Override of automatically shared meta-data of media

• US 10,061,849 B2
• Filed: 08/18/2014
• Issued: 08/28/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 03/15/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Original Assignee: Beats Music, LLC (Apple Inc.)
• Inventors: Hyman, David
• Primary Examiner(s): Vo, Truong
• Application Number:
  US14/462,202
• Publication Number:
  US 20140358927A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,471 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/437 Administration of user profiles, e.g. generation, initialisation, adaptation, distribution
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/4387 by the use of playlists
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/639 using playlists

Abstract

An override of automatically shared meta-data of media method and apparatus are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method of a server device includes automatically populating a hierarchy using a play-list history data associated with a media data of a client device, and modifying the hierarchy based on a user override. The hierarchy may be a hierarchy of the play-list history data of certain items associated with the media data of the client device. A modified hierarchy may be generated based on an addition, deletion and/or an adjust modifying operation of the user override on the hierarchy, and may be automatically populated on a new mark-up language file. A new compatibility rating may be determined between the user and the other users based on the similar attributes between the modified hierarchy and the other hierarchies, and each user may be enabled to view mark-up language files of the other users.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

outputting for display on a graphical user interface of a client device, one or more media object identifiers based on a history log of media data usage of the client device;

automatically generating an arrangement, without user interaction, of the one or more media object identifiers for display on the graphical user interface;

receiving an override operation, the override operation altering the history log of media data usage; and

automatically re-arranging the one or more media object identifiers of the arrangement in accordance with the altered history log of media data usage.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the history log of media data usage is executable as a radio station.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the override operation comprises at least one of an addition, deletion and adjust modifying operation.

4. The method of claim 3, further comprising:

associating the re-arranged arrangement with a particular user; and

associating the particular user with other arrangements associated with other users based on similar attributes in the one or more media object identifiers of the particular user and other media object identifiers associated with the other users.

5. The method of claim 4, further comprising:

enabling the particular user to view the other arrangements associated with the other users.

6. The method of claim 5, further comprising forming a group between the particular user and at least one of the other users based on a threshold parameter of a compatibility rating between the user and the other users based on the similar attributes.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the media object identifiers comprise one of a party object, a personal detail object, a tag object, a guestbook object, an internal messaging object, a share object, a photo object, a tuned-in now object, a post object, a reviews object, and a live event object.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein a content data created using the post object is automatically deleted from the arrangement and deleted from at least one of an artist arrangement, an album arrangement, a particular item arrangement, and a fan club arrangement when the override operation is a delete operation.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the history log comprises playlist history data of the client device, and wherein the arrangement is described by a mark-up language.

10. At least one non-transitory computer readable medium comprising instructions, which, when executed by at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to:

output for display on a graphical user interface of a client device, one or more automatically arranged, without user interaction, media object identifiers based on a history log of media data usage of the client device; and

automatically re-arrange the one or more media object identifiers in accordance with an override operation, the override operation altering the history log of media data usage.

11. The at least one non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 10, wherein the instructions, which, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to:

cause a refresh of a the graphical user interface with a modified history of items of media data of the client device.

12. The at least one non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 10, wherein the override operation is facilitated by modifying media data associated with the history log.

13. A computing device comprising:

at least one processor;

at least one non-transitory computer readable medium storing instructions, which, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to;

output for display a graphical user interface with one or more media object identifiers automatically populated and arranged based at least in part on a history log of media data usage of a client device;

modify the history log of media data usage based on an override operation;

output for display an updated graphical user interface with the one or more media object identifiers automatically re-arranged based on the modified history log of media data usage.

14. The computing device of claim 13, further comprising:

a network adapter configured to;

communicatively couple to an admired client device; and

share an admired history log of media data usage with the admired client device.

15. The computing device of claim 13, further comprising:

a network adapter configured to communicatively couple to a peer client device, the peer client device assigned a kin status with the client device based on a similarity between the modified history log of media data usage of the client device and another history log of media data usage of the peer client device.

16. The computing device of claim 15, further comprising instructions, which, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to group the client device and the peer client device based on a threshold parameter of a compatibility rating, the compatibility rating generated based on the kin status.

17. The computing device of claim 13, wherein the instructions, which, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to modify the history log of media data usage comprise instructions, which, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to modify the history log of media data usage using an object chosen from a group comprising:

a party object, a personal detail object, a tag object, a guestbook object, an internal messaging object, a share object, a photo object, a tuned-in now object, a post object, a reviews object, and a live event object.

18. The computing device of claim 17, wherein a content data created using the post object is automatically removed from the graphical user interface and removed from at least one of an artist graphical user interface, an album graphical user interface, a particular item graphical user interface, and a fan club graphical user interface when the modifying operation is a delete operation on the post object.

19. The computing device of claim 13, wherein the display is configured to render streaming multimedia content based on the history log of media data usage.

20. The computing device of claim 19, wherein the streaming multimedia content comprises at least one of a radio station, a video station, and a multimedia channel.