Scoring and replaying media items

• US 8,805,831 B2
• Filed: 06/01/2007
• Issued: 08/12/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 07/11/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Concert Technology Corporation
• Original Assignee: Napo Enerprises, LLC (Concert Technology Corporation)
• Inventors: Svendsen, Hugh, Askey, Waymen J.
• Primary Examiner(s): Choi, Yuk Ting
• Application Number:
  US11/757,263
• Publication Number:
  US 20090055396A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,629 Days
• Field of Search: 707/736, 348/231.3, 715/716
• US Class Current: 707/736
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/00 Editing; Indexing; Addressing; Timing or synchronising; Monitoring; Measuring tape travel
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/105 of operating discs
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/11 by using information not detectable on the record carrier
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/00 Data switching networks interconnection of, or transfer of information or other signals between, memories, input/output devices or central processing units G06F13/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/2803 Home automation networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/104 Peer-to-peer [P2P] networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1082 involving incentive schemes
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/00 Network arrangements, protocols or services independent of the application payload and not provided for in the other groups of this subclass networks security protocols H04L9/40; wireless communication networks H04W

Abstract

A computer-implemented method and system are provided for replaying media items. Aspects of the method and system include in response to one of the media items being played, calculating a respective replay score for the media item that affects replay of the corresponding media item; and using the replay score to sort the media items for playing.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method for replaying media items on a media device, comprising:

in response to one of the media items being played, the media device calculates a respective replay score for the media item that affects replay of the corresponding media item as a function of a respective profile score and a no repeat factor that affects a period between repeat playings of the media item, wherein the respective replay score is calculated based on a plurality of category weights and the no repeat factor (NRF) is based on a user settable value and comprises one of the plurality of category weights and is calculated as a function of a weighted no repeat (WNR) value as

2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 further comprising calculating a respective profile score for each one of the media items.

3. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 wherein the no repeat factor is based on a total number of media items in a playlist.

4. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 further comprising calculating the replay score based on a function of the plurality of category weights and the NRF.

5. The computer-implemented method of claim 4 further comprising calculating the replay score as a function of a no repeat factor and

[(1/(WD+WG+WL+WU))*(WD*WDA+WG*WGA+WL*WLA+WU*WUA)]

where WD is a weight assigned to a decade category, WG is a weight assigned to a genre category, WL is a weight assigned to a location/availability category, WU is a weight assigned to a user category, WDA is a weight assigned to a decade attribute of a song, WGA is a weight assigned to a genre attribute of the song, WLA is a weight assigned to a location/availability attribute of the song, and WUA is a weight assigned to a user attribute of the song.

6. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 wherein using the replay score to sort the media items for playing further comprises updating profile scores of media items with the corresponding replay scores, and re-ordering the media items based on the updated profile scores.

7. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 wherein using the replay score to sort the media items for playing further comprises setting the replay scores equal to profile scores for the media items that have yet to be played.

8. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 further comprising displaying a plurality of the media items in a playlist along with associated profile scores and replay scores.

9. A peer device for a peer-to-peer (P2P) media recommendation system comprising:

a communication interface communicatively coupling the peer device to other peer devices in a P2P network; and

a control system associated with the communication interface that functions to;

receive real-time media recommendations of media items from the other peer devices;

intersperse the real-time media recommendations with an existing playlist of media items designated by a user;

dynamically calculate a replay score for a previously played media item that affect replay of the media item as a function of a respective profile score and a no repeat factor that affects a period between repeat playings of the media item, wherein the replay score is calculated based on a plurality of category weights and the no repeat factor (NRF) is based on a user settable value and comprises one of the plurality of category weights and is calculated as a function of a weighted no repeat (WNR) value as

10. The peer device of claim 9 wherein the control system further functions to calculate a respective profile score for the media items based on user preferences.

11. The peer device of claim 9 wherein the no repeat factor is based on a total number of media items in a playlist.

12. The peer device of claim 9 wherein the control system further functions to calculate the replay score based on a function of the plurality of category weights and the NRF.

13. The peer device of claim 12 wherein the control system further functions to calculate the replay score as a function of a no repeat factor and

[(1/(WD+WG+WL+WU))*(WD*WDA+WG*WGA+WL*WLA+WU*WUA)]

where WD is a weight assigned to a decade category, WG is a weight assigned to a genre category, WL is a weight assigned to a location/availability category, WU is a weight assigned to a user category, WDA is a weight assigned to a decade attribute of a song, WGA is a weight assigned to a genre attribute of the song, WLA is a weight assigned to a location/availability attribute of the song, and WUA is a weight assigned to a user attribute of the song.

14. The peer device of claim 9 wherein using the replay scores to sort the media items for playing further comprises updating profile scores of media items with the corresponding replay scores, and re-ordering the media items based on the updated profile scores.

15. The peer device of claim 9 wherein the replay scores are used to sort the media items for playing by setting the replay scores equal to profile scores for the media items that have yet to be played.

16. The peer device of claim 9 wherein the media items are displayed in the playlist along with associated profile scores and replay scores.

17. A non-transitory computer readable medium embodied in an article of manufacture and storing an executable software product containing program instructions for replaying media items, the program instructions for:

in response to one of the media items being played, calculating a respective replay score for the media item that affects replay of the corresponding media item as a function of a respective profile score and a no repeat factor that affects a period between repeat playings of the media item, wherein the respective replay score is calculated based on a plurality of category weights and the no repeat factor (NRF) is based on a user settable value and comprises one of the plurality of category weights and is calculated as a function of a weighted no repeat (WNR) value as