Patent ID: 8635220
Filing Date: 2014-01-21
Classification: G06F,H04N

Abstract:
1. A method of providing a digital video content program, including a plurality of continuously played video assets streamed over a digital content platform, the method comprising: (a) curating a plurality of video assets into a directed weighted content graph based on a content taxonomy; (b) providing an application programming interface (API) configured to receive a programming request and an initially-viewed video asset, wherein the initially-viewed video asset is amongst the plurality of video assets curated into the content graph; a service provider computer system then (c) selecting a subset of video assets from the plurality of video assets, based on a similarity measurement between the initially-viewed video asset and one or more of the plurality of video assets, wherein the subset of video assets include two or more video assets; (d) ordering the subset of video assets into a digital video content program; and (e) sending the digital video content program to an end-user device via the API.