User programmed media delivery service

• US 20090070267A9
• Filed: 05/12/2006
• Published: 03/12/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 09/30/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Original Assignee: Musicstrands Incorporated
• Inventors: Hangartner, Rick
• Application Number:
  US11/434,448
• Publication Number:
  US 20070265979A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/59
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4408 involving video stream encryption, e.g. re-encrypting a decrypted video stream for redistribution in a home network
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4755 for defining user preferences, e.g. favourite actors or genre retrieval personalisation and generation of user profiles for the retrieval of video data G06F16/739; user profiles in network data switching protocols H04L67/306
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4756 for rating content, e.g. scoring a recommended movie
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4825 using a list of items to be played back in a given order, e.g. playlists
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/812 involving advertisement data advertising per se G06Q30/02

Abstract

A method and system for programming a media delivery system (FIG. 2) in which members of the general public can produce and host programming, including non-promotional (106) and promotional media items (108), and media consumers (220) can provide direct feedback (252, 262) to the operator of the media delivery system (200) indicating the programming and advertising of most interest to them. Appropriately licensed, copyright-protected media items, and optionally promotional media items, are made available through a web-based virtual production studio (200) to users (210) who may combine them with user-provided media items to produce programming suitable for transmission over the media delivery system.

Claims

1. A method of creating media programming for electronic broadcast to media consumer users comprising the steps of:

(a) providing a software application for use by a user-programmer in creating a digital media program;

(b) in the software application, assembling a playlist comprising at least one media item and at least one advertising item all selected by the user-programmer to form the digital media program;

(c) in the software application, automatically identifying each of the selected media items that comprises a sound recording;

(d) in the software application, for each of the identified sound recordings, automatically determining whether either of the user-programmer or the intended media delivery service has a sound performance license from the corresponding copyright proprietor that permits digital audio transmission of the sound recording; and

(e) if any of the identified sound recordings is not so licensed, guiding the user in selecting and sequencing media items so that the resulting playlist satisfies a predetermined compositional constraint.

2. A method according to claim 1 wherein the predetermined compositional constraint comprises compliance with the requirements of the sound recording performance complement provided by the United States Copyright Act, whereby transmission of the digital media program will avoid copyright infringement.

3. A method according to claim 1 wherein the user-programmer selects media items for inclusion in the playlist responsive to media consumer preferences determined as an ongoing process from an aggregate of explicit and implicit preference expression mechanisms.

4. A method according to claim 1 wherein the user-programmer selects advertising media items for inclusion in the playlist responsive to media consumer advertising preferences determined as an ongoing process from an aggregate of explicit and implicit preference expression mechanisms.

5. A method according to claim 1 wherein the user-programmer selects advertising media items for inclusion in the playlist based on the selected media items.