Patent ID: 8230465
Filing Date: 2012-07-24
Classification: G06F,G06Q,H04L

Abstract:
1. A user terminal for a network, the user terminal comprising: a local database comprising community preference information related to preferences of a community of users; a processor for determining if a communication with a second user terminal is possible; a receiver for receiving community preference information from the second user terminal if communication is possible, wherein the community preference information relates to media clips; a database controller for updating the database of community preference information in response to the received community preference information, the database being stored in a matrix structure wherein there is a column for each media clip and a row for each user, each row comprising a time stamp indicating when the information was updated by the corresponding user; a recommendation processor for generating a recommendation in response to the community preference information of the local database, wherein the recommendation is of a media clip; and wherein the user terminal compares the time stamp of the received community presence information for a specific user with the time stamp of the community presence information already stored in the database in a row corresponding to said specific user and if the time stamp reflects that the received community presence information is newer, the database is updated with the received community presence information and otherwise said row is not modified.