US 11,816,141 B2
Media consumption history
Matthew Sharifi, Kilchberg (CH)
Assigned to GOOGLE LLC, Mountain View, CA (US)
Filed by Google LLC, Mountain View, CA (US)
Filed on Apr. 24, 2019, as Appl. No. 16/393,029.
Application 15/173,794 is a division of application No. 14/133,791, filed on Dec. 19, 2013, granted, now 10,275,464, issued on Apr. 30, 2019.
Application 16/393,029 is a continuation of application No. 15/173,794, filed on Jun. 6, 2016, granted, now 10,303,779, issued on May 28, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 61/866,234, filed on Aug. 15, 2013.
Prior Publication US 2019/0251117 A1, Aug. 15, 2019
Int. Cl. G06F 16/00 (2019.01); G06F 16/487 (2019.01); G06F 16/245 (2019.01); G06F 16/432 (2019.01); G06F 16/435 (2019.01); G06F 16/48 (2019.01); G06F 16/683 (2019.01); G06F 16/955 (2019.01); G06F 16/2455 (2019.01); G06F 16/783 (2019.01); G06F 16/9535 (2019.01); G06F 16/2457 (2019.01); G06Q 30/0601 (2023.01); G06Q 30/02 (2023.01)
CPC G06F 16/487 (2019.01) [G06F 16/245 (2019.01); G06F 16/2455 (2019.01); G06F 16/24578 (2019.01); G06F 16/433 (2019.01); G06F 16/435 (2019.01); G06F 16/437 (2019.01); G06F 16/489 (2019.01); G06F 16/685 (2019.01); G06F 16/7834 (2019.01); G06F 16/955 (2019.01); G06F 16/9535 (2019.01); G06Q 30/02 (2013.01); G06Q 30/0631 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A computer-implemented method comprising:
receiving, by one or more computers, a request at a request time that indicates (i) a user that submitted a search query, and (ii) an entity that is referenced by the search query;
identifying, by the one or more computers, (i) one or more items that have been indicated as consumed by the user and that are associated with the entity that is referenced by the search query, and (ii) for each item, a time of when the user consumed the item and a prominence of the entity in the item;
determining, based at least on (i) identifying the one or more items that have been indicated as consumed by the user and that are associated with the entity that is referenced by the search query, and (ii) for each item, the time the user consumed the item and the prominence of the entity in the item, a level of familiarity of the user with the entity, wherein a level of familiarity of a first entity is higher than a level of familiarity of a second entity when a first time that an item associated with the first entity was consumed by the user is closer in time to the request time than a second time that an item associated with the second entity was consumed by the user;
selecting, by the one or more computers, from a plurality of knowledge elements that are related to the entity that is referenced by the search query, one or more knowledge elements to include in a knowledge card that is to be presented in a search results page in response to the request, the one or more knowledge elements being selected based at least on the determined level of familiarity, wherein a likelihood of selection of knowledge elements associated with news articles increases as the determined level of familiarity increases and a likelihood of selection of knowledge elements associated with informational knowledge elements increases as the determined level of familiarity decreases;
determining, by the one or more computers and based at least on the determined level of familiarity, a position of the knowledge card that is to be presented in the search results page in response to the request with respect to a listing of search results that is also to be presented in the search results page in response to the request; and
providing, by the one or more computers and in response to the request, data that causes the knowledge card, including the one or more knowledge elements, to be presented within the search results page such that a position of the knowledge card presented within the search results page corresponds to the determined position.