Playing digital content from satellite radio media based on taste profiles

• US 20110143650A1
• Filed: 08/23/2010
• Published: 06/16/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 01/27/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Emergent Music LLC
• Original Assignee: Emergent Music LLC
• Inventors: Robinson, Gary
• Granted Patent: US 8,190,082 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/3.02
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 15/16 Combinations of two or more digital computers each having at least an arithmetic unit, a program unit and a register, e.g. for a simultaneous processing of several programs coordinating program control therefor G06F9/52; in regulating and control system G05B
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/00 Administration; Management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/107 Computer-aided management of electronic mailing [e-mailing]
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• 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 12/1827 Network arrangements for conference optimisation or adaptation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/185 with management of multicast group membership
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/4625 Single bridge functionality, e.g. connection of two networks over a single bridge
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/00 User-to-user messaging in packet-switching networks, transmitted according to store-and-forward or real-time protocols, e.g. e-mail
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/52 for supporting social networking services

Abstract

A portable content-playing device which automatically constructs a virtual channel of content consistent with the tastes of the user of the device, where the content originates from one or more satellites. The portable device contains software for computing similarity values between a local taste profile (representative of the songs tastes of the user of the device) by making use of downloaded pattern-matching technology representing each song, and this information is used in choosing the content of the virtual channel.

Claims

1. A portable content-playing device for playing digital content communicated along with related data from at least one satellite, comprising

radio communication hardware for receiving data from said at least one satellite,

a central processing unit and supporting hardware including random access memory and persistent storage,

said persistent storage storing data including locally-stored digital content and taste profile data and software programs,

said taste profile data including a local taste profile representing the tastes associated with at least one selected from the group consisting of active indicators of taste and passive indicators of taste, said indicators indicating the tastes of a user of said portable content-playing-device,

said software programs including a software program for downloading pattern-matching technologies from said at least one satellite,

said software programs including a software program for executing said pattern-matching technologies thereby computing similarity values between said local taste profile and at least one selected from the group consisting of songs and videos,

said software programs including a software program for deciding which digital content to play based upon said similarity values,

whereby a virtual channel is constructed automatically by inference from said local taste profile and downloaded other taste profiles for the benefit of said user to enable said user to have the experience of a digital content channel specifically geared towards that user'"'"'s individual tastes.

2. The portable content-playing device of claim 1 wherein said pattern-matching technologies comprise a plurality of neural nets, each one of said neural nets corresponding to a song or a video.

3. A portable content-playing device for playing digital content communicated along with related data from at least one satellite, comprising

radio communication hardware for receiving data from said at least one satellite,

a central processing unit and supporting hardware including random access memory and persistent storage,

said persistent storage storing data including locally-stored digital content and taste profile data and software programs,

said taste profile data including a local taste profile comprising identifiers of content items liked by a user of said portable content-playing-device,

said software programs including a software program for downloading lists of identifiers of recommended content items sharing similar attributes with content items downloaded from said at least one satellite,

said software programs including a software program for acquiring at least one of said recommended content items associated with said identifiers of content items liked by a user of said portable content-playing-device,

whereby a virtual channel is constructed automatically by inference from said local taste profile and downloaded other taste profiles for the benefit of said user to enable said user to have the experience of a digital content channel specifically geared towards that user'"'"'s individual tastes.