MEDIA ASSET USAGE DATA REPORTING THAT INDICATES CORRESPONDING CONTENT CREATOR

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To track user navigation, consumption, and/or behavior and apply analysis to help shape future offerings (customized offerings, up-sells, recommendations, etc.) to a user and to provide reporting data to service providers and studios.SOLUTION: Methods and systems of providing viewing recommendations for a user includes collecting usage data related to a session of interaction by the user, processing the user data for the session, and providing feedback regarding the session. The sessions involve multiple stages tracking a user's interactions. These include stages such as an inquiry stage, a results stage, a details stage, a selection stage, and a confirmation stage. The usage data is then mined to indicate a content creator of a media asset regardless of media asset types.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 13