PERSONALIZATION CONTENT SHARING SYSTEM AND METHOD

• US 20110010630A1
• Filed: 07/19/2010
• Published: 01/13/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 02/10/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: InfoMedia Services Limited
• Original Assignee: InfoMedia Services Limited
• Inventors: Medved, Jonathan William, GOLDFARB, DAVID ELLIOT
• Application Number:
  US12/838,523
• Publication Number:
  US 20110010630A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/733
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/04 Real-time or near real-time messaging, e.g. instant messaging [IM]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1094 Inter-user-equipment sessions transfer or sharing
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1096 Supplementary features, e.g. call forwarding or call holding systems providing special services or facilities to telephony subscribers H04M3/42
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/57 Arrangements for indicating or recording the number of the calling subscriber at the called subscriber's set at the operator set in a manual exchange H04M5/20
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72403 with means for local support of applications that increase the functionality
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72442 for playing music files
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72448 with means for adapting the functionality of the device according to specific conditions
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 19/04 the ringing-current being generated at the substations
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/42017 Customized ring-back tones
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/06 Selective distribution of broadcast services, e.g. multimedia broadcast multicast service [MBMS]; Services to user groups; One-way selective calling services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/08 User group management
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/20 Services signaling; Auxiliary data signalling, i.e. transmitting data via a non-traffic channel
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/21 for social networking applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/10 Connection setup
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/18 Processing of user or subscriber data, e.g. subscribed services, user preferences or user profiles; Transfer of user or subscriber data

Abstract

A method includes enabling a user to define his/her buddies from among members of a community and enabling the user to select media content to be played on devices of his/her buddies. Another method includes providing media content chosen by a first user to be played by a media player on a device of a second user in response to an identification of the first user.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

providing media content chosen by a first user to be played by a media player on a device of a second user in response to an identification of said first user.

17. A method comprising:

enabling a user to define his/her buddies from among members of a community; and

enabling said user to select media content to be played on devices of his/her buddies.

26. A device comprising:

a media content storage unit to store media content associated with buddies of a user of said device; and

a media player to play media content of one buddy upon a triggering event related to said user and said one buddy.