Patent ID: 7167895
Filing Date: 2007-01-23
Classification: H04H

Abstract:
1. A method, comprising: receiving meta-data broadcast by a server system at a client system, the meta-data including attributes describing content of respective data files from among a plurality of data files to be broadcast at future times by the server system; updating a meta-data table stored by the client system, the meta-data table including a list of attributes correlated to relevance values and believability values, the relevance value of a corresponding attribute increased when a user of the client system indicates interest in a particular data file having the corresponding attribute, the believability value of the corresponding attribute increased when the user accesses the particular data file having the corresponding attribute; generating ratings for each of the plurality of data files via the client system based on the meta-data table and common attributes contained in the meta-data for that data file; selecting, via the client system, one or more of the plurality of data files described by the meta-data to store based on the ratings generated for the plurality of data files; and selectively storing, via the client system, the selected one or more of the plurality of data files in response to a later broadcast of those data files by the server system.