US 12,342,042 B2
System and methods for providing and consuming online media content
Chaitanya Korupolu, Visakhapatnam (IN); Girish Padmanabhan, Pune (IN); and Venkata Vara Prasad Karri, Visakhapatnam (IN)
Assigned to International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US)
Filed by International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US)
Filed on May 3, 2019, as Appl. No. 16/403,235.
Prior Publication US 2020/0351550 A1, Nov. 5, 2020
Int. Cl. H04N 21/442 (2011.01); H04N 21/466 (2011.01); H04N 21/6587 (2011.01)
CPC H04N 21/44218 (2013.01) [H04N 21/44222 (2013.01); H04N 21/4667 (2013.01); H04N 21/6587 (2013.01)] 11 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for providing online media content in an online learning setting, comprising:
providing online audiovisual media, to a client device, to be displayed to a user in an online learning setting;
detecting multiple times by a computing device an attention level of the user in the online learning setting, the attention level in the online learning setting detected by comparing previously recorded images of the user tagged as attentive or inattentive to previous online learning settings with a current image of the user in the online learning setting;
in response to detecting by the computing device that the user keeps losing his or her attention in the online learning setting repeatedly by comparing previously recorded images of the user in previous online learning settings with the current image of the user in the online learning setting, making a determination regarding an alternative means of learning material to present to the user in the online learning setting, the alternative means a preferred means of learning based on a type of media the user prefers in learning; and
providing a modified version of the audiovisual media via the client device to the user by substituting audiovisual media with audio content, video content, or text content based on the preferred means of learning of the type of media the user prefers.