公开(公告)号：US20210263984A1

公开(公告)日：2021-08-26

申请号：US17239008

申请日：2021-04-23

Applicant: Rovi Guides, Inc.

Inventor： Daren Gill ,  Abubakkar Siddiq ,  Ahmed Nizam Mohaideen P. ,  China Karnati ,  Sashikumar Venkataraman ,  Sankar Ardhanari

IPC: G06F16/9535 ,  G06F16/435 ,  G06Q30/02 ,  G06Q50/00 ,  H04M1/72412 ,  H04M1/72448 ,  H04M1/72469 ,  G06F3/0481 ,  G06F3/0482 ,  G06N5/04 ,  G06Q30/00

Abstract: Methods and systems are described herein to recommend media assets to a user based on user location. A media guidance application may identify, using control circuitry, a user location. The media guidance application may generate a list of a plurality of media assets that match a user profile. The media guidance application may determine whether subject matter of a first media asset of the plurality of media assets is inconsistent with the user location. The media guidance application may remove the first media asset from the list in response to determining that the subject matter of the first media asset is inconsistent with the user location.

公开(公告)号：US20210152775A1

公开(公告)日：2021-05-20

申请号：US17107826

申请日：2020-11-30

Applicant: Rovi Guides, Inc.

Inventor： Milan Patel ,  Abubakkar Siddiq ,  Ajay Kumar Gupta ,  Sai Rahul Reddy Pulikunta ,  Sashikumar Venkataraman

IPC: H04N5/783 ,  G11B27/00

Abstract: In some aspects, control circuitry receives and stores a user-specified time duration to associate with a skip-forward command. When the user later issues a skip-forward command to advance playback of a media asset to a desired location, the control circuitry retrieves the stored time duration, and determines an expected overshoot value associated with the skip-forward command. The control circuitry then compensates for the expected overshoot by calculating a new location in the media asset based on both the retrieved time duration and expected overshoot value. Upon advancing to the new location, the media asset is played back in a fast-forward mode, e.g., at a speed higher than normal speed.

公开(公告)号：US10855949B2

公开(公告)日：2020-12-01

申请号：US16193911

申请日：2018-11-16

Applicant: Rovi Guides, Inc.

Inventor： Milan Patel ,  Abubakkar Siddiq ,  Ajay Kumar Gupta ,  Sai Rahul Reddy Pulikunta ,  Sashikumar Venkataraman

IPC: H04N5/783 ,  G11B27/00

Abstract: In some aspects, control circuitry receives and stores a user-specified time duration to associate with a skip-forward command. When the user later issues a skip-forward command to advance playback of a media asset to a desired location, the control circuitry retrieves the stored time duration, and determines an expected overshoot value associated with the skip-forward command. The control circuitry then compensates for the expected overshoot by calculating a new location in the media asset based on both the retrieved time duration and expected overshoot value. Upon advancing to the new location, the media asset is played back in a fast-forward mode, e.g., at a speed higher than normal speed.

公开(公告)号：US10672390B2

公开(公告)日：2020-06-02

申请号：US14578843

申请日：2014-12-22

Applicant: Rovi Guides, Inc.

Inventor： Abubakkar Siddiq ,  Sashikumar Venkataraman

IPC: G10L15/18 ,  H04N21/422 ,  H04N21/482

Abstract: The systems and methods disclosed herein combine a plurality of interpretations of a voice-based input. The systems and methods may receive the voice-based input, process it using one or more automatic speech recognition modules to obtain a plurality of interpretations, and identify an entity set for each of the plurality of interpretations. The systems and methods may further generate a combined interpretation based on a first interpretation and second interpretation selected form the plurality of interpretations and assign a semantic score to the combined interpretation based on the entity sets of the first and second interpretation.

公开(公告)号：US10540387B2

公开(公告)日：2020-01-21

申请号：US15852589

申请日：2017-12-22

Applicant: Rovi Guides, Inc.

Inventor： Sashikumar Venkataraman ,  Mangesh Pujari ,  Ahmed Nizam Mohaideen P

IPC: G06F16/20 ,  G06F16/48

Abstract: Systems and methods for determining whether an ambiguous statement applies to a first query or second query. In some aspects, the system includes control circuitry that receives a first search query from a user. The control circuitry determines a syntactic mapping and contextual mapping of the first query. The control circuitry receives a second search query following the first search query. The control circuitry merges the queries. The control circuitry determines whether syntactic mappings for the second query and the portion of the merged query corresponding to the second query are equivalent. In response to determining that the second syntactic mapping and the portion of the third syntactic mapping are equivalent, the control circuitry selects a contextual mapping of the second or merged query based on user contextual information. The control circuitry determines a media asset from the media assets that is related to the first and second queries.

公开(公告)号：US20190266166A1

公开(公告)日：2019-08-29

申请号：US16400556

申请日：2019-05-01

Applicant: Rovi Guides, Inc.

Inventor： Sashikumar Venkataraman ,  Manik Malhotra ,  Ahmed Nizam Mohaideen P

IPC: G06F16/2457 ,  G06F16/332 ,  G06F16/248 ,  H04N21/8405 ,  G06F17/21 ,  G10L15/26 ,  H04N21/422 ,  H04N21/482 ,  G06F17/24

Abstract: Systems and methods provide a media guidance application that recognizes a plurality of natural language search queries for identifying a set of search results. For example, a user may want to determine when the Yankees are playing their next baseball game. The user may structure their query in multiple ways, such as, “When are the Yankees playing?” “What time is the Yankees game?” “When is the next Yankees baseball game?” The user would expect the same result, a description of when the Yankees are playing, regardless of how the query is structured. The systems and methods enable a user to use a plurality of search queries when searching for items or information to get desired results.

公开(公告)号：US20190205349A1

公开(公告)日：2019-07-04

申请号：US16233311

申请日：2018-12-27

Applicant: Rovi Guides, Inc.

Inventor： Manik Malhotra ,  Ahmed Nizam Mohaideen P ,  Sashikumar Venkataraman

IPC: G06F16/9535 ,  G06F16/2455 ,  G06F16/2457

CPC classification number: G06F16/9535 ,  G06F16/2455 ,  G06F16/24578

Abstract: Methods and systems for identifying a meaning of an ambiguous term in a natural language query. The media guidance application isolates first and second terms from a query received from a user and identifies, in a knowledge graph, first and second pluralities of candidate components associated with the first and second terms. The first and second terms each having multiple candidate components indicates the first and second terms have ambiguous meanings. The media guidance application matches each candidate component of the first and second pluralities of candidate components to form a plurality of pairs and determines strength of association for each pair in the plurality of pairs. The media guidance application filters the plurality of pairs by strength of association for each pair and determines a plurality of possible meanings based on the filtered plurality of pairs. The media guidance application selects a meaning from the plurality of possible meanings.

公开(公告)号：US20190197012A1

公开(公告)日：2019-06-27

申请号：US15854167

申请日：2017-12-26

Applicant: Rovi Guides, Inc.

Inventor： Sankar Ardhanari ,  Sai Rahul Reddy Pulikunta ,  Sashikumar Venkataraman ,  Abubakkar Siddiq ,  Ganesh Ramamoorthy

IPC: G06F15/18 ,  G06K9/62 ,  H04N21/482 ,  G06F17/27

CPC classification number: G06N20/00 ,  G06F17/2705 ,  G06K9/6253 ,  G06K9/6256 ,  G06K9/6267 ,  H04N21/4826

Abstract: Methods and systems are disclosed herein for accurately training a machine learning model with a reduced training data set. A large number of data records may be parsed. Each record may be reduced to a set of symbols representing the composition of each record. A user may assign a classification to each symbol within each record. Records with identical arrangements and classifications of symbols may be grouped together, and a representative sample of data records from each group may be fed into the model as the reduced training data set.

公开(公告)号：US20190155901A1

公开(公告)日：2019-05-23

申请号：US16158247

申请日：2018-10-11

Applicant: Rovi Guides, Inc.

Inventor： Sashikumar Venkataraman ,  Ahmed Nizam Mohaideen P ,  Manik Malhotra

IPC: G06F17/27 ,  G06F16/2455

Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed herein for training a model to accurately determine whether two phrases are conversationally connected. A media guidance application may detect a first phrase and a second phrase, translate each phrase to a string of word types, append each string to the back of a prior string to create a combined string, determine a degree to which any of the individual strings, matches any singleton template, and determine a degree to which the combined string matches any conversational template. Based on the degrees to which the individual and combination strings match the singleton and conversational templates, respectively, strengths of association are correspondingly updated.

公开(公告)号：US20190087502A1

公开(公告)日：2019-03-21

申请号：US16119796

申请日：2018-08-31

Applicant: Rovi Guides, Inc.

Inventor： Sankar Ardhanari ,  Daren Gill ,  Abhijit Savarkar ,  Ganesh Ramamoorthy ,  Ajay Gupta ,  Vineet Agarwal ,  Sashikumar Venkataraman

IPC: G06F17/30 ,  G06Q30/00 ,  G06Q30/02 ,  G06Q50/00 ,  G06F3/0481 ,  G06N5/04 ,  H04M1/725 ,  G06F3/0482

Abstract: Systems and methods are described herein for updating links between keywords associated with a trending topic. Control circuitry may identify a plurality of communications associated with a plurality of users, the plurality of communications being related to a topic. The communications may comprise, for example, emails, text messages, online social media posts, websites or portions of a website, or any other online communication. The control circuitry may determine whether the topic is trending and increase a strength of association between a first symbol associated with the topic and a second symbol associated with the topic such that when a search query is received that includes the first symbol, search results related to the second symbol have a higher probability of being returned.