A recommender engine is configured to access memory and surface transmedia content items; and/or linked transmedia content subsets; and/or one or more identifications of identified users; and/or content items of the plurality of transmedia content items associated with at least one identified user. The surfaced items are presented for selection by the given user via the transmedia content linking engine as one or more user-selected transmedia content items.
FIELD OF DISCLOSURE(1) The present disclosure relates to an apparatus, system and method for processing transmedia content data. For example, the disclosure provides for identifying and surfacing recommendations of transmedia content to users for processing of transmedia content, and additionally the disclosure also provides for user modelling of users accessing transmedia content data.BACKGROUND(2) Influenced by a variety of different multimedia content types, new digital distribution channels, mobile communication devices and an ever increasing use of social media, industry is currently experiencing a disruption in how media is created, distributed and consumed. Classical production pipelines have become less effective as audiences move towards anytime, anywhere, personalized consumption, substituting TV-centric models with multi-device, multichannel models. Individual customers and groups of customers have also become more interactive and participatory, contributing significantly to the creation of new media. The cycles in the traditional creation-distribution-consumption loop become much shorter as consumers constantly provide feedback, resulting in a trend towards ultrashort form content.(3) Existing delivery platforms, for example YouTube and Facebook, allow for the creation and editing of simple channel based content, using a basic model whereby content creators can upload content such as video, text or images, and users can consume the content in an isolated, linear a
1. An apparatus for surfacing transmedia content to a given user of a plurality of users comprising: a memory configured to store: a plurality of transmedia content data items, each content data item being associated with at least one of the plurality of users; and linking data which define time-ordered content links between the plurality of transmedia content data items, the plurality of transmedia content data items being arranged into linked transmedia content subsets comprising different groups of the transmedia content data items and different content links therebetween, wherein each time-ordered content link defines a directional link from a first transmedia content data item to a second transmedia content data item of the plurality of transmedia content items; a transmedia content linking engine performed by a processor configured to receive user input indicative of a time-ordering between at least two user-selected transmedia content data items and generate the linking data for storage in the memory, thereby defining a linked transmedia content subset including the at least two user-selected transmedia content data items, wherein the transmedia content linking engine is configured to identify a current user-selected time-ordered location of the given user within a given linked transmedia content subset for insertion of one of the transmedia content data items, and to generate corresponding content linking data therefor upon insertion by the given user of the one or more content data items into the given linked transmedia content subset; and a recommender engine component, performed by the processor, configured to access the memory and surface to the given user at least one of the following based on the current user-selected time-ordered location: one or more content items of the plurality of transmedia content data items, one or more of the linked transmedia content subsets of the linked transmedia content subsets, one or more identifications of identified users other than the given user, and the content items of the plurality of transmedia content data items associated with at least one identified user other than the given user, wherein the one or more surfaced content data items and/or the one or more surfaced linked transmedia content subsets are surfaced for selection by the given user via the transmedia content linking engine as one or more user-selectable transmedia content data items. |
25. A method for surfacing transmedia content to a given user of a plurality of users from a memory configured to store a plurality of transmedia content data items, each content item being associated with at least one of the plurality of users, and linking data which define time-ordered content links between the plurality of transmedia content items, the plurality of transmedia content items being arranged into linked transmedia content subsets comprising different groups of the transmedia content items and different content links therebetween, wherein each time-ordered content link defines a directional link from a first transmedia content data item to a second transmedia content data item of the plurality of transmedia content items, the method comprising: receiving, at a processor, user input indicative of a time-ordering between at least two user-selected transmedia content items, wherein the processor is configured to identify a current user-selected time-ordered location of the given user within a given linked transmedia content subset for insertion of one of the transmedia content data items, and to generate corresponding content linking data therefor upon insertion by the given user of the one or more content data items into the given linked transmedia content subset; generating with the processor the content linking data for storage in the memory, thereby defining a linked transmedia content subset including the at least two user-selected transmedia content items; and accessing the memory and surfacing to the given user with a recommender engine component, performed by the processor at least one of the following based on the current user-selected time-ordered location: one or more transmedia content items of the plurality of transmedia content data items, one or more of the linked transmedia content subsets of the linked transmedia content subsets, one or more identifications of identified users other than the given user, and the transmedia content items of the plurality of transmedia content data items associated with at least one identified user other than the given user, wherein the one or more surfaced content data items and/or the one or more surfaced linked transmedia content subsets are surfaced for selection by the given user via the transmedia content linking engine as one or more user-selectable transmedia content data items.