Playing digital content from satellite radio media based on taste profiles
First Claim
1. A portable content-playing device for playing digital content communicated along with related data from at least one satellite, comprisingradio 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 said locally-stored digital content as represented by at least one selected from the group consisting of active indicators of taste and passive indicators of taste,said software programs including a software program for downloading other taste profiles from said at least one satellite,said software programs including a software program for computing similarity values between said local taste profile and downloaded other taste profiles,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 that user to enable that user to have the experience of a digital content channel specifically geared towards that user'"'"'s individual tastes.
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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 tastes of the user of the device) and taste profiles downloaded from one or more of the satellites, and this information is used in choosing the content of the virtual channel.
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19 Claims
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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 said locally-stored digital content as represented by at least one selected from the group consisting of active indicators of taste and passive indicators of taste, said software programs including a software program for downloading other taste profiles from said at least one satellite, said software programs including a software program for computing similarity values between said local taste profile and downloaded other taste profiles, 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 that user to enable that user to have the experience of a digital content channel specifically geared towards that user'"'"'s individual tastes.
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19. An entertainment system comprising
at least one satellite for communicating digital content and related data and a plurality of portable content-playing devices comprising at least one selected from the group consisting of one-way nodes and two-way nodes, said portable content-playing devices including radio communication hardware for receiving data from said at least one satellite, said portable content-playing devices additionally including a central processing unit and supporting hardware such as 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 said locally-stored digital content as represented by at least one selected from the group consisting of active indicators of taste and passive indicators of taste, said software programs including a software program for downloading other taste profiles from said at least one satellite, said software programs including a software program for computing similarity values between said local taste profile and downloaded taste profiles, 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 that user to enable that user to have the experience of a digital content channel specifically geared towards that user'"'"'s individual tastes.
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