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Collaborative chat room media player with recommendations

  • US 9,021,370 B1
  • Filed: 03/17/2010
  • Issued: 04/28/2015
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/17/2010
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method comprising:

  • connecting a plurality of user devices in a networked environment, the networked environment including;

    a media player to play a piece of media content selectable from a playlist and to enable substantially synchronized distribution of the piece of media content to the plurality of user devices during the play of the piece of media content; and

    a message board to enable a plurality of users to communicate among one another while the plurality of user devices receive the piece of media content in the networked environment, the plurality of users including a group of users that purchased the piece of media content;

    surveying pieces of media content from media libraries of individual ones of the plurality of users, the pieces of media content made selectable for inclusion in a first population of media content of a queue that feeds one or more pieces of media content to a second population of media content of the playlist, wherein the first population of media content is separate from the second population of media content; and

    moving the piece of media content from a position in the playlist to another position in the playlist in response to determining that a threshold number of users of the group of users that purchased the piece of media content indicate that the piece of media content is to be moved.

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