SCORING AND REPLAYING MEDIA ITEMS

• US 20090055396A1
• Filed: 06/01/2007
• Published: 02/26/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 07/11/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Concert Technology Corporation
• Original Assignee: Concert Technology Corporation
• Inventors: Svendsen, Hugh, Askey, Waymen J.
• Granted Patent: US 8,805,831 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/00 Editing; Indexing; Addressing; Timing or synchronising; Monitoring; Measuring tape travel
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/105 of operating discs
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/11 by using information not detectable on the record carrier
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/00 Data switching networks interconnection of, or transfer of information or other signals between, memories, input/output devices or central processing units G06F13/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/2803 Home automation networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/104 Peer-to-peer [P2P] networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1082 involving incentive schemes
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/00 Network arrangements, protocols or services independent of the application payload and not provided for in the other groups of this subclass networks security protocols H04L9/40; wireless communication networks H04W

Abstract

A computer-implemented method and system are provided for replaying media items. Aspects of the method and system include in response to one of the media items being played, calculating a respective replay score for the media item that affects replay of the corresponding media item; and using the replay score to sort the media items for playing.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method for replaying media items on a media device, comprising:

in response to one of the media items being played, calculating a respective replay score for the media item that affects replay of the corresponding media item; and

using the replay score to sort the media items for playing.

2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 further comprising calculating a respective profile score for each one of the media items.

3. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 further comprising calculating the replay score at least in part as a function of a no repeat factor that affects a period between repeat playings of the media item.

4. The computer-implemented method of claim 3 wherein the no repeat factor is based on a total number of media items in a playlist.

5. The computer-implemented method of claim 3 wherein the no repeat factor is based on a user settable value.

6. The computer-implemented method of claim 5 further comprising calculating the replay score as a function of the respective profile score and the no repeat factor.

7. The computer-implemented method of claim 6 wherein the respective replay score is calculated based on a plurality of category weights, and wherein the no repeat factor comprises one of the category weights.

8. The computer-implemented method of claim 7 further comprising calculating the no repeat factor for the media item as a function of a weighted no repeat (WNR) value.

9. The computer-implemented method of claim 8 further comprising calculating the no repeat factor (NRF) as:

10. The computer-implemented method of claim 9 further comprising calculating the replay score based on a function of the category weights and the NRF.

11. The computer-implemented method of claim 10 further comprising calculating the replay score as:

Replay Score=NRF*(1/10)*(1/(WD+WG+WL+WU))* (WD*WDA+WG*WGA+WL*WLA+WU*WUA)*10

12. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 wherein using the replay score to sort the media items for playing further comprises updating the profile scores of media items with the corresponding replay scores, and re-ordering the media items based on the updated profile scores.

13. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 wherein using the replay score to sort the media items for playing further comprises setting the replay scores equal to the profile scores for the media items that have yet to be played.

14. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 further comprising displaying a plurality of the media items in a playlist along with their profile scores and replay scores.

15. A peer device for a peer-to-peer (P2P) media recommendation system comprising:

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 that functions to;

receive real-time media recommendations of media items from other peer devices;

intersperse the recommendations with an existing playlist of media items designated by a user;

dynamically calculates a replay score for previously played media items that affects replay of the media items; and

use the replay score to sort the media items in the playlist and to play the media items back in score order, thereby ensuring that there are no repetitions of played media items until the user has had exposure to other recommended media items in the playlist.

16. The peer device of claim 15 further comprising calculating a respective profile score for the media items based on user preferences.

17. The peer device of claim 15 further comprising calculating the replay score at least in part as a function of a no repeat factor that affects a period between repeat playings of the media item.

18. The peer device of claim 17 wherein the no repeat factor is based on a total number of media items in a playlist.

19. The peer device of claim 17 wherein the no repeat factor is based on a user settable value.

20. The peer device of claim 19 further comprising calculating the replay score as a function of the respective profile score and the no repeat factor.

21. The peer device of claim 20 wherein the respective replay score is calculated based on a plurality of category weights, and wherein the no repeat factor comprises one of the category weights.

22. The peer device of claim 21 further comprising calculating the no repeat factor for the media item as a function of a weighted no repeat (WNR) value.

23. The peer device of claim 22 further comprising calculating the no repeat factor (NRF) as:

24. The peer device of claim 23 further comprising calculating the replay score based on a function of the category weights and the NRF.

25. The peer device of claim 24 further comprising calculating the replay score as:

Replay Score=NRF*(1/10)*(1/(WD+WG+WL+WU))*(WD*WDA+WG*WGA+WL*WLA+WU*WUA)*10

26. The peer device of claim 15 wherein using the replay score to sort the media items for playing further comprises updating the profile scores of media items with the corresponding replay scores, and re-ordering the media items based on the updated profile scores.

27. The peer device of claim 15 wherein the replay score is used to sort the media items for playing by setting the replay scores equal to the profile scores for the media items that have yet to be played.

28. The peer device of claim 15 wherein the media items are displayed in the playlist along with their profile scores and replay scores.

29. An executable software product stored on a computer-readable medium containing program instructions for replaying media items, the program instructions for:

in response to one of the media items being played, calculating a respective replay score for the media item that affects replay of the corresponding media item; and

using the replay score to sort the media items for playing.