Method for sharing and searching playlists

• US 8,346,798 B2
• Filed: 12/21/2005
• Issued: 01/01/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 02/28/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Yahoo! Inc. (Apollo Global Management, Inc.)
• Inventors: Brown, David E., Sutton, Lori Ann, Schiro, Pierre, Stelzmuller, Christa Maria, Sahay, Siddhartha S., Baird, Daniel, Korman, Adam, Toth, III, Alexander Stephen, Ramachandra, Poorna Chandra Gowda Bannikuppe, Spiegelman, Michael, Suresh, Bipin
• Primary Examiner(s): Ly, Anh
• Application Number:
  US11/315,419
• Publication Number:
  US 20060195479A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,568 Days
• Field of Search: 707/3, 707/104.1, 707/5, 707/100, 707/102, 707/802, 707/999.3, 707/803, 707/758, 707/706, 707/723, 707/748, 707/770, 707/E17.071, 707/E17.084, 707/783, 707/785, 709/203, 725/34, 725/53, 725/86
• US Class Current: 707/770
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/273 Asynchronous replication or reconciliation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/3344 using natural language analysis
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/4387 by the use of playlists
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/4393 Multimedia presentations, e.g. slide shows, multimedia albums
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/637 Administration of user profiles, e.g. generation, initialization, adaptation or distribution
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/639 using playlists
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/10 Protecting distributed programs or content, e.g. vending or licensing of copyrighted material protection in video systems or pay television H04N7/16 ; Digital rights management [DRM]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/6236 between heterogeneous systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2213/0038 System on Chip
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2216/01 Automatic library building
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2113 Multi-level security, e.g. mandatory access control
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2137 Time limited access, e.g. to a computer or data
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/1235 with control of digital rights management [DRM]
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/386 using messaging services or messaging apps using mobile network messaging services for payment, e.g. SMS G06Q20/3255
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/06 Buying, selling or leasing transactions
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 20/00086 Circuits for prevention of unauthorised reproduction or copying, e.g. piracy indicating unauthorised use of record carriers in general G11B23/28; scrambling for television signal recording H04N5/913; network architectures or network protocols for network security H04L63/00; cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for secret or secure communication H04L9/00
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/105 of operating discs
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/34 : Indicating arrangements indicating means incorporated in magazine or cassette G11B23/046 and G11B23/0875; indicating measured values in general G01D
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/1822 : Conducting the conference, e.g. admission, detection, selection or grouping of participants, correlating users to one or more conference sessions, prioritising transmission
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2463/101 : applying security measures for digital rights management data processing systems or methods, specially adapted for commerce, e.g. marketing, shopping, billing, auctions or e-commerce G06Q30/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/04 : Real-time or near real-time messaging, e.g. instant messaging [IM]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0263 : Rule management
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/101 : Access control lists [ACL]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/105 : Multiple levels of security
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1101 : Session protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/612 : for unicast
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/06 : specially adapted for file transfer, e.g. file transfer protocol [FTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 : User profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/34 : involving the movement of software or configuration parameters network booting or remote initial program loading [RIPL] G06F9/4416
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/535 : Tracking the activity of the user network monitoring arrangements H04L43/00; recording of computer activity G06F11/34
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/62 : Establishing a time schedule for servicing the requests
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/63 : Routing a service request depending on the request content or context
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2541 : Rights Management protecting software against unauthorised usage in a vending or licensing environment G06F21/10; security in data switching network management H04L41/28; security management or policies for network security H04L63/20; access security in wireless networks H04W12/08
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4126 : The peripheral being portable, e.g. PDAs or mobile phones
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/41407 : embedded in a portable device, e.g. video client on a mobile phone, PDA, laptop constructional details of equipment or arrangements specially adapted for portable computer application G06F1/1626; arrangements specially adapted for mobile receivers in broadcast systems H04H20/57
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4331 : Caching operations, e.g. of an advertisement for later insertion during playback
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4622 : Retrieving content or additional data from different sources, e.g. from a broadcast channel and the Internet web site content organization and management for information retrieval from the Internet G06F16/958; transmission by internet of broadcast information H04H60/82; stock exchange data over packet-switching network H04L12/1804; push services including data channel over packet-switching network H04L12/1859
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4627 : Rights management associated to the content security in data switching network management H04L41/28; security management or policies for network security H04L63/20; access security in wireless networks H04W12/08
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47214 : for content reservation or setting reminders; for requesting event notification, e.g. of sport results or stock market stock exchange data over packet-switching network H04L12/1804; push services over packet-switching network H04L12/1859; notification of incoming messages in packet switching networks H04L51/224
• 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 21/658 : Transmission by the client directed to the server
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8113 : comprising music, e.g. song in MP3 format
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8355 : involving usage data, e.g. number of copies or viewings allowed
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/17318 : Direct or substantially direct transmission and handling of requests
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/913 : Multimedia

Abstract

The present disclosure provides a method for making a playlist available to the public. In another embodiment, the present disclosure provides a method for creating a playlist comprising user-defined descriptor information. In another embodiment, the present disclosure provides a method for searching for such public playlists.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method of identifying a published playlist comprising:

receiving, by at least one processing unit and from a searching entity, search criteria representing a desire to identify a playlist by a search, the search comprising a search of user-defined playlist descriptor information;

accessing, by the at least one processing unit, a playlist storage, said playlist storage comprising user published and unpublished playlists, some or all of said published and unpublished playlists each comprising title, artist and genre information for each of the playlist'"'"'s media files in a plurality of playlist fields, each playlist further comprising a title field containing a title of the playlist and another playlist field containing said user-defined playlist descriptor information, said playlist field containing said user-defined playlist descriptor information comprising user-provided text describing one or more of the user'"'"'s understanding, perception, and feelings toward the playlist in addition to and different from said title field containing said title of the playlist;

searching, by the at least one processing unit, for published playlists of said playlist storage, said search comprising searching one or more playlist fields including searching the user-defined playlist descriptor field containing said user-defined playlist descriptor information to identify a desired playlist result set comprising user published playlists with user-defined playlist descriptor information relevant to said search criteria, at least one field of the one or more fields having an assigned weight for use in determining which user published playlists to include in the playlist result set;

communicating, by the at least one processing unit, said desired playlist result set to said searching entity, wherein said desired playlist result set comprises a playlist identifier comprising a pointer, metadata associated with said desired playlist results set, and a permission level for accessing said desired playlist results, wherein said permission level is associated with an online media service; and

synchronizing, upon receiving an edit to said playlist, said user-defined playlist descriptor information and said associated playlist information with said playlist storage.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein said searching entity comprises a user located on a computing device.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein said searching entity comprises a software program.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein said search criteria comprises a mood associated with said desired playlist.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein said search criteria comprises a situation associated with said desired playlist.

6. The method of claim 1 wherein said search criteria comprises an event associated with said desired playlist.

7. The method of claim 1 wherein said playlist storage is located on a server.

8. The method of claim 1 wherein said playlist storage is located on the Internet.

9. The method of claim 1 wherein said playlist storage is located as a part of an online media service.

10. The method of claim 1 wherein said desired playlist result set comprises a playlist identifier.

11. The method of claim 10 wherein said identifier is a uniform resource locator.

12. The method of claim 10 wherein said identifier is a universal resource indicator.

13. The method of claim 1 wherein said desired playlist results set comprises an id associated with said desired playlist.

14. The method of claim 1 further comprising facilitating the display of said desired playlist result set at a computing device associated with said searching entity.

37. One or more computer-readable storage media storing computer-readable instructions thereon which, when executed by one or more computing devices, implements the method of claim 1.

15. A computer-implemented method of creating a searchable playlist comprising:

receiving, by at least one processing unit, at least one media file selection indicating the desire to include at least one media file in a playlist;

receiving, by the at least one processing unit, user-defined playlist descriptor information associated with said playlist, said user-defined playlist descriptor information comprising user-provided text describing one or more of the user'"'"'s understanding, perception, and feelings toward the playlist in addition to and different from a title of the playlist;

receiving, by the at least one processing unit, an input indicating the desire to designate said playlist as public, said public designation causing said user-defined playlist descriptor information and information associated with said playlist to be searchable by a searching entity, said associated playlist information comprising title, artist and genre information for each of the playlist'"'"'s media files and the title of the playlist;

creating, by the at least one processing unit, a playlist comprising, for each media file selection, title, artist and genre information contained in a plurality of fields of said playlist, said playlist further comprising the title field containing the title of said playlist and another playlist field containing said user-defined playlist descriptor information, said user-defined playlist descriptor playlist field containing said user-defined playlist descriptor information is in addition to and different from said title field containing said title of said playlist; and

communicating, by the at least one processing unit, said created playlist to a playlist storage of published and unpublished playlists, some or all of the published and unpublished playlists each comprising said user-defined playlist descriptor information field, said playlist storage storing said playlist comprising said user-defined playlist descriptor information field containing said user-defined playlist descriptor information can be searched by a searching entity to identify one or more published playlists in a search, the search comprising a search of said user-defined playlist descriptor information field containing said user-defined playlist descriptor information, one or more of the user-defined playlist descriptor information, title, artist, genre and playlist title having an assigned weight for use by the searching entity in identifying the one or more published playlists in the search, wherein said created playlist comprises a playlist identifier comprising a pointer, metadata associated with said created playlist, and a permission level for accessing said created playlist, wherein said permission level is associated with an online media service; and

synchronizing, upon receiving an edit to said created playlist, said user-defined playlist descriptor information and said associated playlist information with said playlist storage.

16. The method of claim 15 wherein said playlist storage is located on a server.

17. The method of claim 15 wherein said playlist storage is located on the Internet.

18. The method of claim 15 wherein said playlist storage is located as a part of an online media service.

19. The method of claim 15 wherein said playlist information comprises a rating associated with said media file.

20. The method of claim 15 wherein said searching entity comprises a user.

21. The method of claim 15 wherein said searching entity comprises a software program.

22. The method of claim 15 wherein said user developed text is searchable by search input criteria.

23. The method of claim 22 wherein said search input criteria comprises a mood associated with said playlist.

24. The method of claim 22 wherein said search input criteria comprises a situation associated with said desired playlist.

25. The method of claim 22 wherein said search criteria input comprises an event associated with said desired playlist.

26. The method of claim 15 wherein said user defined text comprises a mood associated with said playlist.

27. The method of claim 15 wherein said user developed text comprises a situation associated with said playlist.

28. The method of claim 15 wherein said user developed text comprises an event associated with said playlist.

29. The method of claim 15 wherein said user-defined playlist descriptor information and said associated playlist information comprise a format comprising a set of searchable field entries.

30. The method of claim 29 wherein said set of searchable field entries comprise a portion of said user developed text.

31. The method of claim 29 wherein said set of searchable field entries comprise all of said user developed text.

32. The method of claim 29 wherein said set of searchable field entries comprise a portion of said associated playlist information.

33. The method of claim 15 further comprising synchronizing, upon receiving an edit to said playlist, said user-defined playlist descriptor information and said associated playlist information with said playlist storage.

34. The method of claim 33 wherein said edit comprises an input indicating the desire to designate said playlist as private.

35. The method of claim 15 wherein said storing said user-defined playlist descriptor information and said associated playlist information into a searchable format comprises serializing said user-defined playlist descriptor information and said associated playlist information.

36. One or more computer-readable storage media storing computer-readable instructions thereon which, when executed by one or more computing devices, implements the method of claim 15.