Patent ID: 7325043
Filing Date: 2008-01-29
Classification: G06Q,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A system for providing a personalized media service comprising: a storage system operable to store (1) a plurality of works, (2) for each said stored work, meta information associated with the work, wherein the meta information includes information identifying the title of the work, information identifying the name of a product that includes the work, and/or art work associated with the work, and (3) a plurality of channel profiles; and a media server that is operable to transmit one or more works simultaneously and address, in the case of more than one work, each of the two or more works to different devices, wherein the media server is further operable to: the user's device is configured to (1) receive and play the transmitted works, and (2) for each work that is played, (a) display, while the work is being played, at least some of the received meta information associated with the work, and (b) enable the user of the device to indicate that the user likes said work while the work is being played, for each of said plurality of works transmitted to the device, the user's device does not provide the user with information about the artist(s) who created the work until (a) such time as the work is played by the device or (b) a point in time immediately prior to the playing of the work by the device, and the system is configured such that the user can not directly control which works are transmitted by the media server in response to the second request.