Patent ID: 9699232
Date: 2017-07-04
CPC Classifications: G06F,G06Q,H04L

Claim:
1. A method of customizing a consumer-media content stream, the method comprising: receiving, via a network interface configured to couple a server device to a consumer-media-content automation system, information specifying a user-location source preference for a plurality of different types of custom media streams associated with a user, wherein the plurality of different types of custom media streams associated with the user include consumer-media items having different genres, and wherein the user-location source preference indicates whether perishable content inserted into particular types of custom media streams associated with the user is to be inserted based on either of a static location or a variable location of a user; receiving, via the network interface, perishable content items associated with different locales; determining, at the server device, a source location in accordance with the user-location source preference; and inserting add-in blocks into the particular types of custom media streams associated with the user, at the server device, wherein inserting add-in blocks includes perishable content items selected from either the static location or based on the variable location of the user, in accordance with the user-location source preference.