US 12,217,217 B2
Systems and methods for delaying the start time of an event based on event attendee arrival times
Arun Sreedhara, Bangalore (IN); Charles Dawes, Ryton (GB); and Gyanveer Singh, Bangalore (IN)
Assigned to Adeia Guides Inc., San Jose, CA (US)
Filed by Adeia Guides Inc., San Jose, CA (US)
Filed on Oct. 20, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/382,384.
Application 18/382,384 is a continuation of application No. 17/118,949, filed on Dec. 11, 2020, granted, now 11,861,564.
Application 17/118,949 is a continuation of application No. 15/623,871, filed on Jun. 15, 2017, granted, now 10,909,505, issued on Feb. 2, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2024/0046223 A1, Feb. 8, 2024
Int. Cl. G06Q 10/00 (2023.01); G06F 16/29 (2019.01); G06F 17/18 (2006.01); G06Q 10/1093 (2023.01); H04N 21/258 (2011.01)
CPC G06Q 10/1095 (2013.01) [G06F 16/29 (2019.01); G06F 17/18 (2013.01); H04N 21/25841 (2013.01)] 12 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A computer-implemented method for altering a start time of playing of a media asset, the method comprising:
retrieving, by control circuitry and via a communications network, from an information database associated with the playing of the media asset, a data structure containing the start time of the playing of the media asset, and a plurality of participant identifiers corresponding to a plurality of participants of the playing of the media asset;
transmitting, via the communications network, a poll to a plurality of mobile phones associated with the plurality of participant identifiers, wherein the poll comprises a query on whether or not to delay the start time of playing of the media asset;
receiving, via the communications network, a plurality of poll replies from the plurality of mobile phones comprising negative replies and positive replies;
comparing, by the control circuitry, a number of the negative replies and a number of the positive replies by:
calculating differences between arrival times of participants and the start time of the playing of the media asset;
averaging the differences;
determining whether the start time should be delayed based at least in part on the averaged differences;
determining the delayed start time by adjusting the start time of the playing of the media asset based at least in part on the determining whether the start time should be delayed based at least in part on the averaged differences;
assigning to the poll replies an importance weight to each mobile phone of each participant;
multiplying each difference by a corresponding weight;
calculating a weighted difference based at least in part on the difference multiplied by the corresponding weight;
averaging the weighted differences; and
further determining the delayed start time by adjusting the start time of the playing of the media asset based at least in part on the averaged weighted differences;
determining, by the control circuitry, an estimated arrival time of each of the participants with a location application on each mobile phone of each participant to determine a travel route between a current location of each mobile phone of each participant and a location of the playing of the media asset, wherein:
the location application is a global positioning system (GPS),
the GPS determines the current location of each mobile phone of each participant,
the GPS determines the travel route between the current location and the location of the playing of the media asset, and
each of the estimated arrival time of each of the participants is based at least in part on the GPS determination;
altering the delayed start time based at least in part on the estimated arrival time of each of the participants based at least in part on the GPS determination;
altering, by the control circuitry, in the information database, the start time of the playing of the media asset to the altered delayed start time; and
playing, by the control circuitry, the media asset, wherein the playing begins at the altered delayed start time.