Patent ID: 9224105
Filing Date: 2015-12-29
Classification: G06F,G06N,H04L,H04N

Abstract:
1. A method of managing automated media-content downloads in a preferred network comprising: receiving, with a computing device of a user, a sorted list of scored media content episodes, wherein each respective media content episode is scored by an iterative autotuning prediction algorithm, and wherein each element of the sorted list of scored media content episodes comprises a value that represents a likelihood of a user listening to the respective media content episode and a reference to a location of the respective media content episode; determining, with at least one processor, a number of bytes of a download iteration for each media content episode based on value that represents a likelihood of the user listening to the respective media content episode and an index of the respective media content episode in the sorted list; detecting that the computing device is in the preferred network; and implementing the download iteration for each media content episode when it is detected that the computing device is in the preferred network.