 16. If a user does not provide a base setting for a particular genre field 10 in the subset 14, that field is automatically set to a default setting (step 202). In one embodiment, the user may select a base setting for the genre fields 10 in the subset 14 in the range of 0 to 10 with 5 being the midpoint and default setting. The base settings selected by the user allow the user to further adjust the influence that the genre field 10 in the subset 14 has on the set weight of all the genre fields 10 in the media category. In other words, in addition to the weighting coefficient, the base settings represent an influence factor used to determine a set weight of a field in the media category.
Upon completing the selection of the base settings, the user actuates the base settings ‘Done’ button 18 (step 204). This action indicates to the system that the user has completed the selection of the base settings for the genre fields 10 in the subset 14. The system stores the base settings, which include both user-selected and default settings, until and if the user subsequently opens the base settings screen GUI 12 again and overrides any settings for the genre fields 10 in the subset 14.
The set weights for the genre fields 10 in the media category are determined using a weighting calculation in the preferred embodiment (step 206). The weighting calculation multiplies the weighting coefficient of each genre field 10 within the media category for each of the genre fields 10 in the subset 14 by the base setting for that field in the subset 14. The base setting may be as selected by the user or the default setting.
As an example, assume that the weighting values for the Folk-Rock field 101 corresponding to each genre field 10 in the subset 14 are as follows:
Similarly, each genre field 10 in the media category has weighting values corresponding to the genre fields 10 in the subset 14.
The weighting coefficient (w) is calculated by dividing the individual weighting value by the Total of the weighting values. Thus, the weighting coefficients (w) for the Folk-Rock field 101 are calculated as follows:
Rock: 5/10=0.50
Classical: 0/10=0
Folk: 5/10=0.50
Techno: 0/10=0
Country: 0/10=0
Alternative: 0/10=0
Jazz: 0/10=0
Funk: 0/10=0
The base settings of the genre fields 10 in the subset 14 as shown on
The weighting calculation for a genre field 10 in the media category is the sum of the products of the weighting coefficient (w) times the base setting (B) for all of the genre fields 10 in the subset 14. Thus, the calculation is as follows:
W=(Rock(w)*Rock(B))+(Classical(w)*Classical(B))+(Folk(w)*Folk(B))+(Techno(w)*Techno(B))+(Country (w)*Country(B))+(Alternative(w)*Alternative(B))+(Jazz (w)*Jazz(B))+(Funk(w)*Funk(B)).
Incorporating the values for the Folk-Rock field 101 in the above calculation, the weighting calculation for the Folk-Rock field 101 is:
Folk-Rock ‘W’=0.5*9+0*3+0.5*6+0*5+0*3+0*5+0*8+0*7=7.5
The set weight of the Folk-Rock field 101 as calculated above corresponds to the weight shown on the advanced settings screen GUI 22 for the Folk-Rock field 101 in
Instead of actuating the base settings ‘Done’ button 18, the user actuates the ‘Advanced’ button 20 on the base settings screen GUI 12 to open the advanced settings screen GUI 22 (step 300). By actuating the ‘Advanced’ button 20, the advanced settings screen GUI 22 opens (step 302). The advanced settings screen GUI 22 displays all of the genre fields 10 in the media category. In this embodiment, the genre fields 10 in the genre media category are displayed. Each genre field 10 has an advanced setting selector 24. The advanced setting selector 24 will indicate the weights selected for that genre field 10. If the user has not previously assigned a weight by adjusting the advanced setting selector 24, the weight setting displayed will be the set weight determined by the weighting calculation using the base settings.
If the user desires to customize the weight of a genre field 10, the user assigns the weight for the genre field 10 by adjusting the advanced setting selector 24 for that genre field 10 (step 304). The advanced settings screen GUI 22 includes an advanced settings ‘Done’ button 26. When the user completes assigning the weight of the fields he chooses using the advanced setting selector 24, the user actuates the advanced settings ‘Done’ button 26 (step 306).
Upon actuating the advanced settings ‘Done’ button 26, the genre fields 10 that have a weight assigned by the user adjusting the advanced setting selector 24 will have the assigned weights as the user assigned. The weights determined using the weighting calculation and based on the base settings are replaced with the assigned weights. The genre fields 10 that the user did not assign the weights by adjusting the advanced setting selector 24 retain the set weights determined by the weighting calculation based on the base settings (step 308). The user then has the flexibility of assigning the weights of certain or all of the genre fields 10 in the media category as the user so desires.
Optionally, once the user actuates the advanced settings ‘Done’ button 26, the advanced settings screen GUI 22 changes the appearance of the genre fields 10 of which the user directly assigned the weight by adjusting the advanced setting selector 24. The change in the appearance may be a change in color, shading or any other indication to distinguish the set weights determined by the weighting calculations from the assigned weights assigned by the user (step 310). In this manner, the user may easily determine the manner in which the weights of the genre fields 10 were established.
The server 32 may be comprised of several components to facilitate user connections and provide media-related services to the user. These components are illustrated as a web component 34, a market component 36, and a server component 38. The server 32 also contains a database 40 that stores data necessary to support the components 34, 36, 38.
Turning to the components 34, 36, 38, the web component 34 provides users access to registration services and permission to access services provided by the server 32. The web component 34 also provides the media application downloading functionality to devices that interface with the server 32. The media application software is executed on the user's computing devices to login, access, and receive the various media-based services from the server 32. The web component 34 provides Internet communication protocol support for communication to users, registration support, and media application downloading, via an Internet based network 42.
The market component 36 provides downloadable media items to users. The downloaded items may include songs or video, and may be of any format type desired, including but not limited to MP3. The server component 38 contains a web services application programming interface (API) 44 to communicate with external devices over the network 42. The server component 38 also contains data models and recommendation logic that controls the overall services provided by the server 32, such as providing media item recommendations to users based on the user's preferences and/or media collection as will be described in more detail below.
The server 32 is also able to communicate with subscription services 46 for accessing media items for downloading. Some media items requested may not be stored locally in the database 40 of the server 32, but rather obtained from subscription services 46 only when needed or on-demand. Further, the server 32 can communicate over the network 42 with content identification systems 48 to provide identifying and other characteristic information about media items, such as information regarding artists, song titles, genre, etc. in the example of song media content in particular. This allows the server 32 to provide users with user-friendly information about media items as part of the services provided by the server 32. The content identification systems 48 may be coupled with or contain content descriptors 50 that are compared to media items to identify and provide information regarding the media items. For an example with regard to songs in particular, the content descriptors 50 may include known fingerprints and/or Global Unique IDs (GUIDs) to identify songs and obtain metadata containing information about the songs, such as title, artist, genre, etc. A uniform resource locator (URL) may be included to identify location(s) for the descriptor information.
The server 32 is adapted to communicate and connect with multiple user devices 52 to provide services to a user. The user devices 52 may be any type of computing device that is capable of performing communications over the network 42 to reach the server 32 and other user devices 52. The user device 52 may also include a user interface which may include components such as a display, speakers, a user input device, and the like. Examples of user devices 52 include, but are not limited to, home computers; computers at work; laptop computers; wireless portable media player (PMP) devices; hand-held computer devices, such as personal digital assistants (PDA) with remote communication capabilities; and the like. A web browser 54 may be included within each user device 52 to provide the user an interface for Internet-based communications, including those with the server 32.
Each user device 52 that desires to access and receive the services of the server 32 first establishes a user account using a standard web browser 54 or other standard Internet communication interface. This allows the user device 52 to download a media application 55 onto the user device 52 using the web component 34 services of the server 32 to provide a customized software interface to the server 32. After the media application 55 is downloaded onto a user device 52 from the server 32, the media application 55 executes on the user device 52. The user device 52 uses a connection with the web services API 44 to communicate with the market and components 36, 38 of the server 32 to receive media items-based services via the user device 52.
The user device 52 also typically contains an audio/video (NV) player 56 that allows the user to use or play back any media item desired. Examples of A/V players 56 include but are not limited to Apple® iTunes®, Apple® iPOD®, and the like. Media items selected for use and/or play include those stored locally at the user device 52 in a user's A/V collection 58, and/or any media item accessed from the server 32, another user device, the subscription service(s) 46, and/or any other system accessible by or coupled to the network 42. Media items can also be recommended to other users in response to a user causing its user device 52 to send a recommendation for a media item over the network 42. The recommendation may go to the server 32 and then to the destination user, or the recommendation may be sent directly to the destination user without reaching the server 32.
The user device 52 may also contain a recommendation engine 60. The recommendation engine 60 is a program, algorithm, or control mechanism that handles sending and/or receiving media item recommendations over the network 42. The recommendation engine 60 may also score media items based on user preferences for the different media categories, for example, user, genre, artist, title, album, lyrics, date of release, or the like, and then filter recommendations from the other user devices 52 based on such preferences. In the system 30, the server 32 receives information when the user device 52, and in particular the recommendation engine 60, causes a media item recommendation to be sent to another user and/or when the user device 52 uses or plays a media item that has been recommended from another user.
The user opens the base settings screen GUI 12 and selects the base settings for the genre fields 10 in the subset 14 (step 412). The recommendation engine 60 determines the set weights of the genre fields 10 using the weighting calculation and stores the set weights on the user device 52 as advanced settings (step 414). Optionally, the recommendation engine may also send the advanced settings to the server 32 (step 416).
The user then has the option of opening the advanced settings screen GUI 22 and assigning the weights for the genre fields 10 in the media category (step 418). If the user does assign the weights, the recommendation engine 60 changes the advanced settings to the weights assigned by the user (
The recommendation engine 60 scores any media items located on the user device 52 using the advanced settings and develops a playlist (step 424). The recommendation engine 60 may send the playlist to the server 32 (step 426) and develops recommendations for acquiring additional media items (step 428).
The user device 52A may contact one or more of the subscription services 46 to request the purchase of a media item on the playlist that is not stored in the user device 52A (step 508). In response, the subscription service 46 may execute a purchase agreement with the user and send the media item to the user device 52A (step 510). The user device 52A downloads the purchased media items (step 512) and updates the playlist (step 514). The recommendation engine 60A then sends the updated playlist to the server 32 (step 516).
If the user plays a media item (step 518), user device 52A sends a recommendation for that played media item to user device 52B. The recommendation may be sent to the server 32 and then to the user device 52B (steps 520 and 522). Alternatively, the recommendation may be sent by the user device 52A directly to user device 52B (step 524).
Although the embodiments of the present invention are directed to the genre media category, the present invention may be applied to any media category, and, accordingly, the present invention should not be limited in its scope to the genre media category but be understood to apply equally to any other media category.
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.
This patent application is a Continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11/696,475, filed Apr. 4, 2007, entitled “SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ASSIGNING USER PREFERENCE SETTINGS FOR A CATEGORY, AND IN PARTICULAR A MEDIA CATEGORY,” the disclosure of which is hereby incorporated herein by reference in its entirety.
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