Using Content Structure to Socially Connect Users

Patent №

US 9,514,101

Granted

2016-12-06

Filed 2014

Owner

GOOGLE INC.

AI components

3

nlp · kr · planning

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

14286363

The structure of a digital content item is used to socially connect users consuming the digital content item. The structured representation of the digital content item is determined. This structured representation is analyzed to identify key events within the digital content item. A user's current location within the digital content item is identified. Social communications of the user are filtered responsive to the user's current location and the identified key events within the digital content item. In this way, the user may peruse social media without inadvertently reading communications that give away (e.g., spoil) key events such as important plot points.

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AI classification

Knowledge representation0.77
Natural language0.69
Planning0.66
Speech0.03
Machine learning0.02
AI hardware0.00
Evolutionary computation0.00
Vision0.00

Ownership

GOOGLE INC.

assignment · 330160514

Assignors

MORTON, MICHAEL SALOMON, FALLER, JEREMY

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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