Methods and systems for repairing playlists

• US 7,159,000 B2
• Filed: 03/21/2002
• Issued: 01/02/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 03/21/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Plastina, Daniel, Colville, Scott
• Primary Examiner(s): WASSUM, LUKE S
• Application Number:
  US10/103,682
• Publication Number:
  US 20030182255A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,748 Days
• Field of Search: 707/1, 707/100, 707/3, 707/104.1, 707/10
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/635 Filtering based on additional data, e.g. user or group profiles
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/639 using playlists
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/68 Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/44222 Analytics of user selections, e.g. selection of programs or purchase activity monitoring of user selections in data processing systems G06F11/34; arrangements for monitoring the user's behaviour or opinions in broadcast systems H04H60/33
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4788 communicating with other users, e.g. chatting arrangements for providing for computer conferences, e.g. chat rooms, to substation in data switching networks H04L12/1813; distributed application using peer-to-peer [P2P] networks H04L67/104
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4825 using a list of items to be played back in a given order, e.g. playlists
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4826 using recommendation lists, e.g. of programs or channels sorted out according to their score
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8106 involving special audio data, e.g. different tracks for different languages
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/84 Generation or processing of descriptive data, e.g. content descriptors systems specially adapted for using meta-information in broadcast systems H04H60/73
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99945 Object-oriented database structure processing
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99948 Application of database or data structure, e.g. distributed, multimedia, or image

Abstract

Various systems and methods described above permit a user'"'"'s content experience (e.g. music playing experience) to be monitored and for metadata describing this experience to be collected. This metadata can be dynamically updated as a user experiences media content and then used to impart to the user a personalized experience that is tailored to that specific user. A user'"'"'s metadata can, in some instances, provided across a wide variety of computing devices on which the user may experience the media content, thus standardizing the user'"'"'s personalized media experience. In addition, intelligent or “smart” playlists can be provided which, in some instances, can be dynamically and automatically updated to reflect current user experiences, thus providing a highly personalized and enjoyable content experience.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

a computer-readable media;

computer-readable instructions on the computer readable media which, when executed produce;

an automatically adaptive playlist;

the playlist being generated from an associated playlist file;

the playlist file being configured with data for automatically re-defining a path to media content associated with the playlist; and

in an event a first path defined in the playlist file cannot be followed to the associated media content, the instructions operating on said data to re-define the first path to the media content.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the playlist is adaptive responsive to a user'"'"'s listening habits.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the playlist is adaptive responsive to multiple users'"'"' listening habits.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the playlist is configured to be periodically and automatically regenerated.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the playlist describes music content.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the playlist is adaptive without requiring any activity on the part of a user to maintain the playlist.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the playlist is extensible.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the playlist is extensible by a third party.