| Patent application number | Description | Published |
| 20090061901 | Personal augmented reality advertising - Personal augmented reality advertising involves detecting a proximity between a participant's mobile device and a viewer's mobile device. An identifier of the participant's mobile device and biometric data that describes the participant have both been made publicly available. The biometric data is obtained in response to detecting the proximity between the participant's mobile device and the viewer's mobile device. A match is detected between the biometric data of the participant and an image captured from a sensor of the viewer's mobile device. In response to detecting the match, the captured image and an advertisement presented with the captured image is presented in the viewer's mobile device. The advertisement is associated with the participant. | 03-05-2009 |
| 20090064227 | APPARATUS, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR GENERATING A PERSONALIZED VISUALIZATION OF BROADCASTING STATIONS - An apparatus, method and computer program product are provided for creating a personalized visualization of broadcasting stations that enables a user to quickly identify broadcasting stations that are in line with his or her tastes or preferences. Broadcasting stations may be plotted at specific locations within a personalized visualization based on the categories in which media objects broadcast by those broadcasting stations fall. This location may be continuously updated as the broadcasting stations continue to broadcast additional media objects falling within different categories. A user may similarly be plotted, and continuously updated, within the personalized visualization based on the categories in which media objects reproduced by the user fall. By viewing the personalized visualization, the user may be able to identify which of the broadcasting stations monitored are broadcasting media objects that are most in line with the media objects he or she has been reproducing. | 03-05-2009 |
| 20090327193 | APPARATUS, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR FILTERING MEDIA FILES - An apparatus, method and computer program product are provided for filtering media files for inclusion in a user's profile. A user may define rules to prevent certain media files from being included in his/her profile and, if desired, to redirect the media files to another individual's profile. The recommendation service, itself, may further generate rules to be used to filter the media files. When a media file that meets one of the rules defined by the user, or automatically by the service, is consumed in association with the user's account, a reference associated with the media file may, depending upon the requirements of the rule, be placed into a temporary folder, from which the user may delete the reference or redirect it to his or her own, or another's, profile. | 12-31-2009 |
| 20090327891 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR PROVIDING A MEDIA CONTENT SELECTION MECHANISM - A method for providing a media content selection mechanism may include providing for display of a selectable object that is representative of a corresponding physical object associated with media content. The selectable object may be arranged in the display based at least in part on a physical location of the physical object represented by the selectable object. The method may further include determining whether the selectable object correlates to a digital content item and enabling the provision of information corresponding to the digital content item in response to selection of the selectable object. | 12-31-2009 |
| 20100138433 | Method and Apparatus for Generating an Information List Associated with a User - In accordance with an example embodiment of the present invention, an apparatus, comprising a processor configured to receive a request associated with a group, generate an information list based at least in part on the group, and transmit the information list. | 06-03-2010 |
| 20100138742 | Method and Apparatus for Displaying Information Related to User Actions - In accordance with an example embodiment of the present invention, an apparatus comprising a processor configured to transmit data based at least in part on an action of users related to consumed media. Further the apparatus comprises a user interface configured to display an indicator associated with the data. | 06-03-2010 |