System and method for selecting a music channel
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1. A method of selecting content comprising:
- providing user profile information representing information about a user that is not specific to the content;
providing a schedule of content, the schedule identifying a collection of content which is simultaneously available for access;
providing content-specific information, the content-specific information being associated with the content in the schedule;
assigning a value to each member in the collection based on the content-specific information and the user profile information;
selecting one of the members of the collection of content by comparing the values;
accessing the selected content; and
playing the selected content.
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Abstract
A system and method including an agent for selecting a song among simultaneously streaming songs based on user information is presented.
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35 Claims
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1. A method of selecting content comprising:
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providing user profile information representing information about a user that is not specific to the content;
providing a schedule of content, the schedule identifying a collection of content which is simultaneously available for access;
providing content-specific information, the content-specific information being associated with the content in the schedule;
assigning a value to each member in the collection based on the content-specific information and the user profile information;
selecting one of the members of the collection of content by comparing the values;
accessing the selected content; and
playing the selected content. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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21. A method of automatically selecting songs comprising:
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providing user-profile information related to a user and not specific to songs;
providing song-specific information related to songs and not specific to a user;
providing user-preference information related to the user and related to songs;
determining which songs are currently available for access;
selecting a song based on such information; and
accessing the selected song. - View Dependent Claims (22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29)
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30. A system for selecting content comprising:
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a processor capable of accessing and executing instructions, instructions including;
obtaining user profile information representing information about a user that is not specific to the content;
obtaining a schedule of content, the schedule identifying a collection of content which is simultaneously available for access;
obtaining content-specific information, the content-specific information being associated with the content in the schedule;
assigning a value to each member in the collection based on the content-specific information and the user profile information;
selecting one of the members of the collection of content by comparing the values; and
accessing the selected content. - View Dependent Claims (31, 32)
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33. A method of switching from a first channel to a second channel, the first and second channel providing digitally-encoded music for access, the method comprising:
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accessing music from the first channel, determining a value representative of the likelihood of the user being interested in the music from the second channel, the determination being based on information related to the music on the second music channel and information related to a user but not specific to the music on the second music channel, accessing music from the second channel dependant upon the result of the value. - View Dependent Claims (34, 35)
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