P2P network for providing real time media recommendations
First Claim
1. A method of recommending music comprising:
- receiving media recommendations from peer devices in a peer-to-peer (P2P) network identifying media presentations recently played on the peer devices; and
automatically selecting a media presentation to play based on the media presentations identified by the media recommendations.
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Abstract
A peer-to-peer (P2P) network for providing real time media recommendations is provided. The media recommendations may be song recommendations or video recommendations. Each time a media presentation is played by a peer device, the peer device provides a recommendation identifying the media presentation to other peer devices in the P2P network. A peer device having received recommendations from the other peer devices in the P2P network then programmatically, or automatically, selects a next media presentation to play from the media presentations recently played by the other peer devices and one or more locally stored media presentations. If the selected media presentation is not stored locally by the peer device, the peer device may obtain the selected media presentation from a subscription based service enabling streaming or download of the selected media presentation, an e-commerce service enabling purchase and download of the selected media presentation, or another peer device.
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30 Claims
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1. A method of recommending music comprising:
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receiving media recommendations from peer devices in a peer-to-peer (P2P) network identifying media presentations recently played on the peer devices; and automatically selecting a media presentation to play based on the media presentations identified by the media recommendations. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 21, 22, 23, 24)
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20. The method of 1 further comprising inserting information identifying the selected media presentation in a download queue, wherein media presentations in the download queue having a score above a first threshold and previews of media presentations in the download queue having a score above a second threshold and below the first threshold are automatically obtained from an external source.
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25. A peer device for a peer-to-peer (P2P) media recommendation system comprising:
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a communication interface communicatively coupling the peer device to other peer devices in a P2P network; and a control system associated with the communication interface and adapted to; receive media recommendations from the other peer devices identifying media presentations recently played on the other peer devices; and automatically select a media presentation to play based on the media presentations identified by the media recommendations. - View Dependent Claims (26, 27, 28, 29, 30)
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