Abstract:
Systems and methods are provided for notifying a user regarding early consumption of a popular content item. In one or more aspects, a system includes an identification component configured to identify a user that was among a first X percentage of users to access a content item that is ranked as a popular content item based in part on total number of times the content item was previously accessed, a notification generation component configured to generate a notification identifying the user as being among the first X percentage of users to access the popular content item, and a notification posting component configured to send the notification to a device or an account of the user.
Abstract:
In a method and system for ranking suggested applications, a set of applications providing a functionality to be offered to a user of a user device is determined, and a login state for the user for each of the set of applications is identified. A ranking of the set of applications based on each of the corresponding login states is determined, and a list of recommended applications for the functionality in view of the ranking is determined. The list of recommended applications is the provided to the user via the user device.
Abstract:
Recommending channels is disclosed. A method for recommending a channel includes identifying multiple component channels of a content platform. The method further includes generating a user interest score for the user for each of the component channels. The method further includes defining a composite channel that includes a subset of the component channels. The method further includes providing a recommendation to the user to subscribe to the composite channel.
Abstract:
Content hosting architectures and/or social networking architectures can be improved by, e.g., unifying the two architectures to some extent. Services or features from both can be leveraged to provide an ecosystem that can be superior or preferred by users or consumers. For example, premium content that typically must be purchased via a transaction with the content hosting service can be accessed by certain users that have not purchased the premium content provided those users have a social relationship with one that has purchased the premium content, which can be determined based on data managed by the social networking service.
Abstract:
Content hosting architectures and/or social networking architectures can be improved by, e.g., unifying the two architectures to some extent. Services or features from both can be leveraged to provide an ecosystem that can be superior or preferred by users or consumers. For example, premium content that typically must be purchased via a transaction with the content hosting service can be accessed by certain users that have not purchased the premium content provided those users have a social relationship with one that has purchased the premium content, which can be determined based on data managed by the social networking service.
Abstract:
A system includes an ingestion component configured to receive a request from an entity for content related to a content item and a user identity. The request has a content identifier representative of the content item and a token. A request processing component of the system is configured to access a database associated with the system and identify the content item and the user identity using the content identifier and the token, wherein the database has information associating the token with the user identity and associating the content identifier with the content item. In response to identification of the content item and the user identity, the request processing component directs a recommendation engine associated with the system to identify the content related to the content item and the user identity. Information identifying the content related to the content item and the user identity is then transmitted back to the entity.
Abstract:
In accordance with some embodiments, methods for presenting advertisements during video presentation are provided, the methods comprising: receiving a media content item to be presented, wherein the media content item comprises video content that includes audio data to be presented during presentation of the video data; determining that a video presentation application is in a presentation mode that inhibits video data; receiving an advertisement to be presented during presentation of the media content item; causing the media content item to be presented in the presentation mode; causing the advertisement to be presented during presentation of the media content; detecting a user action indicative of user attention to at least a portion of the presented advertisement; and performing a further action in response to detecting the user action, which causes information other than the advertisement to be presented by the user interface.
Abstract:
Mechanisms for presenting content items and performing actions with respect to content items are disclosed. A content sharing platform receives a first content item from a first user of a user device and identifies a set of actions performed by the first user on the first user device. Each action from the set of actions is associated with a corresponding additional content item from set of additional content items and each additional content item from the set of additional content items is associated with a corresponding portion of the first content item. The content sharing platform provides data indicative of the set of content items to a second user device of a second user. The content sharing platform causes one or more actions from the set of actions to be performed in a GUI on the second user device.
Abstract:
A method for delivering and installing applications on media devices includes receiving a video file includes a video at a processor remote from the media devices; associating, at the processor, an in-video programming element with the video; receiving application access data for a mobile application; associating the application access data with the in-video programming element; receiving a request for displaying the on a first media device; providing the video and the in-video programming element to the first media device; receiving a signal to install the mobile application; and executing a mobile media device application installation process to install the mobile application.
Abstract:
In some implementations, a method includes identifying one or more face regions of an image, the face regions including pixels that depict at least a portion of one or more faces of persons. The face regions are identified based on identifying facial landmarks of the faces. The method determines an associated face mask for each of the faces based on the face regions, where each face mask indicates which pixels in the image depict the corresponding face. Face pixels can be selected for processing by applying the face masks, and image pixels outside the faces can be selected by inversely applying the face masks. The selected pixels can be provided to a processing operation for adjustment of the selected pixels.