METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR EFFICIENTLY COMPILING MEDIA CONTENT ITEMS FOR A MEDIA-ON-DEMAND PLATFORM

摘要

For the negotiation of an operator of a media-on-demand platform with its content providers a method and system for efficiently compiling media content items for the media-on-demand platform is provided. The method makes use of a combination of a recommender system to select a suitable set of media content items to be offered for a next period of service and a number-of-rentals predictor for estimating how many videos individual users will rent the following period of service. Furthermore, the method and system can be executed for estimating profit or loss from rentals over the following period of service as well as estimate customer satisfaction.

主权项

1. A method for efficiently compiling media content items for a media-on-demand platform comprising the steps of:
providing a media-on-demand platform for offering media content items for rent to a user of the media-on-demand platform, providing a regarded media group of regarded media content items comprising at least one regarded media content item, wherein the regarded media content items are considered for being offered to a particular user on the media-on-demand platform, generating a rated group of rated media content items by determining a user specific like-rating for each regarded media content item by a recommender systems, wherein the determined like-rating is generated with regard to an assessment and/or an estimation based upon a rental history of the particular user and/or another representative user of the media-on-demand platform, and estimating a user specific number of media content items the particular user of the media-on-demand platform would rent from the rated group of rated media content items within a defined period of time by a number-of-rentals predictors, considering information about the rental history of the particular user and/or other representative users of the media-on-demand platform and the respective like-rating of the rated media content items.