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- This invention relates generally to systems for assisting users to navigate media item catalogs with the ultimate goal of building mediasets and/or discover media items. More specifically, the present invention pertains to computer software methods and products to enable users to interactively browse through an electronic catalog by leveraging media item association metrics.
- New technologies combining digital media item players with dedicated software, together with new media distribution channels through networks are quickly changing the way people organize and play media items.
- users are faced with a huge volume of available choices that clearly overwhelm them when choosing what item to play in a certain moment.
- our invention is applicable to any kind of media item that can be grouped by users forming mediasets.
- these mediasets could be playlists. Users put music together in playlists to overcome the problem of being overwhelmed when choosing a song from a large collection, or just to enjoy a set of songs in particular situations. For example, one might be interested in having a playlist for running, another for cooking, etc.
- This invention addresses the problem of helping users navigate through a media item catalog based on a small set of selected media items.
- This set of selected media items can be seen as an initial set to build a starting point for the navigation experience.
- One kind of approach is about using human expertise to classify the media items and then use these classifications to infer recommendations to users based on an input mediaset. For instance, if in the input mediaset the item x appears and x belongs to the same classification as y, then a system could recommend item y based on the fact that both items are classified in a similar cluster.
- this approach requires an incredibly huge amount of human work and expertise.
- Another approach is to analyze the data of the items (audio signal for songs, video signal for video, etc) and then try to match users preferences with the extracted analysis. This class of approaches is yet to be shown effective from a technical point of view.
- Hosken (U.S. Pat. No. 6,438,579) describes a system and method for recommending media items responsive to query media items based on the explicit and implicit user characterizations of the content of the media items.
- Dunning, et. al. (U.S. Patent Application Pubs 2002/0082901 and 2003/0229537) disclose a system and method for discovering relationships between media items based on explicit and implicit user associations between said items. The need remains for improved methods and systems to assist users in navigating through media item catalogs with the ultimate goal of helping them build mediasets and/or discover media items that they will enjoy.
- the invention comprises a system, preferably implemented in computer software, for guiding users along an interactive, personalized path through a media item catalog beginning from an initial selection by the user of one or more media items.
- media items includes, by way of example and not limitation, music tracks or songs, albums, movies, music videos, other video “clips,” news articles, other media, including text, graphics, multi-media presentations, etc.
- the media items themselves i.e. the actual content, is not part of the present system. Rather, each media item is identified by meta data.
- the system requires a knowledge base consisting of a collection of mediasets.
- Mediasets are sets of media items that are naturally grouped by users.
- the mediasets of the knowledge base define metrics among items. Such metrics indicate how correlated media items are in the mediasets of the knowledge base.
- For each media item of the initial set the system generates one list of media items for each metric of the system.
- the media items of these lists are the ones with highest metrics with respect to the associated media item.
- the user can then select any of the media items of the proposed lists, and the selected list becomes part of the initial set of media items, resulting in newly generated lists being proposed to the user.
- the process is interactive. Advantages of such interactivity include easier and more effective browsing through the catalog and/or building a new appropriate mediaset.
- FIG. 1 is a representation in matrix form of a metric describing the similarity values between collections of media items.
- FIG. 2 illustrates a weighted graph representation for the associations within a collection of media items. Each edge between two media items is annotated with a weight representing the value of a selected metric for the similarity between the media items.
- FIG. 3 is simplified, conceptual diagram illustrating the generation of navigation lists from an input set of media items based on knowledge base metrics.
- FIG. 4 is a simplified, conceptual diagram of a knowledge base comprising a plurality of mediasets useful to derive metric values.
- FIG. 5 is a flow diagram illustrating an interactive method for guiding users through a media item catalog.
- the described features, structures, or characteristics may be combined in any suitable manner in one or more embodiments.
- the methodologies of the present invention are advantageously carried out using one or more digital processors, for example the types of microprocessors that are commonly found in servers, PC's, laptops, PDA's and all manner of desktop or portable electronic appliances.
- the system comprises a knowledge base which is a collection of mediasets.
- a mediaset is a list of media items that a user has grouped together.
- a media item can be of different nature, e.g. a song, a book, a newspaper, a movie, a piece of a radio program, etc. If a mediaset is composed of the same type of media items it is called a homogeneous mediaset, otherwise it is called a heterogeneous mediaset.
- a mediaset can be ordered or unordered. An ordered mediaset implies a certain order with respect to the sequence in which the items are used 1 by the user. 1 Depending on the nature of the item, it will be played, viewed, read, etc.
- mediasets are based on the assumption that users group media items together following some logic or reasoning. For example, in the music domain, a user may be selecting a set of songs for driving, hence that is a homogeneous mediaset of songs. In this invention, we also consider other kinds of media items such as books, movies, newspapers, and so on. For example, if we consider books, a user may have a list of books for the summer, a list of books for work, and another list of books for the weekends. A user may be interested in expressing a heterogeneous mediaset with a mix of books and music, expressing the music that goes well with certain books.
- a set of media items is not considered the same as a mediaset. The difference is mainly about the intention of the user in grouping the items together. In the case of a mediaset the user is expressing that the items in the mediaset go well, in some sense, with his personal preferences. On the other hand, a set of media items does not express necessarily the preferences of a user. We use the term set of media items to refer to the input of the system of the invention as well as to the output of the system.
- a metric M between a pair of media items i and j for a given knowledge base k expresses some degree of relation between i and j with respect to k.
- a metric may be expressed as a distance, where smaller distance values represent stronger association values, or as a similarity, where larger similarity values represent stronger association values.
- the most immediate metric is the co-concurrency (i, j) that indicates how many times item i and item j appear together in any of the mediasets of k.
- the metric pre-concurrency (i, j) indicates how many times item i and item j appear together but i before j in any of the mediasets of k.
- the metric post-concurrency indicates how many times item i and item j appear together but i after j in any of the mediasets of k.
- the previous defined metrics can also be considered considering immediate sequence of i and j. So, the system might be considering co/pre/post-concurrencies metrics but only if items i and j are consecutive in the mediasets (only available if the mediasets are ordered). Other metrics can be considered and also new ones can be defined by combining the previous ones.
- a matrix representation of metric M, ( FIG. 1 ) for a given knowledge base K can be defined as a bidimensional matrix ( 100 ) where the element M(i, j) ( 106 ) is the value of the metric between the media item i ( 102 ) and media item j ( 104 ).
- a graph representation for a given knowledge base k, ( FIG. 2 ) is a graph ( 200 ) where nodes represent media items ( 202 , 204 ), and edges ( 206 , 208 ) are between pairs of media items. Pairs of media items i, j are linked by labeled directed edges, where the label indicates the value of the similarity or distance metric M(i,j) for the edge with head media item i and tail media item j.
- a pre-processing step is carried out to analyze the contents of an existing knowledge base. This can be done in advance of receiving any input items.
- the knowledge base comprises an existing collection of mediasets. This is illustrated in FIG. 4 , which shows a simplified conceptual illustration of a knowledge base 400 .
- the knowledge base 400 includes a collection of mediasets, delineated by rectangles [or ovals] and numbered 1 through 7 .
- Each mediaset comprises at least two media items. For example, mediaset 2 has three items, while mediaset 7 has four items. The presence of media items within a given mediaset creates an association among them.
- the present invention requires a knowledge base of mediasets, or at least access to metrics derived from a knowledge base.
- a knowledge base can be analyzed based on any selected metric. In general, for present purposes, such metrics reflect and indeed quantify some association between pairs of media items in a given knowledge base.
- the analysis process is described by way of example using the co-concurrency metric mentioned earlier.
- a similar process can be used for other metrics. Referring still to FIG. 4 , for each item in a mediaset (in the knowledge base), the process identifies every other item in the same mediaset, thereby defining all of the pairs of items in that mediaset. For example, in FIG. 4 , one pair in mediaset 1 is the pair M( 1,1 )+M( 1,3 ). Three pairs are defined that include M( 1,1 ). This process is repeated for every mediaset in the knowledge base, thus every pair of items that appears in any mediaset throughout the knowledge base is defined.
- a co-concurrency metric is incremented for each additional occurrence of the same pair of items in the same knowledge base. For example, if a pair of media items, say the song “Uptown Girl” by Billy Joel and “Halleteurah” by Jeff Buckley, appear together in 42 different mediasets in the knowledge base (not necessarily adjacent one another), then the co-concurrency metric might be 42 (or some other figure depending on the scaling selected, normalization, etc. In some embodiments, this figure or co-concurrency “weight” may be normalized to a number between zero and one.)
- matrix 100 illustrates a useful method for storing the metric values or weights for any particular metric.
- individual media items in the knowledge base say m 1 , m 2 , m 3 . . . m k are assigned corresponding rows and columns in the matrix.
- the selected metric weight for every pair of items is entered at row, column location x,y corresponding to the two media items defining the pair.
- the values are normalized to a range of zero to one, but other normalization is merely a design choice.
- the user selects an initial set of items from the catalog ( 301 ). For each of the items in this initial set ( 302 , 303 ), the system generates ( 307 , 308 ) one list for each metric. Hence, for an initial set ( 301 ) of n items and a system with m metrics, the system generates n*m lists.
- the ordered list with respect to item i and metric M ( 304 ) contains the k items ( 305 , 306 , 307 ) with the highest metric M with respect to item i.
- the system displays or otherwise communicates the generated lists to the user, and from these the user can select any item.
- FIG. 5 a flow diagram illustrates one example of this process.
- the software system receives or reads setup parameters 502 . These may pertain to the selection of metrics, user login, length of lists, time limits, or other operational parameters.
- the system or the user selects a catalog for browsing 504 .
- the system also obtains access to a collection of metrics derived from an associated knowledge base.
- the user selects one or more media items from the catalog 506 to form an initial input mediaset.
- the system receives that input, and then generates in 508 an initial output list of media items we call a navigation list, preferably in the manner described above with reference to FIG. 3 .
- the system receives further feedback from the user, which may be an instruction to exit from the process 510 , in which case it may terminate 511 . (The exit may occur at any time; this flowchart is merely illustrative.)
- the user continues, he makes a selection 514 of one or more of the media items on the navigation list to add or delete.
- the system then adds (or deletes) the user selection(s) to the initial input mediaset 516 , thus forming a new input set.
- New navigational lists are then generated based on the new input set 518 .
- the new navigation lists are communicated to the user, 520 .
- the process loops as indicated at 522 .
- the user is interactively guided through the catalog as he or she continues to add new items.
- the user may edit the navigation set at any moment by deleting items from, or adding items to, the generated lists. Every time the users interacts with the navigation set, its associated lists are updated as the system reacts to each edit of the navigation set.
- the previously described process has various advantageous uses, including assisting users to (a) navigate through a media item catalog, or (b) create new mediasets in a convenient way. A new mediaset can be saved by storing the current input set, or any navigation list, at any time during the interaction.
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- This application is a continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11/349,370, filed on Feb. 6, 2006, which claims priority from U.S. Provisional Application No. 60/649,945 filed Feb. 4, 2005, both of which are incorporated herein by this reference as though fully set forth.
- ©2005-2006 MusicStrands, Inc. A portion of the disclosure of this patent document contains material that is subject to copyright protection. The copyright owner has no objection to the facsimile reproduction by anyone of the patent document or the patent disclosure, as it appears in the Patent and Trademark Office patent file or records, but otherwise reserves all copyright rights whatsoever. 37 CFR §1.71(d).
- This invention relates generally to systems for assisting users to navigate media item catalogs with the ultimate goal of building mediasets and/or discover media items. More specifically, the present invention pertains to computer software methods and products to enable users to interactively browse through an electronic catalog by leveraging media item association metrics.
- New technologies combining digital media item players with dedicated software, together with new media distribution channels through networks are quickly changing the way people organize and play media items. As a direct consequence of such evolution in the media industry, users are faced with a huge volume of available choices that clearly overwhelm them when choosing what item to play in a certain moment.
- This overwhelming effect can be easily detected in the music arena, where people are faced with the problem of selecting music from very large collections of songs. However, in the future, we might detect similar effects in other domains like music videos, movies, news, etc.
- In general, our invention is applicable to any kind of media item that can be grouped by users forming mediasets. For example, in the music domain, these mediasets could be playlists. Users put music together in playlists to overcome the problem of being overwhelmed when choosing a song from a large collection, or just to enjoy a set of songs in particular situations. For example, one might be interested in having a playlist for running, another for cooking, etc.
- This invention addresses the problem of helping users navigate through a media item catalog based on a small set of selected media items. This set of selected media items can be seen as an initial set to build a starting point for the navigation experience.
- Different approaches can be considered when building systems to help users navigate a media item catalog. The most commonly used is the keyword based search where the user specifies a set of keywords and the system retrieves the set of media items which contain the keywords in their descriptors. Another approach is to consider a search based on metadata. For example in the music arena, a user might be asking to retrieve rock songs from the 90s.
- However, many times users do not know what they are looking for. They want to explore the catalog and find interesting items. This observation is especially relevant for media item catalogs with a clear entertainment focus.
- Various approaches can be adopted to personalized recommendations. One kind of approach is about using human expertise to classify the media items and then use these classifications to infer recommendations to users based on an input mediaset. For instance, if in the input mediaset the item x appears and x belongs to the same classification as y, then a system could recommend item y based on the fact that both items are classified in a similar cluster. However, this approach requires an incredibly huge amount of human work and expertise. Another approach is to analyze the data of the items (audio signal for songs, video signal for video, etc) and then try to match users preferences with the extracted analysis. This class of approaches is yet to be shown effective from a technical point of view.
- Hosken (U.S. Pat. No. 6,438,579) describes a system and method for recommending media items responsive to query media items based on the explicit and implicit user characterizations of the content of the media items. Dunning, et. al. (U.S. Patent Application Pubs 2002/0082901 and 2003/0229537) disclose a system and method for discovering relationships between media items based on explicit and implicit user associations between said items. The need remains for improved methods and systems to assist users in navigating through media item catalogs with the ultimate goal of helping them build mediasets and/or discover media items that they will enjoy.
- In one embodiment the invention comprises a system, preferably implemented in computer software, for guiding users along an interactive, personalized path through a media item catalog beginning from an initial selection by the user of one or more media items. As explained below, “media items” as used herein includes, by way of example and not limitation, music tracks or songs, albums, movies, music videos, other video “clips,” news articles, other media, including text, graphics, multi-media presentations, etc. Preferably, the media items themselves, i.e. the actual content, is not part of the present system. Rather, each media item is identified by meta data.
- The system requires a knowledge base consisting of a collection of mediasets. Mediasets are sets of media items that are naturally grouped by users. The mediasets of the knowledge base define metrics among items. Such metrics indicate how correlated media items are in the mediasets of the knowledge base. For each media item of the initial set, the system generates one list of media items for each metric of the system. The media items of these lists are the ones with highest metrics with respect to the associated media item. The user can then select any of the media items of the proposed lists, and the selected list becomes part of the initial set of media items, resulting in newly generated lists being proposed to the user. The process is interactive. Advantages of such interactivity include easier and more effective browsing through the catalog and/or building a new appropriate mediaset.
- Additional aspects and advantages will be apparent from the following detailed description of preferred embodiments, which proceeds with reference to the accompanying drawings.
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FIG. 1 is a representation in matrix form of a metric describing the similarity values between collections of media items. -
FIG. 2 illustrates a weighted graph representation for the associations within a collection of media items. Each edge between two media items is annotated with a weight representing the value of a selected metric for the similarity between the media items. -
FIG. 3 is simplified, conceptual diagram illustrating the generation of navigation lists from an input set of media items based on knowledge base metrics. -
FIG. 4 is a simplified, conceptual diagram of a knowledge base comprising a plurality of mediasets useful to derive metric values. -
FIG. 5 is a flow diagram illustrating an interactive method for guiding users through a media item catalog. - Reference is now made to the figures in which like reference numerals refer to like elements. For clarity, the first digit of a reference numeral indicates the figure number in which the corresponding element is first used.
- In the following description, certain specific details of programming, software modules, user selections, network transactions, database queries, database structures, etc. are omitted to avoid obscuring the invention. Those of ordinary skill in computer sciences will comprehend many ways to implement the invention in various embodiments, the details of which can be determined using known technologies.
- Furthermore, the described features, structures, or characteristics may be combined in any suitable manner in one or more embodiments. In general, the methodologies of the present invention are advantageously carried out using one or more digital processors, for example the types of microprocessors that are commonly found in servers, PC's, laptops, PDA's and all manner of desktop or portable electronic appliances.
- The system comprises a knowledge base which is a collection of mediasets. A mediaset is a list of media items that a user has grouped together. A media item can be of different nature, e.g. a song, a book, a newspaper, a movie, a piece of a radio program, etc. If a mediaset is composed of the same type of media items it is called a homogeneous mediaset, otherwise it is called a heterogeneous mediaset. A mediaset can be ordered or unordered. An ordered mediaset implies a certain order with respect to the sequence in which the items are used1 by the user. 1 Depending on the nature of the item, it will be played, viewed, read, etc.
- In general, mediasets are based on the assumption that users group media items together following some logic or reasoning. For example, in the music domain, a user may be selecting a set of songs for driving, hence that is a homogeneous mediaset of songs. In this invention, we also consider other kinds of media items such as books, movies, newspapers, and so on. For example, if we consider books, a user may have a list of books for the summer, a list of books for work, and another list of books for the weekends. A user may be interested in expressing a heterogeneous mediaset with a mix of books and music, expressing the music that goes well with certain books.
- A set of media items is not considered the same as a mediaset. The difference is mainly about the intention of the user in grouping the items together. In the case of a mediaset the user is expressing that the items in the mediaset go well, in some sense, with his personal preferences. On the other hand, a set of media items does not express necessarily the preferences of a user. We use the term set of media items to refer to the input of the system of the invention as well as to the output of the system.
- A metric M between a pair of media items i and j for a given knowledge base k expresses some degree of relation between i and j with respect to k. A metric may be expressed as a distance, where smaller distance values represent stronger association values, or as a similarity, where larger similarity values represent stronger association values. The most immediate metric is the co-concurrency (i, j) that indicates how many times item i and item j appear together in any of the mediasets of k. The metric pre-concurrency (i, j) indicates how many times item i and item j appear together but i before j in any of the mediasets of k. The metric post-concurrency (i, j) indicates how many times item i and item j appear together but i after j in any of the mediasets of k. The previous defined metrics can also be considered considering immediate sequence of i and j. So, the system might be considering co/pre/post-concurrencies metrics but only if items i and j are consecutive in the mediasets (only available if the mediasets are ordered). Other metrics can be considered and also new ones can be defined by combining the previous ones.
- A metric may be computed based on any of the above metrics and applying transitivity. For instance, consider co-concurrency between item i and j, co(i,j), and between j and k, co(j,k), and consider that co(i,k)=0. We could create another metric to include transitivity, for example d(i,k)=1/co(i,j)+1/co(j,k). These type of transitivity metrics may be efficiently computed using standard branch and bound search algorithms.
- A matrix representation of metric M, (
FIG. 1 ) for a given knowledge base K can be defined as a bidimensional matrix (100) where the element M(i, j) (106) is the value of the metric between the media item i (102) and media item j (104). - A graph representation for a given knowledge base k, (
FIG. 2 ) is a graph (200) where nodes represent media items (202, 204), and edges (206, 208) are between pairs of media items. Pairs of media items i, j are linked by labeled directed edges, where the label indicates the value of the similarity or distance metric M(i,j) for the edge with head media item i and tail media item j. - As a preliminary matter, in a presently preferred embodiment, a pre-processing step is carried out to analyze the contents of an existing knowledge base. This can be done in advance of receiving any input items. As noted above, the knowledge base comprises an existing collection of mediasets. This is illustrated in
FIG. 4 , which shows a simplified conceptual illustration of aknowledge base 400. InFIG. 4 , theknowledge base 400 includes a collection of mediasets, delineated by rectangles [or ovals] and numbered 1 through 7. Each mediaset comprises at least two media items. For example,mediaset 2 has three items, whilemediaset 7 has four items. The presence of media items within a given mediaset creates an association among them. - The present invention requires a knowledge base of mediasets, or at least access to metrics derived from a knowledge base. A knowledge base can be analyzed based on any selected metric. In general, for present purposes, such metrics reflect and indeed quantify some association between pairs of media items in a given knowledge base. The analysis process is described by way of example using the co-concurrency metric mentioned earlier. A similar process can be used for other metrics. Referring still to
FIG. 4 , for each item in a mediaset (in the knowledge base), the process identifies every other item in the same mediaset, thereby defining all of the pairs of items in that mediaset. For example, inFIG. 4 , one pair inmediaset 1 is the pair M(1,1)+M(1,3). Three pairs are defined that include M(1,1). This process is repeated for every mediaset in the knowledge base, thus every pair of items that appears in any mediaset throughout the knowledge base is defined. - Next, for each pair of media items, a co-concurrency metric is incremented for each additional occurrence of the same pair of items in the same knowledge base. For example, if a pair of media items, say the song “Uptown Girl” by Billy Joel and “Hallelujah” by Jeff Buckley, appear together in 42 different mediasets in the knowledge base (not necessarily adjacent one another), then the co-concurrency metric might be 42 (or some other figure depending on the scaling selected, normalization, etc. In some embodiments, this figure or co-concurrency “weight” may be normalized to a number between zero and one.)
- Referring now to
FIG. 1 ,matrix 100 illustrates a useful method for storing the metric values or weights for any particular metric. Here, individual media items in the knowledge base, say m1, m2, m3 . . . mk are assigned corresponding rows and columns in the matrix. In the matrix, the selected metric weight for every pair of items is entered at row, column location x,y corresponding to the two media items defining the pair. InFIG. 1 , the values are normalized to a range of zero to one, but other normalization is merely a design choice. - Referring now to
FIG. 3 , the user selects an initial set of items from the catalog (301). For each of the items in this initial set (302, 303), the system generates (307, 308) one list for each metric. Hence, for an initial set (301) of n items and a system with m metrics, the system generates n*m lists. The ordered list with respect to item i and metric M (304) contains the k items (305, 306, 307) with the highest metric M with respect to item i. - The system displays or otherwise communicates the generated lists to the user, and from these the user can select any item. Referring now to
FIG. 5 , a flow diagram illustrates one example of this process. Initially, the software system receives or readssetup parameters 502. These may pertain to the selection of metrics, user login, length of lists, time limits, or other operational parameters. Then the system or the user selects a catalog forbrowsing 504. The system also obtains access to a collection of metrics derived from an associated knowledge base. Next, as noted, the user selects one or more media items from thecatalog 506 to form an initial input mediaset. The system receives that input, and then generates in 508 an initial output list of media items we call a navigation list, preferably in the manner described above with reference toFIG. 3 . - Continuing with reference to
FIG. 5 , the system receives further feedback from the user, which may be an instruction to exit from theprocess 510, in which case it may terminate 511. (The exit may occur at any time; this flowchart is merely illustrative.) If the user continues, he makes aselection 514 of one or more of the media items on the navigation list to add or delete. The system then adds (or deletes) the user selection(s) to theinitial input mediaset 516, thus forming a new input set. New navigational lists are then generated based on thenew input set 518. The new navigation lists are communicated to the user, 520. The process loops as indicated at 522. - In this way, the user is interactively guided through the catalog as he or she continues to add new items. The user may edit the navigation set at any moment by deleting items from, or adding items to, the generated lists. Every time the users interacts with the navigation set, its associated lists are updated as the system reacts to each edit of the navigation set. The previously described process has various advantageous uses, including assisting users to (a) navigate through a media item catalog, or (b) create new mediasets in a convenient way. A new mediaset can be saved by storing the current input set, or any navigation list, at any time during the interaction.
- Many modifications and other embodiments of the invention will come to mind to one skilled in the art to which this invention pertains having the benefit of the teachings presented in the foregoing descriptions and the associated drawings. Therefore, it is to be understood that the invention is not to be limited to the specific embodiments disclosed and that modifications and other embodiments are intended to be included within the scope of the appended claims.
- For example, one of ordinary skill in the art will understand that, while the above system and methods were described as embodied in a media item catalog system, it should be understood that the inventive system could be used in any system that implements a catalog for items that can be grouped by users following some selected criteria. Although specific terms are employed herein, there are used in a generic and descriptive sense only and not for purposes of limitation.
- It will further be apparent to those having skill in the art that many changes may be made to the details of the above-described embodiments without departing from the underlying principles of the invention. The scope of the present invention should, therefore, be determined only by the following claims.
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