Providing multiple media items to a consumer via a simplified consumer interaction

• US 8,356,039 B2
• Filed: 12/21/2006
• Issued: 01/15/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 12/21/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: R2 Solutions LLC (Acacia Research Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Yahoo! Inc. (Apollo Global Management, Inc.)
• Inventors: Beaupre, Todd, Decarlo, James
• Primary Examiner(s): Beausoliel, Jr., Robert
• Assistant Examiner(s): ALLEN, NICHOLAS E
• Application Number:
  US11/614,938
• Publication Number:
  US 20080154955A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,217 Days
• Field of Search: 707/754, 707/999.107
• US Class Current: 707/754
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/41 Indexing; Data structures therefor; Storage structures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/437 Administration of user profiles, e.g. generation, initialisation, adaptation, distribution
• 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 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0603 Catalogue ordering

Abstract

Methods and systems of providing media to a media consumer are disclosed herein. A media rating for at least one media item can be received from a consumer and stored on a consumer profile. Using a consumer interaction, the media consumer can request to import all available media having a consumer rating higher than a predetermined threshold to an online media library of the consumer. In another embodiment, using a consumer interaction, the media consumer can request to add to an online music library all media items associated with an artist, a genre, or other media item attribute.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

receiving from a media consumer a media rating for at least one media item, the media rating being indicative of the consumer'"'"'s opinion of the at least one media item, the media rating and the media identifier being responsive to the consumer'"'"'s behavior related to the at least one media item;

storing, in a data storage, the media rating and a media identifier of the at least one media item as part of a consumer profile, said media rating and said media identifier being adjusted responsive to the monitored consumer behavior;

receiving from the media consumer a consumer interaction that requests all available media having a consumer rating, stored in the consumer profile, higher than a consumer set predetermined threshold;

retrieving the media rating and the media identifier from the consumer profile to determine whether the media rating of the at least one media item is higher than the predetermined threshold; and

providing the at least one media item to the consumer based on the media identifier retrieved from the consumer profile, said providing occurs if it is determined that the rating of the at least one media item is greater than the predetermined threshold;

wherein receiving the consumer interaction comprises;

receiving a first consumer selection that establishes the predetermined threshold; and

receiving a second consumer selection of a user interface button in order to import the available media to an online media library of the consumer.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the media rating is received at first Internet media service, and the at least one media item is provided at a second Internet media service.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the first Internet media service is a non on-demand media delivery service, and the second Internet media service is an on-demand media delivery service.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein the first Internet media service is an Internet radio station, and the second Internet media service is a media subscription-based media service.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein providing the at least one media item to the consumer comprises adding the at least one media item to an online media library of the consumer.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein adding the at least one media item to the online media library of the consumer comprises storing on a consumer profile a pointer to a media file corresponding to the at least one media item.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein receiving the consumer interaction comprises receiving a single consumer selection of a user interface button that allows the user to import the available media to an online media library of the consumer.

8. A system comprising:

a plurality of processors;

a ratings module, implemented by one of the plurality of processors, that receives from a media consumer a media rating for at least one media item, the media rating being indicative of the consumer'"'"'s opinion of the at least one media item, the media rating and media identifier on the consumer profile being responsive to the consumer'"'"'s behavior related to the at least one media item, the ratings module further configured to store the media rating and a media identifier of the at least one media item on a consumer profile the media rating and media identifier being adjusted responsive to the monitored consumer behavior;

a user interface module, implemented by one of the plurality of processors, that receives from the media consumer a consumer interaction representing a request to retrieve all available media having a consumer rating, stored in the consumer profile, higher than a consumer set predetermined threshold;

a search engine, implemented by one of the plurality of processors, that retrieves the media rating and the media identifier from the consumer profile to determine whether a rating of the at least one media item is higher than a predetermined threshold; and

a media delivery module, implemented by one of the plurality of processors, that provides the at least one media item to the consumer based on the media identifier retrieved from the consumer profile, said providing occurs if it is determined that the rating of the at least one media item is greater than the predetermined threshold;

wherein receiving the consumer interaction comprises;

receiving a first consumer selection that establishes the predetermined threshold; and

receiving a second consumer selection of a user interface button in order to import the available media to an online media library of the consumer.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein the media rating is received at first Internet media service, and the at least one media item is provided at a second a second Internet media service.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein the first Internet media service is an Internet radio station, and the second Internet media service is a media subscription-based service.

11. The system of claim 8, wherein the media delivery module is configured to add at least one media item an online library of the consumer.

12. The system of claim 8, wherein the consumer interaction comprises:

a first consumer selection that establishes the predetermined threshold; and

a second consumer selection of a user interface button that allows the user to import the available media to an online media library of the consumer.

13. The system of claim 8, wherein the consumer interaction comprises a single consumer selection of a user interface button that allows the user to import the available media to an online media library of the consumer.