Patent application number | Description | Published |
20130298147 | ADVERTISEMENTS BASED ON VIEWER FEEDBACK - A method, and a corresponding system, enable an advertiser to provide advertisements to viewers based on viewer feedback. The method includes providing advertisements for display to a viewer on a first electronic media display device; receiving a favorability signal for a first advertisement displayed to the viewer, the favorability signal originating from a second electronic media display device independent of the first electronic media display device, the second electronic media display device operated by the viewer; computing a favorability value from the favorability signal, the favorability value based on additional favorability signals; comparing the favorability value to a threshold; and if the favorability value is less than the threshold, replacing the first advertisement with a second advertisement for subsequent display to the viewer. | 11-07-2013 |
20140036152 | VIDEO ALERTS - Systems and methods for providing a video alert include providing a first portion of video to an electronic display and analyzing a second portion of video while the first portion of video is being provided to the electronic display. A character or personality may be identified in the second portion of video and an alert provided based in part on the character or personality being identified in the second portion of video. | 02-06-2014 |
20140037264 | CUSTOMIZED VIDEO - Systems and methods for customizing video include providing a portion of video to an electronic display and identifying a character or personality in the portion of video. A request to perform an action regarding the portion of video may be detected and the action may be associated with the identified character or personality. The action may be performed on a second portion of video in response to the character or personality being identified in the second portion of video. | 02-06-2014 |
20140101244 | Processing Content Spoilers - The disclosure includes a system and method for processing content spoilers. The system includes a controller, a progress module, a determination module, a warning module and a presentation module. The controller receives activity data describing an activity performed by a first user and content data published by a second user. The progress module determines a first progress stage for a subject associated with the activity based at least in part on the activity data. The determination module determines whether the content data includes a spoiler for the first user based at least in part on the first progress stage. Responsive to the determination that the content data includes the spoiler, the warning module obscures the content data published by the second user from the first user and generates a spoiler warning. The presentation module provides the spoiler warning to the first user. | 04-10-2014 |
20140108129 | DETERMINING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF AN ADVERTISEMENT ON A WEBSITE OR MOBILE DEVICE - A system and method for determining the effectiveness of an advertisement on a website or a mobile device is provided. The advertisement is provided for presentation on the website or the mobile device, and a presentation time is identified at which the advertisement was presented. The presentation of the advertisement is associated with a user profile. At least one of a location associated with the advertisement or a product associated with the advertisement is identified, and an acknowledgment of the advertisement associated with the user profile is identified based on the identified presentation time and the identified at least one of the location or the product, after the advertisement is first presented. An effectiveness of the advertisement based on the identified acknowledgment of the advertisement is determined. | 04-17-2014 |
20140115498 | OBTAINING EVENT REVIEWS - Embodiments generally relate to obtaining event reviews. In one embodiment a method includes receiving location data corresponding to a location of a device and receiving temporal data corresponding to a time when the device was at the location. The method also includes obtaining event information based on the location data and the temporal data, and generating a user interface on the device to permit reviews of an event associated with the event information. The method also includes generating one or more prompts based on the location data and the temporal data. | 04-24-2014 |
20140201246 | Global Contact Lists and Crowd-Sourced Caller Identification - Implementations of the present disclosure provide for constructing crowd-sourced global contact lists and for providing caller identification functions. Additional implementations of the present disclosure provide for providing spam identification. The systems and methods described herein contemplate aggregating the information stored in multiple local contact lists. The systems and methods further contemplate analyzing and processing the aggregated information in order to construct a global contact list. The analyzing and processing may involve identifying each phone number appearing in any of the local contact lists, identifying all fields associated with those phone numbers, and identifying, for each field contained in the local contact lists, an entry for which the local contact lists exhibit a threshold degree of consensus. The global contact list created from the aggregation of information from local contact lists can be employed to provide caller identification and spam identification features. | 07-17-2014 |
20150025799 | POINT-OF-INTEREST LATENCY PREDICTION USING MOBILE DEVICE LOCATION HISTORY - A latency analysis system determines a latency period, such as a wait time, at a user destination. To determine the latency period, the latency analysis system receives location history from multiple user devices. With the location histories, the latency analysis system identifies points-of-interest that users have visited and determines the amount of time the user devices were at a point-of-interest. For example, the latency analysis system determines when a user device entered and exited a point-of-interest. Based on the elapsed time between entry and exit, the latency analysis system determines how long the user device was inside the point-of-interest. By averaging elapsed times for multiple user devices, the latency analysis system determines a latency period for the point-of-interest. The latency analysis system then uses the latency period to provide latency-based recommendations to a user. For example, the latency analysis system may determine a shopping route for a user. | 01-22-2015 |
20150026006 | POINT-OF-INTEREST LATENCY PREDICTION USING MOBILE DEVICE LOCATION HISTORY - A latency analysis system determines a latency period, such as a wait time, at a user destination. To determine the latency period, the latency analysis system receives location history from multiple user devices. With the location histories, the latency analysis system identifies points-of-interest that users have visited and determines the amount of time the user devices were at a point-of-interest. For example, the latency analysis system determines when a user device entered and exited a point-of-interest. Based on the elapsed time between entry and exit, the latency analysis system determines how long the user device was inside the point-of-interest. By averaging elapsed times for multiple user devices, the latency analysis system determines a latency period for the point-of-interest. The latency analysis system then uses the latency period to provide latency-based recommendations to a user. For example, the latency analysis system may determine a shopping route for a user. | 01-22-2015 |
20150038173 | PREDICTIVE ASSISTANCE INFORMATION - A computing device described may determine a current speed of the computing device, and, responsive to determining that the current speed of the computing device satisfies a threshold speed, determine whether a current geographic location of the computing device is within with an uncommon stopping area, the uncommon stopping area being a geographic area in which less than a threshold number of other computing devices have been determined to have previously stopped. The computing device may also, responsive to determining that the current geographic location of the computing device is within the uncommon stopping area and responsive to determining that assistance-type information is relevant to the user of the computing device, determine, based on the current geographic location, assistance information relevant to the current geographic location, and output, for display, the assistance information. | 02-05-2015 |
20150039690 | Inferring Social Groups Through Patterns of Communication - Software authenticates the user of a social networking service which maintains one or more lists of contacts associated with the user that can be used by the user to selectively share content. The software ascertains a proposed group of contacts from at least one of the lists. The user and members of the proposed group are related by a plurality of communications and the communications are associated with one or more attributes including at least one of geographic locations associated with the communication, time of communication, or medium of communication. The software presents the proposed group of contacts to the user, with a recommendation that the user create a new list of contacts associated with the user from the proposed group of contacts. The software creates the new list of contacts from the proposed group, if the user indicates acceptance of the recommendation. | 02-05-2015 |
20150058357 | RATINGS WEIGHTED OR FILTERED BY CONTEXT - The subject technology discloses configurations for accessing one or more entries of rating information for a place associated with a geographical location; identifying, using one or more criteria, a type of user that authored each of the accessed one or more entries of rating information for the place; for a user viewing the one or more entries of rating information for the place, identifying, using one or more criteria, a type of user that is viewing the accessed one or more entries of rating information for the place; filtering the accessed one or more entries of rating information for the place according to the type of user that authored each of the accessed entries and the type of user that is viewing the accessed entries; and providing for display the filtered one or more entries of rating information for the place. | 02-26-2015 |
20150058679 | APPLICATION RESOURCE UTILIZATON MANAGEMENT - Methods and systems for automatically identifying an application that is experiencing performance problems caused by a resource utilization event may include receiving an indication that an application is experiencing a performance issue. It may be determined that the performance issue is caused by a resource utilization event on a device. The resource utilization event may include the application and one or more other applications running simultaneously, use of one or more functions of the device simultaneously by at least one of the first application and one or more other applications, and/or a resource utilization overload based on simultaneous use of a plurality of sensors on the device. Next, action may be taken to correct the performance issue of the application. | 02-26-2015 |