Method and System for Sharing Information About Media Items

• US 20120271894A1
• Filed: 05/29/2012
• Published: 10/25/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 08/02/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Chris Bell, Payam Mirrashidi
• Original Assignee: Chris Bell, Payam Mirrashidi
• Inventors: Mirrashidi, Payam, Bell, Chris
• Application Number:
  US13/482,887
• Publication Number:
  US 20120271894A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/206
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/48 Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/64 Browsing; Visualisation therefor generation of a list or set of audio data G06F16/638
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/68 Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually

Abstract

A method for sharing information between users of a media management application is disclosed. In one embodiment, a server computer receives a media information share request, retrieves artist or album information according to the media information share request, constructs a media message form, and sends the completed media message form to the client computer. The server computer then receives a completed media message form from a client computer, constructs a media message containing artist or album information according to the media message form, extracts a list of e-mail addresses from the media message form, and sends a media message to at least one e-mail address in the list of e-mail addresses.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method for communicating information about media files, comprising:

(a) receiving, at a server computer, a media information share request from a client computer, wherein the media information share request is for artist or album information;

(b) retrieving, at the server computer, artist or album information according to the media information share request;

(c) constructing, at the server computer, a media message form, wherein the media message form contains an artist or album information according to the media information share request and blanks boxes wherein the user can enter one or more recipient e-mail addresses, the user'"'"'s name and e-mail address, and a message to the recipients; and

(d) sending the media message form to the client computer;

(e) receiving, at a server computer, a completed media message form from a client computer, the completed media message for including at least the more or more recipient e-mail addresses and the message to be provides to the recipients, the completed media message may also include the artist or album information;

(f) constructing, at the server computer, a media message, wherein the media message contains at least (i) artist or album information according to the media message form or the completed media message form, and (ii) the message to be provided to the recipients according to the completed media message form;

(g) extracting, at the server computer, a list of one or more e-mail addresses from the completed media message form;

(h) selecting an e-mail address from the list of e-mail addresses;

(i) sending a media message to the selected e-mail address; and

(j) repeating (h)-(i) for each e-mail address in the list of the mail addresses,

wherein the media message comprises an e-mail including hyperlinked information about at least one music album.