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Pruning an aggregate media collection

  • US 8,484,311 B2
  • Filed: 04/17/2008
  • Issued: 07/09/2013
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/17/2008
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A method comprising:

  • discovering, by a first user device, a plurality of shared media collections made available to a first user of the first user device by a plurality of second users of a plurality of second user devices, the first user and the plurality of second users being participants in a social network;

    aggregating, by the first user device, one or more shared media collections from the plurality of shared media collections and a local media collection of the first user to provide an aggregate media collection for the first user at the first user device by providing a primary list including a single media item entry for each unique media item;

    scoring media items in the aggregate media collection based on user preferences of the first user to provide a desirability score for each of the media items;

    filtering the aggregate media collection based on a threshold score and the desirability scores for the media items in the aggregate media collection to provide a filtered version of the aggregate media collection; and

    enabling the first user to utilize the filtered version of the aggregate media collection at the first user device.

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