Patent ID: 8688712
Filing Date: 2014-04-01
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method for maintaining a personal media database associated with a user account including media-related information, the method comprising: receiving, at one or more computing devices, media-related information regarding a media item from a remote media service, wherein the media-related information comprises rating information for the media item, the rating information representing an assessment of the quality of the media item by a user of the user account, and the rating information being provided according to a first rating standard used at the remote media service, the first rating standard indicating a manner by which media items are rated; converting, using the one or more computing devices, the rating information from the first rating standard to a second rating standard used at a personal media database communicatively coupled to the one or more computing devices, the second rating standard indicating a manner by which media items are rated and wherein the second rating standard is different than the first rating standard; storing, in connection with the user account, the media-related information including the converted rating information at the personal media database; converting a portion of the stored media-related information including at least the rating information from the second rating standard to a third rating standard; receiving user rating information for a respective media item associated with media-related information stored at the personal media database in connection with the user account, the user rating information being received according to the second rating standard; storing, at the personal media database in connection with the user account, the user rating information for the respective media item; and converting the user rating to the first rating standard at the personal media database; and transferring the converted user rating information to the remote media service.