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Media content management and presentation systems and methods

  • US 9,124,235 B2
  • Filed: 09/30/2011
  • Issued: 09/01/2015
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/30/2011
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method comprising:

  • linking together, by a media content presentation system, multiple, individual media content instances, whereinthe linking together includes generating linking data that identifies a link between the multiple, individual media content instances, andthe link between the multiple, individual media content instances comprises a two-way link in which one media content instance and another media content instance included in the multiple, individual media content instances are linked together by a directional link from the one media content instance to the another media content instance and by a reverse directional link from the another media content instance to the one media content instance; and

    randomizing, by the media content presentation system, a playback of a playlist that includes the linked media content instances and one or more unlinked media content instances, each of the linked media content instances and the one or more unlinked media content instances being available for randomized selection for playback during the randomizing of the playback of the playlist, wherein the randomizing of the playback of the playlist comprisesrandomly selecting a first media content instance included in the playlist for playback,identifying, based on the linking data, that the first media content instance corresponds to one of the one or more unlinked media content instances,playing the first media content instance as an individual media content instance within the randomizing of the playback of the playlist,randomly selecting a second media content instance included in the playlist for playback,identifying, based on the linking data, that the second media content instance corresponds to one of the linked media content instances included in the playlist, andplaying the second media content instance and all of the linked media content instances, which are included in the playlist and are linked to the second media content instance, as an indivisible block of linked media content instances that are not divisible within the indivisible block by the randomizing of the playback of the playlist.

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