Rovi Guides, Inc.

Adeia Guides Inc.

Pawan Nagdeve

Vishwas Sharadanagar Panchaksharaiah

Gudimetla Baby

Sambeet Burma

Poovarasan Chitravel

Gyanveer Singh

Cato Yang

Reda Harb

Harshith Kumar Gejjegondanahally Sreekanth

Anjum Makkar

Systems and methods for creating, monitoring, and managing a breakout conference for a conference call are disclosed. The methods determine topics for breakout rooms and their complexity scores. A breakout room is created for the topics, including separate breakout rooms for complex topics. An expertise score based on a plurality of factors for each device associated with a participant is also calculated. Devices are assigned to separate breakout rooms based on either just the expertise score or if the expertise score meets the threshold of the complexity score. Performance within the breakout rooms is displayed in real-time, such as in a graph. A moderator schedule is generated based the performance within the breakout rooms, where priority is given to a breakout room that has a negative performance over a breakout room with a positive performance.

Systems and methods for creating and managing breakout sessions for a conference session

Systems and methods are provided herein for including supplemental content with segments based on the complexity of the segment. This may be accomplished by a system receiving complexity information related to a media asset and user information related to a viewer to determine if one or more segments of the media asset is complex for the user. If the system receives a trick play command, from the user, during a segment categorized as complex, the system can use the complexity information and user information to generate supplemental content, facilitating better user understanding of the complex segment.

Systems and methods to enhance segment during trick play

Systems and methods are provided for providing an enhanced viewing experience for one or more users of an interactive media program. One example method includes receiving, at a computing device, the interactive media program, wherein the interactive media program comprises a plurality of alternative segments followed by a common segment. A selection of a first alternative segment is received and is generated for output. A summary of at least one segment from the plurality of alternative segments is generated, and the summary is generated for output. The common segment of the interactive media program is generated for output.

System and methods to enhance interactive program watching

Methods and systems generate improved viewership of and interest in content including live events, sporting events, and reality shows utilizing improved content delivery (including streaming content delivery, primary content delivery, and secondary content delivery), analysis of media content items, user interaction, automatic control without user interaction, display configurations, user interfaces, selectable options, live and non-live content, temporal considerations, determinations, predictions, likelihoods, measurements of user interestedness, measurements of relatedness, content availability, user-generated content, identification and delivery of content of particular interest to a user, metadata analysis, playlist generation, and concurrent live content availability. Based on these improvements, dynamic streaming content feeds are generated, which are specifically adapted to the determined interests of a user or a clustered group of users in order to increase viewership of and interest in content. Related apparatuses, devices, techniques, and articles are also described.

Methods and systems to increase interest in and viewership of content before, during and after a live event

Systems and methods are provided for generating an advertisement for output based on an item on a wish list. A request to obtain media content is received at a computing device, and a user profiled associated with the media content is identified. A wish list associated with the user profile is accessed, and an item on the wish list is identified. A first advertisement is identified, wherein the first advertisement is based on the identified item. A representation of the first advertisement and the media content are received at the computing device. A representation of the first advertisement and the media content are generated for output at the computing device.

Systems and methods to improve presentation of advertisements

Systems and methods are described for operating a group watching session, in which a group watching session for presentation of a media content item is initiated at a first participant device and a second participant device; a segment of the media content item for which the presentation of the media content item is to be synchronized at the first participant device and the second participant device is identified; a viewing progress of the media content item at the first participant device is determined to be different from a viewing progress of the media content item at the second participant device; and in response to the determining, the viewing progress at the first and second participant devices is synchronized for the presentation of the identified segment.

Methods and systems for operating a group watching session

Systems and methods to enhance interactive program watching

Systems and methods are provided for determining a subset of available paths of an interactive media program to generate for output. One example method includes receiving, at a computing device, the interactive media program, wherein the interactive media program comprises a plurality of alternative segments followed by a common segment and accessing a user profile. A subset of the plurality of alternative segments are identified, based on the user profile. A set of options for output are generated, wherein the set of options enables one of the alternative segments to be selected from the identified subset of the alternative segments. A selection of an option of the set of options is received, wherein the option is a first option and a first segment of the subset of the plurality of alternative segments is generated for output, based on the selected option.

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Pawan Nagdeve