COMBINED PERSONAL AND COMMUNITY LISTS

• US 20080288439A1
• Filed: 05/14/2007
• Published: 11/20/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 05/14/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: CHANDLEY, ADRIAN M., BURKE, GAIL I.
• Application Number:
  US11/748,119
• Publication Number:
  US 20080288439A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/4387 by the use of playlists
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/104 Grouping of entities

Abstract

Presented are techniques for creating a relationship between a community list of information and a personal list of information in order to transfer data between each list. In one technique, a community interface is displayed including a community list of information available to users within a community. Additionally, a personal interface is displayed including a personal list of information, wherein the personal list of information is available only to a user that creates the personal list of information. Furthermore, copies of an item of interest can be transferred from the community list into the personal list between the personal and community interfaces.

Claims

1. A method for creating a relationship between a community list of information and a personal list of information in order to transfer data between each list, comprising:

providing a community list of information available to users within a community, the community list including items of interest to one or more users within the community;

providing a personal list of information, wherein the personal list of information is available only to a user that creates the personal list of information; and

updating the community list of information based on a modification of the personal list of information.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the personal list of information is created by selecting one or more items of interest from the community list.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the modification of the personal list of information comprises at least one of:

adding a new item of interest into the personal list that is not from the community list;

deleting an item of interest from the personal list;

ranking one or more items of interest within the personal list;

adding multimedia content related to an item of interest within the personal list;

deleting multimedia content related to an item of interest within the personal list; and

editing multimedia content related to an item of interest within the personal list.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein updating the community list comprises at least one of:

adding a new item of interest to the community list;

ranking one or more items of interest;

deleting an item of interest from the community list;

adding multimedia content related to an item of interest within the community list;

deleting multimedia content related to an item of interest within the community list; and

editing multimedia content related to an item of interest within the community list.

5. The method according to claim 1, further comprising updating the community list based on user feedback inputted directly into the community list.

6. The method according to claim 1, wherein changes made to the community list of information do not affect the personal list of information.

7. The method according to claim 1, further comprising informing a user that a change regarding one or more items of interest within the personal list have been changed within the community list.

8. The method according to claim 7, further comprising updating the personal list according to the change.

9. A method for creating a relationship between a community list of information and a personal list of information in order to transfer data between each list, comprising:

generating a community list of information available to users within a community, the community list including items of interest to one or more users within the community;

receiving one or more keywords within a search query;

sorting the items of interest within the community list based on the one or more keywords;

ranking the sorted items of interest; and

providing one or more items from the ranked items of interest to be inputted into a personal list of information, wherein the personal list is only available to a user that created the personal list.

10. The method according to claim 9, wherein the community list is generated by users inputting items of interest directly into an interface of the community list.

11. The method according to claim 9, wherein one or more items of interest are each associated with a corresponding set of multimedia data within the community list of information.

12. The method according to claim 9, wherein the community list is generated by users inputting items of interest directly into an interface of the personal list, wherein the inputted items of interest are transferred into the community list.

13. The method according to claim 9, wherein the one or more keywords are derived from at least one user profile.

14. The method according to claim 9, wherein the one or more keywords are predetermined keywords selected by the user.

15. The method according to claim 9, wherein the one or more keywords are new keywords added by the user.

16. The method according to claim 15, wherein the sorted items are ranked based on one or more items of interest ranked within one or more personal lists.

17. The method according to claim 15, wherein the sorted items are ranked based on users inputting ranking criteria directly into an interface of the community list.

18. The method according to claim 9, further comprising extracting keywords common to the provided one or more items of interest and incorporating the extracted keywords into a user profile of the user.

19. A graphical user interface embodied on one or more computer-readable media and executable on a computer for presenting on a display screen user interfaces for creating a relationship between a community list of information and a personal list of information in order to transfer data between each list, the graphical user interface comprising:

a first screen area configured to display a community interface including a community list of information, the community list of information including items of interest to one or more users within the community; and

a second screen area configured to display a personal interface including a personal list of information, the personal list of information being available only to a user that creates the personal list of information,

wherein copies of an item of interest can be transferred from the community list into the personal list, and copies of items of interest can be transferred from the personal list into the community list.

20. The graphical user interface according to claim 19, wherein transferring a copy of an item of interest into the personal list modifies a ranking of one or more items of interest within the community list.