Abstract: User activity dashboards and methods for tuning recommendation models are provided herein. Exemplary methods may include exposing, to an end user device, a current preference model used by a recommendation engine to provide recommendations to the end user, receiving a modification to the current preference model, generating a modified preference model with the modification, and applying the modified preference model to generate recommendations for the end user that are more relevant than the recommendations provided using the current preference model.
Abstract: According to exemplary embodiments, the present invention provides a method for presenting content information to a user. The method includes identifying by a processor content associated with an influential content consumer. The method also includes providing the content information of the content associated with the influential content consumer for display to the user. A system for presenting content information to a user is provided. The system includes a social network database and an available content index comprising data concerning available content. The system also includes a recommendation engine adapted to access the social network database and identify an influential content consumer. The recommendation engine is further adapted to apply content data associated with the influential content consumer to the available content index to provide the content information to the user. A non-transitory computer readable medium having recorded thereon a program is provided.
Type:
Application
Filed:
October 1, 2012
Publication date:
April 4, 2013
Applicant:
Sidebar, Inc.
Inventors:
Richard Skelton, Jason Rosenthal, Eric Wilson, Patrick Kennedy, Stephanie L. Grossman
Abstract: Systems, methods, and media for a television listing user interface for set top boxes, computers, tablets, mobile phones, and other devices. Exemplary methods may include ranking broadcast content according to trend data and a program guide that includes a visual representation of the ranked broadcast content, which may be hierarchically ranked according to the trend data.
Abstract: A system and method for adjusting the frequency of content delivery to a communication device based on the frequency of a user's interaction with the communication device. A method of scheduling and displaying content on a communication device includes collecting data representing a user's interaction with the communication device, transmitting the data from the communication device to a scheduler, assigning the communication device to a use category, the use category assigned based on the number of interactions the user has with the communication device during a period of time, transmitting a signal to the scheduler upon an interaction with the communication device, incrementing a counter at the remote scheduler upon receiving the signal, and periodically displaying content on the communication device based on the use category and the counter.
Abstract: A system and method for delivering surveys to mobile device users. Surveys are delivered to mobile device users based on the user's participation in a survey group. The surveys may be delivered with media such as a song, movie, television, or other video or audio clip asking the user to rate or provide feedback on the media. A method of providing a survey to communication devices includes receiving, at a server, a survey from a survey provider, defining, at the server, a survey group from a group of users, the survey group being defined by a topic in the survey, transmitting the survey from the server to a plurality of communication devices corresponding to the survey group, displaying the survey on each of the plurality of communication devices corresponding to the survey group, and transmitting survey responses from at least one of the plurality of communication devices to the server.