System and method for automatically and graphically associating programmatically-generated media item recommendations related to a user's socially recommended media items
First Claim
1. A method for providing social and programmatically-generated media item recommendations to a user on a user interface, comprising the steps of:
- displaying a user-selected media item recommendation in a focus area on a user interface of a display device;
determining a social media item recommendation list comprising one or more social media item recommendations;
determining a programmatically-generated media item recommendation list comprising one or more programmatically-generated media item recommendations;
displaying the social media item recommendation list in a first area on the user interface; and
displaying the programmatically-generated media item recommendation list in a second area on the user interface different from the first area wherein the first area is a first axis, and the second area is a second axis and wherein the programmatically-generated media item recommendation list in the second axis intersects the focus area on the user interface.
7 Assignments
0 Petitions
Accused Products
Abstract
A system and method for automatically, programmatically generating media item recommendations on a graphical user interface (GUI) based on a friend media item recommendation selected by a user. In the preferred embodiment, a selected media item recommendation is displayed in the GUI. Received friend media item recommendations are displayed in a list in relevance order adjacent to the selected media item. A programmatically-generated media item recommendation list is automatically generated based on relevance to the selected media item and displayed in another adjacent area to the selected media item recommendation. In this manner, a user can easily play the selected media item recommendation, and then browse the friend media item recommendations and the automatically updated programmatically-generated media item recommendations, which are both provided in their own respective adjacent areas, in order of closest relationship to the selected media item recommendation, at anytime.
-
Citations
44 Claims
-
1. A method for providing social and programmatically-generated media item recommendations to a user on a user interface, comprising the steps of:
-
displaying a user-selected media item recommendation in a focus area on a user interface of a display device; determining a social media item recommendation list comprising one or more social media item recommendations; determining a programmatically-generated media item recommendation list comprising one or more programmatically-generated media item recommendations; displaying the social media item recommendation list in a first area on the user interface; and displaying the programmatically-generated media item recommendation list in a second area on the user interface different from the first area wherein the first area is a first axis, and the second area is a second axis and wherein the programmatically-generated media item recommendation list in the second axis intersects the focus area on the user interface. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24)
-
-
25. A system providing a media application for providing social and programmatically-generated media item recommendations to a user on a user interface, comprising:
-
a system executing a media application; wherein the media application is adapted to; display a user-selected media item recommendation in a focus area on a user interface; determine a social media item recommendation list comprising one or more social media item recommendations; determine a programmatically-generated media item recommendation list comprising one or more programmatically-generated media item recommendations; display the social media item recommendation list in a first area on the user interface; and display the programmatically-generated media item recommendation list in a second area on the user interface different from the first area wherein the first area is a first axis, and the second area is a second axis and wherein the programmatically-generated media item recommendation list in the second axis intersects the focus area on the user interface. - View Dependent Claims (26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31)
-
-
32. A user interface generated by a media application executing on a microprocessor-based user device, comprising:
- a focus area;
a user-selected media item recommendation displayed in the focus area;a social media item recommendation list comprising one or more social media item recommendations in a first area; and a programmatically-generated media item recommendation list comprising one or more programmatically-generated media item recommendations in a second area different from the first area wherein the first area is a first axis, and the second area is a second axis and wherein the programmatically-generated media item recommendation list in the second axis intersects the focus area on the user interface. - View Dependent Claims (33, 34, 35, 36, 37)
- a focus area;
-
38. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing software for instructing a controller of a computing device to:
-
display a user-selected media item recommendation in a focus area on a user interface of a display device; determine a social media item recommendation list comprising one or more social media item recommendations; determine a programmatically-generated media item recommendation list comprising one or more programmatically-generated media item recommendations; display the social media item recommendation list in a first area on the user interface; and display the programmatically-generated media item recommendation list in a second area on the user interface different from the first area wherein the first area is a first axis, and the second area is a second axis and wherein the programmatically-generated media item recommendation list in the second axis intersects the focus area on the user interface. - View Dependent Claims (39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44)
-
Specification