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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Nov. 30, 2021

Filed:

Mar. 02, 2016
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Joel W. Branch, Hamden, CT (US);

Shang Q. Guo, Cortland Manor, NY (US);

Jonathan Lenchner, North Salem, NY (US);

Maharaj Mukherjee, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/25 (2011.01); H04N 21/466 (2011.01); H04N 21/258 (2011.01); H04N 21/45 (2011.01); H04N 21/4788 (2011.01); H04N 21/488 (2011.01); H04N 21/84 (2011.01); H04N 21/234 (2011.01); H04N 21/845 (2011.01); H04N 21/422 (2011.01); H04N 21/431 (2011.01); H04N 21/858 (2011.01); H04L 12/58 (2006.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01); G11B 27/031 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/252 (2013.01); G11B 27/031 (2013.01); H04L 51/24 (2013.01); H04L 51/32 (2013.01); H04L 67/10 (2013.01); H04L 67/125 (2013.01); H04L 67/22 (2013.01); H04L 67/26 (2013.01); H04L 67/2847 (2013.01); H04N 21/23406 (2013.01); H04N 21/25891 (2013.01); H04N 21/42203 (2013.01); H04N 21/4312 (2013.01); H04N 21/4532 (2013.01); H04N 21/4667 (2013.01); H04N 21/4788 (2013.01); H04N 21/4882 (2013.01); H04N 21/84 (2013.01); H04N 21/8456 (2013.01); H04N 21/858 (2013.01);
Abstract

Methods, systems, and computer program products for alerting users to media events of interest using social media analysis are provided herein. A computer-implemented method includes collecting user media preferences indicating events of interest to a given user; buffering at least a portion of media content associated with the collected user media preferences of the given user; monitoring social media for one or more events of interest to the given user based on the collected user media preferences of the given user; identifying at least one event that satisfies one or more predefined interest criteria for the given user based on the monitored social media contributions of other parties and the collected user media preferences of the given user; and notifying the given user of the at least one event of interest.


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