METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AUTOMATED USER REVIEW OF MEDIA CONTENT IN A MOBILE COMMUNICATION DEVICE

• US 20080189354A1
• Filed: 02/02/2007
• Published: 08/07/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 02/02/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Google Technology Holdings LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Motorola, Inc. (Motorola Solutions, Inc.)
• Inventors: Narasimhan, Nitya, Pearce, Michael D., Chaudhri, Rohit
• Granted Patent: US 8,768,744 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/203
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/41407 embedded in a portable device, e.g. video client on a mobile phone, PDA, laptop constructional details of equipment or arrangements specially adapted for portable computer application G06F1/1626; arrangements specially adapted for mobile receivers in broadcast systems H04H20/57
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4756 for rating content, e.g. scoring a recommended movie

Abstract

A method and apparatus that creates reviews of media content on a mobile communication device is disclosed. The method may include identifying media content being played for a user, receiving a review from the user based on the played media content, and sending the user'"'"'s review to a remote media content server for processing.

Claims

1. A method for creating reviews of media content on a mobile communication device, comprising:

identifying media content being played for a user;

receiving a review from the user based on the played media content; and

sending the user'"'"'s review to a remote media content server for processing.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

prompting the user to review the played media content.

3. The method of claim 2, further comprising:

receiving a request from the remote media content server to prompt the user to review the played media content.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein the user is prompted to review the media content after a predetermined number of times the played media content has been played.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the mobile communication device is synced with a personal computer which forwards the user'"'"'s review of the played media content to the remote media content server.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the user'"'"'s reviews include at least one of ratings and scores based on the played media content.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the mobile communication device is one of a portable MP3 player, a satellite radio receiver, an AM/FM radio receiver, a satellite television, an iPod, a personal computer, a laptop, a potable computer, a wireless radio, a wireless telephone, a digital video recorder, a wireless communication device, a cellular telephone, a mobile telephone, and a personal digital assistant (PDA).

8. A mobile communication device, comprising:

a media content player that plays media content to a user; and

a review creation unit that identifies media content being played for the user by the media content player, receives a review from the user based on the played media content, and sends the user'"'"'s review to a remote media content server for processing.

9. The mobile communication device of claim 8, wherein the review creation unit prompts the user to review the played media content.

10. The mobile communication device of claim 9, wherein the review creation unit receives a request from the remote media content server to prompt the user to review the played media content.

11. The mobile communication device of claim 9, wherein the review creation unit prompts the user to review the played media content after a predetermined number of times the media content has been played.

12. The mobile communication device of claim 8, wherein the mobile communication device is synced with a personal computer which forwards the user'"'"'s review of the played media content to the remote media content server.

13. The mobile communication device of claim 8, wherein the user'"'"'s reviews include at least one of ratings and scores based on the played media content.

14. The mobile communication device of claim 8, wherein the mobile communication device is one of a portable MP3 player, a satellite radio receiver, an AM/FM radio receiver, a satellite television, an iPod, a personal computer, a laptop, a potable computer, a wireless radio, a wireless telephone, a digital video recorder, a wireless communication device, a cellular telephone, a mobile telephone, and a personal digital assistant (PDA).

15. A method of processing user reviews of media content sent from mobile communication devices, comprising:

identifying media content sent to a user;

receiving a review of the media content from the user;

processing the received review; and

storing the processed review in a review database.

16. The method of claim 15, further comprising:

extracting attributes from the received review; and

storing the extracted attributes in the review database.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein the extracted attributes are at least one of actor, artist, author, title, ratings, scores, duration, user identity and genre.

18. The method of claim 15, further comprising:

scrubbing the received reviews by at least one of correcting spelling and correcting language.

19. The method of claim 15, wherein the received reviews include at least one of ratings and scores based on the played media content;

and

recording the at least one of ratings and scores in the review database.

20. The method of claim 15, further comprising:

sending a prompt to the mobile communication device for the user to review media content.