Recommendation component for assisted electronic information processing

Abstract

Methods for a computer implemented game are described that provide assistance to game participants in making various game related decisions easily and quickly. A computer-implemented system may comprise a multimedia content module to provide multimedia content—within a game, a game server application comprising a player ranking module that ranks players based on and a recommendation module to provide recommendations to participants based on the ranking module to assist users with game play. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

1 . A computer-implemented system comprising:
 a multimedia content module operative to provide multimedia content related to one or more players within a game;   a game server application operative to provide player recommendations to one or more users utilizing the multimedia content received from the multimedia content module, the game server comprising:
 a player ranking module operative to rank one or more players based on certain of the multimedia content and output a player ranking by corresponding player position; 
 a player comparison module operative to receive the player ranking by position and compare the ranked players to a roster of players associated with the one or more users by corresponding position; 
 a recommendation module operative to receive the comparison of the ranked players to the roster of players by corresponding position and recommending to the one or more users the ranked player when said ranked player is ranked higher than the corresponding player on the users roster at the corresponding position; and 
 an action items module operative to:
 determine the status of a ranked player, the status being one of a bench player the roster of a user, a player on the roster of another user, and a free agent not currently on any user's roster; and 
 replace the roster player of the one or more users with the ranked player at the corresponding position. 
 
   
     
     
         2 . (canceled) 
     
     
         3 . The computer implemented system of  claim 1  further comprising a multimedia content interface operative to receive the certain of the multimedia information from the multimedia content and information module and associate said multimedia information with the corresponding player to be ranked. 
     
     
         4 . The computer implemented system of  claim 1  further comprising a multimedia content interface operative to receive the certain of the multimedia information from the multimedia content and information module and associate said multimedia information with a corresponding player on the roster of the one or more users at the corresponding position. 
     
     
         5 . The computer implemented system of  claim 1  further comprising a manage settings application operative to receive recommended ranked player and display said recommended ranked player for acceptance or rejection by the one or more users. 
     
     
         6 . The computer implemented system of  claim 1  further comprising a manage settings application operative to allow the one or more users to display said recommended ranked player by position. 
     
     
         7 . A computer-implemented method comprising:
 providing multimedia content related to one or more players within a game;   ranking the one or more players based on certain of the multimedia content;   outputting a ranking of each player by corresponding position;   comparing each ranked player to a roster of players associated with the one or more users by corresponding position;   determining the status of a ranked player, the status being one of a bench player on the roster of a user, a player on the roster of another user, and a free agent not currently on any user's roster;   recommending to the one or more users the ranked player when said ranked player is ranked higher than the corresponding player on the roster of the one or more users at the corresponding position; and   replacing the roster player of the one or more users with the ranked player at the corresponding position when the ranked player is ranked higher than the corresponding player on the roster of the one or more users at the corresponding position.   
     
     
         8 . (canceled) 
     
     
         9 . The computer-implemented method of  claim 7  further comprising receiving the certain of the multimedia information from the multimedia content and information module and associating said multimedia information with a corresponding player to be ranked. 
     
     
         10 . The computer-implemented method of  claim 7  further comprising receiving the certain of the multimedia information from the multimedia content and information module and associating said multimedia information with a player on the roster of the one or more users at the corresponding position. 
     
     
         11 . The computer-implemented method of  claim 7  further comprising receiving the recommended ranked player and displaying said recommended ranked player for acceptance or rejection by the one or more users. 
     
     
         12 . The computer implemented method of  claim 7  further comprising displaying to the one or more users said recommended ranked player by position. 
     
     
         13 . The computer-implemented method of  claim 7  wherein if the ranked player is a bench player ranked higher than the corresponding player on the roster of the one or more users at the corresponding position, then the method further comprising
 replacing the player on the roster of the first user with the ranked player at the corresponding position. 
 
     
     
         14 . The computer-implemented game method of  claim 7  wherein the one or more ranked player are at least three ranked players by corresponding position, the method further comprising:
 determining if any of the three ranked players has a higher ranking than the corresponding player on the roster of a first of the one or more users; and 
 if the ranked player is on the roster of another user then proposing a trade to the other user on which the first of the three ranked players is identified as being part of the associated roster. 
 
     
     
         15 . An article of manufacture comprising a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium containing instructions that when executed enable a system to:
 provide multimedia content related to one or more players within a game;   rank the one or more players based on certain of the multimedia content;   output a ranking of each player by corresponding position;   compare each ranked player to a roster of players associated with the one or more users by corresponding position;   determine the status of a ranked player, the status being one of a bench player on the roster of a user, a player on the roster of another user, and a free agent not currently on any user's roster; and   recommend to the one or more users the ranked player when said ranked player is ranked higher than the corresponding player on the roster of the one or more users at the corresponding position.   
     
     
         16 . The article of  claim 15  wherein the game corresponds to a fantasy sports game and the one or more players corresponds to players in a real-life sporting event. 
     
     
         17 . The article of  claim 15 , further comprising instructions that when executed enable the system to replace the roster player of the one or more users with the ranked player at the corresponding position when the ranked player is ranked higher than the corresponding player on the roster of the one or more users at the corresponding position. 
     
     
         18 . The article of  claim 15 , further comprising instructions that when executed enable the system to receive the certain of the multimedia information from the multimedia content and information module and associate said multimedia information with a corresponding player to be ranked. 
     
     
         19 . The article of  claim 15 , further comprising instructions that when executed enable the system to receive the recommended ranked player and display said recommended ranked player for acceptance or rejection by the one or more users. 
     
     
         20 . The article of  claim 15 , further comprising instructions that when executed enable the system to automatically update the roster of the one or more users with the ranked player at the corresponding position. 
     
     
         21 . The computer implemented system of  claim 1 , the recommendation module further operative to propose a trade for a ranked player on the roster of another user. 
     
     
         22 . The article of  claim 15 , further comprising instructions that when executed enable the system to propose a trade for a ranked player on the roster of another user.