SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SELECTIVELY IDENTIFYING MEDIA ITEMS FOR PLAY BASED ON A RECOMMENDER PLAYLIST
First Claim
1. A method of developing media item recommendations for a user, comprising the steps of:
- receiving a media item recommendation request from a user comprising information from a recommender playlist comprising a list of one or more recommenders and one or more filter rules associated with each of the one or more recommenders;
applying the one or more filter rules associated with the one or more recommenders to recommender'"'"'s media items of one of the one or more recommenders;
selecting media item recommendations based on the application of the one or more filter rules to the recommender'"'"'s media items of the one of the one or more recommenders; and
sending the selected media item recommendations to the user.
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Abstract
A system and method for controlling media item recommendations received by a user based on the rendering of a user'"'"'s pre-established recommender playlist. The recommender playlist is a list of identifiers that identify recommenders in the user'"'"'s social network and a filter rule(s) associated with each recommender included in the recommender playlist. The filter rule(s) may be a rule associated with recommender'"'"'s media items of the recommender. The user is able to control which media items from the recommender'"'"'s media items of the recommender will be actually received by selecting the desired filter rule(s) for each of the recommenders in the user'"'"'s recommender playlist. After the user establishes the recommender playlist and the user desires to actually receive recommendations from a recommender, the user renders the recommender playlist to receive a playlist consisting of the recommender'"'"'s media items as filtered using filter rule(s) established by the user in the recommender playlist.
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29 Claims
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1. A method of developing media item recommendations for a user, comprising the steps of:
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receiving a media item recommendation request from a user comprising information from a recommender playlist comprising a list of one or more recommenders and one or more filter rules associated with each of the one or more recommenders; applying the one or more filter rules associated with the one or more recommenders to recommender'"'"'s media items of one of the one or more recommenders; selecting media item recommendations based on the application of the one or more filter rules to the recommender'"'"'s media items of the one of the one or more recommenders; and sending the selected media item recommendations to the user. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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8. A system of developing media item recommendations for a user, comprising:
a server having a control system adapted to; receive a media item recommendation request from a user comprising information from a recommender playlist comprising a list of one or more recommenders and one or more filter rules associated with each of the one or more recommenders; apply the one or more filter rules associated with the one or more recommenders to recommender'"'"'s media items of one of the one or more recommenders; select media item recommendations based on the application of the one or more filter rules to the recommender'"'"'s media items of the one of the one or more recommenders; and send the selected media item recommendations to the user. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. A method for establishing a recommender playlist for use in selecting media item recommendations by a server, comprising the steps of:
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receiving a recommender list comprising unique identifiers for one or more recommenders in a social network; and for the one or more recommenders in the recommender list; receiving a selection for a recommender within the recommender list; receiving a selection of one or more filter rules for the recommender; and storing the unique identifier and the selected one or more filter rules for the recommender in a recommender playlist. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19)
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20. A device for establishing a recommender playlist for use in selecting media item recommendations, comprising:
a control system adapted to; receive a recommender list comprising unique identifiers for one or more recommenders in a social network; and for the one or more recommenders in the recommender list; receive a selection for a recommender within the recommender list; receive a selection of one or more filter rules for the recommender; and store the unique identifier and the selected one or more filter rules for the recommender in a recommender playlist. - View Dependent Claims (21, 22, 23, 24)
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25. A user interface generated by a control system executing on a microprocessor-based user device, comprising:
a filter rules screen for receiving one or more selections used to generate a recommender playlist, the filter rules screen comprising; a recommender field for receiving the identity of a recommender associated with recommender'"'"'s media items of the recommender; a rule field for receiving one or more filter rules to be applied only to the recommender'"'"'s media items of the recommender; and an order field for receiving the position of the recommender in the recommender playlist. - View Dependent Claims (26)
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27. A user interface generated by a control system executing on a microprocessor-based user device, comprising:
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a recommender playlist screen for rendering of a recommender playlist and tracking the status of media items, the recommender playlist screen comprising; recommender columns, comprising; a recommender column comprising a list of the recommenders and a radio button for each recommender, the radio button actionable by a user to select the recommender for rendering; a unique identifier column comprising the unique identifiers of each of the recommenders; and a filter column comprising the one or more filter rules associated with each of the recommenders wherein the one or more filter rules are applied to recommender'"'"'s media items of the associated recommender to select media item recommendations of the recommender. - View Dependent Claims (28, 29)
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