System and method for providing recommendations to a user in a viewing social network

摘要

Method and systems are provided for initiating communication with a social networking server maintaining user information corresponding to a user, the user information for the user comprising media preferences for the user, one or more connections associated with the user, and media preferences for each of the one or more connections, retrieving at least a portion of the user information for the user from the social networking server and generating a viewing recommendation for the user at least in part based on at least one of the media preferences of the user, and the media preferences of the one or more connections, the viewing recommendation comprising one or more multi-media content.

主权项

1. A method comprising:
initiating communication with a social networking server maintaining user information corresponding to a user, the user information for the user comprising media preferences for the user, one or more connections associated with the user, and media preferences for each of the one or more connections; retrieving, at a first intermediary server, at least a portion of the user information for the user from the social networking server; generating a viewing recommendation for the user at least in part based on at least one of the media preferences of the user, and the media preferences of the one or more connections, the viewing recommendation comprising one or more multi-media content; and facilitating a peer-to-peer connection between a first client device associated with the user and a second client device associated with one of the one or more connection for real-time communication between the first client device and the second client device; wherein the generating of the viewing recommendation is further based on data received through the peer-to-peer connection; wherein the first intermediary server maintains a lookup table of only a first set of client devices directly connected to the first intermediary server; wherein the first intermediary server maintains an open communicational coupling to a second intermediary server which maintains a lookup table of only a second set of client devices connected to the second intermediary server, separate from the first set of client devices; wherein the lookup table maintained on the first intermediary server allows the first intermediary server to send a message for a receiving client device directly to an intermediary server directly connected to the receiving client device; and wherein the first and second intermediary server each comprises a separate Application Programming Interface (API) module for communicating with the social networking server.