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Date of Patent:
Jun. 16, 2026

Filed:

Mar. 14, 2024
Applicant:

Pinterest, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);

Inventor:

Liang MA, Belmont, CA (US);

Assignee:

Pinterest, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/232 (2011.01); H04N 21/2387 (2011.01); H04N 21/25 (2011.01); H04N 21/472 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/232 (2013.01); H04N 21/2387 (2013.01); H04N 21/251 (2013.01); H04N 21/472 (2013.01);
Abstract

Described are systems and methods for determining and/or generating a queue of content items to improve the playback experience of the content items for a user. The content items may be obtained by a client device from an online service in response to a query, a request for content items, etc. Relevance rankings and/or scores associated with the content items may be replaced and/or augmented with a playability score, which can represent a quality of the playback experience associated with the content item. The playability score may be aggregated with the relevance and/or user engagement score to determine an overall playback score for each content item. The content items may be ranked, ordered, arranged, and/or presented in accordance with the overall playback scores associated with the content items to facilitate an improved playback experience for a user associated with the client device.


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