Patent ID: 8806519
Filing Date: 2014-08-12
Classification: G06Q,H04L,H04N

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: receiving, by a computing device of a shared content hosting platform, a user-generated media content item having metadata indicating a geographic location of the user-generated media content item; determining, by the computing device, geographic location metadata associated with different instances of viewing the user-generated media content item, the geographic location metadata describing a geographic location of a user device viewing the user-generated media content item; calculating, by the computing device, a view geographic entropy of the user-generated media content item by distributing the determined geographic location metadata across multiple geographic regions while taking into account the geographic location of the user-generated media content item; and providing, by the computing device, the calculated view geographic entropy of the user-generated media content item for presentation in a visual display that is part of an analytical report of the user-generated media content item.