APPARATUS, AND ASSOCIATED METHOD, FOR ESTABLISHING A PRIORITIZED MEDIA-FILE PLAYLIST AT MEDIA DEVICE

• US 20120109979A1
• Filed: 11/01/2010
• Published: 05/03/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 11/01/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Research In Motion Limited (Blackberry Limited)
• Original Assignee: Research In Motion Limited (Blackberry Limited)
• Inventors: Bernhardt, Bruce Allen
• Application Number:
  US12/917,105
• Publication Number:
  US 20120109979A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/751
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/435 Filtering based on additional data, e.g. user or group profiles
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/4387 by the use of playlists

Abstract

An apparatus, and an associated method, facilitates selection of a media file for play-out at a media player, such as a media player forming part of a wireless device. Prioritization criteria is used to prioritize a plurality of media files according to a prioritization criteria. And, once prioritized, a playlist is established. The playlist is used in the selection of a media file to be played out at the media-file player.

Claims

1. An apparatus for an electronic device capable of playing-out a digital media file of a plurality of digital media files, said apparatus comprising:

a prioritizer configured to prioritize the plurality of digital media files according to a selected prioritization criteria;

a play lister configured to establish a media-file play list of the digital media files for presentation responsive to prioritization of the digital media files by said prioritizer.

2. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein said prioritizer is configured to prioritize the plurality of digital media files according to a manually-selected prioritization criteria;

3. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein said prioritizer is configured to prioritize the plurality of digital media files according to an automatically-selected prioritization criteria.

4. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the selected prioritization criteria is based upon a prior play-out popularity indicia.

5. The apparatus of claim 4 further comprising a monitor configured to monitor media-file play-out of digital media files at the electronic device to obtain the prior play-out popularity indicia.

6. The apparatus of claim 5 wherein said playlister is configured to disinclude from entry in the media-file playlist a digital media file monitored by said monitor to have played-out at the electronic device.

7. The apparatus of claim 5 wherein said prioritizer is further configured to de-prioritize a digital media file when said monitor indicates the digital media file to have played-out at the electronic device.

8. The apparatus of claim 4 wherein the digital media files are categorized by content-type and wherein said prior play-out popularity indicia includes content-type indicia of prior played-out digital media files.

9. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the digital media content files are further identified by a content-type and wherein the selected prioritization criteria includes a content-type criteria.

10. The apparatus of claim 9 wherein the content-type identifies a content category of an associated digital media content file.

11. The apparatus of claim 7 wherein the content-type identifies a mood-type of an associated digital media content file.

12. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein said prioritizer is configured to prioritize the plurality of digital media files further according to a temporal criteria.

13. A method for facilitating play-out of a digital media file of a plurality of digital media files at an electronic device, said method comprising:

prioritizing the plurality of digital media files according to a selected prioritization criteria; and

establishing a media-file playlist of the digital files for presentation responsive to prioritization of the digital media files during said prioritizing.

14. The method of claim 13 wherein said prioritizing comprises prioritizing the plurality of digital media files according to a manually-selected prioritization criteria.

15. The method of claim 13 wherein said prioritizing comprises prioritizing the plurality of digital media files according to an automatically-selected prioritization criteria.

16. The method of claim 13 wherein said prioritizing comprises prioritizing the plurality of digital media files according to a prior play-out popularity indicia.

17. The method of claim 16 further comprising monitoring media-file play-out of digital media files at the electronic device to obtain the prior play-out popularity indicia.

18. The method of claim 17 wherein the digital media files are categorized by a type indicia and wherein the prior play-out popularity indicia includes the type indicia of prior played-out digital media files.

19. The method of claim 13 wherein said prioritizing further comprises prioritizing the plurality of digital media files according to a temporal criteria.

20. A method for facilitating play-out of digital media files at a wireless device, said method comprising:

establishing a media file playlist according to a prioritized list; and

playing-out the digital media files in an order established during said establishing.