DISTRIBUTING PERSONALIZED CONTENT
First Claim
1. A method of generating a theme-based channel of music for an Internet Radio station, the method comprising:
- determining a score for one content element within a set of content elements that share a theme of the theme-based channel of music, the score being responsive to a predicted recipient interest in the one content element;
comparing the score for the one content element with a threshold;
identifying, based on the comparison with the threshold, the one content element;
selecting the identified content element;
scheduling the selected content element to be available to users requesting the theme-based channel of music;
receiving a request from a requestor for access to the theme-based channel of music; and
enabling perception, based in part on the received request from the requestor for access to the theme-based channel of music, of the scheduled content element by the requester.
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Abstract
The invention provides a method and system for distributing personalized content to potentially large numbers of recipients. A pool is selected, from among all content available for distribution, of those content elements that will be made available for simultaneous distribution, and personalized content is selected for distribution from that pool. The content of the pool can change with new selections over time. For each individual recipient, content elements in the pool are examined to determine if they are predicted to be of sufficient interest to that recipient for distribution, and if so, those content elements are distributed. If not, successive content elements in the pool are examined, relaxing the standard for sufficient interest, until at least one content element is found and distributed to the individual recipient.
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27 Claims
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1. A method of generating a theme-based channel of music for an Internet Radio station, the method comprising:
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determining a score for one content element within a set of content elements that share a theme of the theme-based channel of music, the score being responsive to a predicted recipient interest in the one content element; comparing the score for the one content element with a threshold; identifying, based on the comparison with the threshold, the one content element; selecting the identified content element; scheduling the selected content element to be available to users requesting the theme-based channel of music; receiving a request from a requestor for access to the theme-based channel of music; and enabling perception, based in part on the received request from the requestor for access to the theme-based channel of music, of the scheduled content element by the requester. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25)
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26. A system for generating a theme-based channel of music for an Internet Radio station, the system comprising:
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means for determining a score for one content element within a set of content elements that share a theme of the theme-based channel of music, the score being responsive to a predicted recipient interest in the one content element; means for comparing the score for the one content element with a threshold; means for identifying, based on the comparison with the threshold, the one content element; means for selecting the identified content element; means for scheduling the selected content element to be available to users requesting the theme-based channel of music; means for receiving a request from a requestor for access to the theme-based channel of music; and means for enabling perception, based in part on the received request from the requestor for access to the theme-based channel of music, of the scheduled content element by the requester.
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27. A tangible computer-readable medium having embodied thereon a computer program configured to generate a theme-based channel of music for an Internet Radio station, the computer program comprising one or more code segments that, when executed, cause a computer to:
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determine a score for one content element within a set of content elements that share a theme of the theme-based channel of music, the score being responsive to a predicted recipient interest in the one content element; compare the score for the one content element with a threshold; identify, based on the comparison with the threshold, the one content element; select the identified content element; schedule the selected content element to be available to users requesting the theme-based channel of music; receive a request from a requestor for access to the theme-based channel of music; and enable perception, based in part on the received request from the requestor for access to the theme-based channel of music, of the scheduled content element by the requestor.
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