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| 20120072852 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING MUSIC CONTENT IN A P2P REAL TIME RECOMMENDATION NETWORK - A peer-to-peer (P2P) network for providing real time media recommendations is provided. The media recommendations may be song recommendations or video recommendations. Each time a media presentation is played by a peer device, the peer device provides a recommendation identifying the media presentation to other peer devices in the P2P network. A peer device having received recommendations from the other peer devices in the P2P network then programmatically, or automatically, selects a next media presentation to play from the media presentations recently played by the other peer devices and one or more locally stored media presentations. If the selected media presentation is not stored locally by the peer device, the peer device may obtain the selected media presentation from a subscription based service enabling streaming or download of the selected media presentation, an e-commerce service enabling purchase and download of the selected media presentation, or another peer device. | 03-22-2012 |
| 20120072846 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY AND GRAPHICALLY ASSOCIATING PROGRAMMATICALLY-GENERATED MEDIA ITEM RECOMMENDATIONS RELATED TO A USER'S SOCIALLY RECOMMENDED MEDIA ITEMS - A system and method for automatically, programmatically generating media item recommendations on a graphical user interface (GUI) based on a friend media item recommendation selected by a user. In the preferred embodiment, a selected media item recommendation is displayed in the GUI. Received friend media item recommendations are displayed in a list in relevance order adjacent to the selected media item. A programmatically-generated media item recommendation list is automatically generated based on relevance to the selected media item and displayed in another adjacent area to the selected media item recommendation. In this manner, a user can easily play the selected media item recommendation, and then browse the friend media item recommendations and the automatically updated programmatically-generated media item recommendations, which are both provided in their own respective adjacent areas, in order of closest relationship to the selected media item recommendation, at anytime. | 03-22-2012 |
| 20120072610 | P2P REAL TIME MEDIA RECOMMENDATIONS - Systems and methods are described for providing peer-to-peer (P2P) media recommendations. In one embodiment, a central streaming media service operates to stream media presentations to user devices of users. For each user desiring to send and receive recommendations, each time a media presentation is streamed to and played by a user device of the user, the central media service provides a recommendation identifying the media presentation to one or more other users associated with the user. Similarly, the central media service provides media recommendations to the user from one or more other users. Once streaming and playback of the media presentation is complete or substantially complete, the central streaming media service automatically selects a next media presentation for the user from a group of media presentations including those identified by the recommendations provided to the user and begins streaming the next media presentation to the user device of the user. | 03-22-2012 |
| 20120071996 | EMBEDDED MEDIA RECOMMENDATIONS - A system and method for embedding recommendations on a portable media player are provided. In general, recommendations for media presentations stored or to be stored on the portable media player are generated by a recommendation engine hosted by an external system such as, for example, a user's personal computer or a network server. In one embodiment, the media presentations are songs, and the recommendations include a number of recommended songs for each song stored or to be stored on the portable media player. The recommendations may be limited to the media presentations stored on the portable media player or otherwise accessible to the portable media player. After the recommendations are generated, the recommendations are stored, or embedded, on the portable media player. Thereafter, the portable media player may use the recommendations to facilitate playback of media content on the portable media player. | 03-22-2012 |
| 20120041967 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ASSOCIATING A MEDIA RECOMMENDATION WITH A MEDIA ITEM - A first peer device includes a communication interface and a controller associated with the communication interface configured to receive a selection of a media item recommendation of a media item, the media item recommendation including media item metadata and originating at a second peer device, and execute a search of one or more publicly accessible third party media content providers utilizing the media item metadata based upon one or more search content preferences. The search results thusly obtained are then received and displayed. | 02-16-2012 |
| 20100199218 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PREVIEWING RECOMMENDATION QUEUES - A method and system for previewing a media item recommendation queue. A server receives a request from a first device for at least a portion of a media item recommendation queue associated with a second device. The server provides to the first device a plurality of recommendation queue entries from a top portion of the media item recommendation queue associated with the second device. The order of the plurality of recommendation queue entries in the media item recommendation queue is based on a plurality of priority indicators associated with the second device. The server receives a request from the first device to couple the second device to the first device and couples the second device to the first device, wherein media item recommendations generated by the second device are directed to the first device. | 08-05-2010 |
| 20100198767 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CREATING THEMATIC LISTENING EXPERIENCES IN A NETWORKED PEER MEDIA RECOMMENDATION ENVIRONMENT - Systems and methods for providing a thematic playback experience in a peer-to-peer media recommendation system are disclosed. | 08-05-2010 |
| 20100094820 | METHOD FOR AFFECTING THE SCORE AND PLACEMENT OF MEDIA ITEMS IN A LOCKED-TO-TOP PLAYLIST - Methods and systems are disclosed for affecting a score of a media item in a playlist of scored media items. In one embodiment, a playlist of scored media items that is sorted based on score is provided. An associated user is enabled to adjust the score of a media item in the playlist by moving the media item up or down in the playlist. In another embodiment, a playlist of scored media items is provided. The associated user is enabled to directly adjust the score of a media item in the playlist via a score adjustment control. In yet another embodiment, media items in a playlist are scored based on one or more user preferences of the associated user. The playlist may or may not be sorted based on score. Adjustments are made to the user preferences based on detected user events such as, for example, score adjustment events. | 04-15-2010 |
