GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE SYSTEM FOR ALLOWING MANAGEMENT OF A MEDIA ITEM PLAYLIST BASED ON A PREFERENCE SCORING SYSTEM

• US 20090055759A1
• Filed: 05/17/2007
• 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
• Granted Patent: US 8,327,266 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/764
• 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: G11B 27/34 Indicating arrangements indicating means incorporated in magazine or cassette G11B23/046 and G11B23/0875; indicating measured values in general G01D
• 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 65/40 Support for services or applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/403 Arrangements for multi-party communication, e.g. for conferences data switching systems for conference H04L12/18; arrangements for connecting several subscribers to a common circuit, i.e. affording conference facilities H04M3/56; television conferencing systems H04N7/15
• 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

Graphical user interfaces (GUIs) for a peer device on a peer-to-peer (P2P) network are disclosed. A client application executing on the peer device provides and enables the GUIs. One of the GUIs may display a media item playlist. The user manages the media items displayed on the media item playlist by utilizing sorting criteria. The media item playlist displays a list of the users subscribing to the P2P network, the title of and information concerning media items recommended by the users and media items stored locally on the peer device, and a score for each media item on the media item playlist. The score may be determined by applying to the media items preferences defined by information provided by the user of the peer device, a profile developed from the defined preferences, and other information provided by the user. The user of the peer device provides the information to the peer device using other GUIs provided and enabled by the client application.

Claims

1. A user interface generated by a client application executing on a microprocessor-based device, comprising:

a media item playlist for managing media items, the media item playlist comprising a plurality of columns of information associated with the media items, comprising;

a user column comprising a list of users subscribed to the client application;

a title column comprising a plurality of different media item titles for a plurality of associated media items, wherein the plurality of associated media items comprises at least one media item recommended by at least one of the users and at least one media item stored locally; and

a score column comprising a score for the plurality of associated media items, wherein the score is determined by applying user-defined preferences to the plurality of associated media items, and wherein the plurality of different media item titles is displayed based on at least the score and a sorting criterion.

2. The user interface of claim 1, wherein the at least one media item recommended by the at least one of the users comprises the media item recently played during a defined period of time.

3. The user interface of claim 1, wherein the at least one media item recommended by the at least one of the users is limited to an established number of the media items.

4. The user interface of claim 1, wherein the plurality of associated media items play in a play order based on the order in which the plurality of different media item titles are positioned on the media item playlist.

5. The user interface of claim 4, wherein the play order changes if the order in which the plurality of different media item titles displayed changes.

6. The user interface of claim 1, further comprising:

an artist column comprising at least one artist associated with one the plurality of associated media items;

a genre column comprising at least one genre categories associated with one of the plurality of associated media items;

a decade column comprising the beginning year of a decade, wherein a date of release of the one of the plurality of associated media items occurred within the decade; and

an availability column comprising information regarding a location of one of the plurality of associated media items.

7. The user interface of claim 6, wherein the sorting criterion is associated with one of the plurality of columns and the media item playlist is sorted by selecting the associated one of the plurality of columns.

8. A user interface generated by a client application executing on a microprocessor-based device, comprising:

a plurality of selectors comprising;

a custom selector associated with one of a plurality of preferences, wherein the custom selector is used to select a weight of a category associated with one of the plurality of preferences; and

a profile selector associated with one of the plurality of preferences, wherein by selecting the profile selector, the weight for the category associated with one of the plurality of preferences is determined from a user profile.

9. The user interface of claim 8, wherein the plurality of selectors further comprises a category weighting selector, wherein the category weighting selector is used to select the weight of the category associated with one of the plurality of preferences.

10. The user interface of claim 8, wherein the category associated with the one of the plurality of preferences comprises an attribute, and wherein the plurality of selectors further comprises an attribute weighting selector, wherein the attribute weighting selector is used to select the weight of the attribute associated with the category associated with the one of the plurality of preferences.

11. A user interface generated by a client application executing on a microprocessor-based device, comprising:

a plurality of selectors comprising;

a maximum media items selector for establishing a maximum number of recommendations in a recommendations queue; and

a plurality of remove media items selectors for selecting a basis for removal of a recommendation from the recommendations queue.

12. The user interface of claim 11, wherein the basis for removal of the recommendation from the recommendations queue is a basis comprised from the group consisting of:

score, timestamp, and current sort.

13. A user interface generated by a client application executing on a microprocessor-based device, comprising:

a plurality of selectors comprising;

an auto-download media item selector for establishing a first threshold score, wherein a media item with a score at least as high as the first threshold score is automatically downloaded to a download queue; and

an auto-download preview selector for establishing a second threshold score, wherein a preview of a media item with a score at least as high as the second threshold score and less than the first threshold score is automatically downloaded to the download queue.

14. The user interface of claim 13, wherein the plurality of selectors further comprises a maximum download sessions selector for specifying a maximum number of open sockets for downloading a maximum number of download sessions.

15. The user interface of claim 13, wherein the plurality of selectors further comprises:

a maximum download attempts selector for establishing a maximum number of attempts to download the media item; and

a retry interval selector for establishing a time interval between the attempts to download the media item.

16. The user interface of claim 13, wherein the plurality of selectors further comprises a flush on rescoring selector, wherein upon selecting the flush on rescoring selector the download queue is emptied of the media items in the download queue upon a media item playlist being re-sorted.

17. The user interface of claim 13, wherein the plurality of selectors further comprises an omit media items selector, wherein upon selecting the omit media items selector, the media item in the download queue is omitted from the download queue.