METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING PLAYLISTS

• US 20120271893A1
• Filed: 05/07/2012
• Published: 10/25/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 11/30/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: R2 Solutions LLC (Acacia Research Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Yahoo! Inc. (Apollo Global Management, Inc.)
• Inventors: Ott, Edward Stanley IV
• Granted Patent: US 9,396,193 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/206
• 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

The present invention relates to a computerized method and systems for managing feeds so that a user'"'"'s playlists may be automatically updated in accordance with a user'"'"'s desired media preferences.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

receiving, at a computing device on a network, a first request to add a feed to a playlist, the feed comprising a plurality of episodes;

obtaining, via the computing device, first information relating to a first one of the episodes of the feed; and

associating, via the computing device, the first information with the playlist of the user.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

obtaining second information relating to a second one of the episodes of the feed;

associating the second information with the playlist of the user.

3. The method of claim 2, further comprising:

automatically disassociating the first information from the playlist.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the automatically disassociating step is concomitant to the obtaining second information step.

5. The method of claim 3, further comprising:

automatically populating a portion of the playlist with at least a portion of the first information in response to the associating step.

6. The method of claim 5, further comprising:

automatically removing the at least a portion of the first information from the playlist in response to the associating the second information step.

7. The method of claim 3, wherein the automatically disassociating step comprises:

comparing data associated the first one of the episodes to episode removal criteria; and

completing the automatically removing step when the data are in accordance with the episode removal criteria.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the data are one or more of episode creation date data, episode download date data, episode access date data, episode review data, episode author data, episode character data, episode distributor data, episode volume data, episode number data, episode file size data and feed data.

9. The method of claim 7, wherein the data comprises the number of episodes of the media episodes associated with a portion of the playlist.

10. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

indicating that the first one of the episodes is available for review.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the indicating step comprises:

sending an e-mail to the user.

12. The method of claim 10, wherein the indicating step comprises:

displaying a message on a graphical user interface.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the displaying step occurs concomitant to activation of software associated with the playlist.

14. The method of claim 12, wherein the displaying step occurs after the obtaining first information step.

15. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

subscribing to the feed, thereby creating a subscription;

wherein the obtaining step comprises;

requesting access to the subscription; and

querying the feed to determine whether the first one of the episodes is available for distribution.

16. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

prior to the associating step, defining a user-selected portion of the playlist for receiving ones of the episodes.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein the associating step comprises:

automatically associating at least a portion of the first information with the user-selected portion of the playlist.

18. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

accessing, by the user, the first one of the episodes.

19. The method of claim 18, wherein the accessing comprises:

downloading the first one of the episodes to the user'"'"'s computer; and

after the downloading step, reviewing the first one of the episodes.

20. The method of claim 18, wherein the accessing comprises:

streaming the first one of the episodes to the user.

21. The method of claim 18, further comprising:

after the accessing, automatically removing the first information from the playlist.

22. A system comprising:

a processor;

a memory;

a playlist stored in said memory; and

a playlist management module implemented by the processor, wherein the playlist management module is operable to associate first episode information of a first episode with the playlist, and wherein the playlist management module is further operable to automatically disassociate the first episode information from the playlist when the first episode is in accordance with episode removal criteria.

23. The system of claim 22, wherein the playlist management module comprises computer executable instructions operable to associate the first episode information with the playlist.

24. The system of claim 23, wherein the playlist management module comprises computer executable instruction operable to disassociate the first episode information from the playlist.

25. The system of claim 22, wherein the playlist and the playlist management module are located on single computerized device.

26. The system of claim 22, wherein the playlist is located on a first computerized device, and wherein the playlist management module is located on second computerized device, separate from the first computerized device.

27. The system of claim 26, wherein the first computerized device is a portable computerized device.

28. The system of claim 26, wherein the first computerized device is a subscription server.

29. A computer readable storage medium tangibly encoded with computer-executable instructions, which when executed by a computing device, perform a method comprising:

receiving a first request to add a feed to a playlist, the feed comprising a plurality of episodes;

obtaining first information relating to a first one of the episodes of the feed; and

associating the first information with the playlist of the user.

30. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 29, further comprising:

obtaining second information relating to a second one of the episodes of the feed;

associating the second information with the playlist of the user; and

after the associating step, automatically disassociating the first information from the playlist.

31. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 30, wherein the automatically disassociating step is concomitant to the obtaining second information step.

32. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 29, further comprising:

automatically populating a portion of the playlist with at least a portion of the first information in response to the associating step.

33. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 32, further comprising:

automatically removing the at least a portion of the first information from the playlist in response to the associating the second information step.