Content Recommendation System

Abstract

A social network content recommendation system allows users to identify friends, recommend content to friends, and receive awards for influencing friends. Internet pages can be used to display rankings of recommended programs, user profiles and their awards, and dynamic chats relating to specific programs, such as television shows.

1 . A method comprising:
 receiving, by a computing device and for a plurality of different times, information indicating quantities of acceptances of social media recommendations for a plurality of content items;   sending, to a requesting device associated with a user, a list of the content items, wherein the content items in the list are ordered based on respective rates of change in the quantities of acceptances of social media recommendations for respective ones of the content items;   receiving, from the requesting device, a user selection of a content item from the list; and   causing, based on the user selection, sending of the selected content item.   
     
     
         2 . The method of  claim 1 , further comprising:
 receiving, from a second requesting device associated with a second user, a second user selection of a second content item from the list; and   causing sending, to a server associated with a streaming service, of an indication to add the second content item to a playlist associated with the second user.   
     
     
         3 . The method of  claim 1 , further comprising:
 receiving, from a second requesting device associated with a second user, a second user selection of a second content item from the list; and   based on determining a streaming service linked to a user profile of the second user, causing sending, to a server associated with the streaming service, of an indication to add the second content item to a playlist associated with the second user.   
     
     
         4 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein the sending the list of the content items further comprises sending, for each of the content items in the list, an indication of a respective rate of change in a quantity of acceptances of social media recommendations for the content item. 
     
     
         5 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein a rate of change in a quantity of acceptances of social media recommendations for one of the plurality of content items is based on a rate of change in a quantity of requesting devices outputting the one of the plurality of content items. 
     
     
         6 . The method of  claim 1 , further comprising sending the social media recommendations for the plurality of content items, wherein the sending the social media recommendations is based on receiving user inputs indicating that the plurality of content items is currently being watched via a plurality of requesting devices. 
     
     
         7 . The method of  claim 1 , further comprising:
 receiving user input indicating that a second content item is currently being watched via a second requesting device associated with a second user; and   based on the user input, sending a social media recommendation, for the second content item, to a third requesting device that is associated with a third user who is in a friends list of the second user.   
     
     
         8 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein the causing sending of the content item comprises causing sending of the content item to at least one of:
 the requesting device; or   a content recording device.   
     
     
         9 . The method of  claim 1 , further comprising:
 sending, to a second requesting device, a social media recommendation for a second content item, wherein the sending the social media recommendation is based on receiving an indication that the second content item is being watched via a third requesting device associated with a second user;   receiving, from the second requesting device, an indication of acceptance of the social media recommendation for the second content item; and   based on receiving the indication of acceptance of the social media recommendation for the second content item, granting a recommendation credit for the second user.   
     
     
         10 . A method comprising:
 receiving, by a computing device and for a plurality of different time periods, information indicating quantities of acceptances of social media recommendations for a plurality of content items;   sending, to a requesting device associated with a user, a list of the content items, wherein a position of each of the content items in the list is based on comparing:
 a first plurality of acceptances, for the content item, that occurred in a first time period of the plurality of different time periods; and 
 a second plurality of acceptances, for the content item, that occurred in a second time period of the plurality of different time periods; 
   receiving, from the requesting device, a user selection of a content item from the list; and   causing, based on the user selection, sending of the selected content item.   
     
     
         11 . The method of  claim 10 , wherein the position of each of the content items in the list is based on a ratio of a first plurality of acceptances for the content item and a second plurality of acceptances for the content item. 
     
     
         12 . The method of  claim 10 , wherein the sending the list of the content items further comprises sending, for each of the content items in the list, a ratio a first plurality of acceptances for the content item and a second plurality of acceptances for the content item. 
     
     
         13 . The method of  claim 10 , further comprising:
 receiving, from a second requesting device associated with a second user, a second user selection of a second content item from the list; and   causing sending, to a server associated with a streaming service, of an indication to add the second content item to a playlist associated with the second user.   
     
     
         14 . The method of  claim 10 , further comprising sending the social media recommendations for the plurality of content items, wherein the sending the social media recommendations is based on receiving user inputs indicating that the plurality of content items is currently being watched via a plurality of requesting devices. 
     
     
         15 . The method of  claim 10 , further comprising:
 receiving user input indicating that a second content item is currently being watched via a second requesting device associated with a second user; and   based on the user input, sending a social media recommendation, for the second content item, to a third requesting device that is associated with a third user who is in a friends list of the second user.   
     
     
         16 . The method of  claim 10 , wherein the causing sending of the content item comprises causing sending of the content item to at least one of:
 the requesting device; or   a content recording device.   
     
     
         17 . A method comprising:
 receiving, by a requesting device associated with a user, a list of content items, wherein the content items in the list are ordered based on respective rates of change in quantities of acceptances of social media recommendations for respective ones of the content items;   receiving, via a user interface, a user selection of a content item from the list;   sending, to a network device, an indication of the content item; and   receiving, based on the sending the indication of the content item, the content item.   
     
     
         18 . The method of  claim 17 , further comprising:
 receiving, via the user interface, a user selection of a second content item; and   sending, to the network device, a social media recommendation for the second content item.   
     
     
         19 . The method of  claim 17 , further comprising:
 based on determining that a second content item is currently being watched via the requesting device, sending, to the network device, a social media recommendation for the second content item.   
     
     
         20 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein the receiving the list of the content items further comprises receiving, for each of the content items in the list, an indication of a respective rate of change in a quantity of acceptances of social media recommendations for the content item.