Patent ID: 8412763

Claim:
A method of storing information associated with a podcast, comprising: receiving a podcast by a server, the podcast having podcast metadata content and podcast media content, the podcast media content includes one or more episodes; parsing the podcast metadata content to ascertain whether the podcast media content includes an explicit tag; obtaining information associated with the podcast corresponding to the parsed podcast metadata content to determine whether the explicit tag is associated with an episode of the podcast or the podcast as a whole; determining whether the explicit tag is associated with the podcast or an episode of the podcast based upon the associated information; associating the associated information with the episode of the podcast if the determining has determined that the explicit tag is associated with an episode of the podcast, the associated information including at least an indicator of a value of the explicit tag; and storing the associated information for use by a client device to determine whether the episode is to be blocked based upon the associated information, wherein at least when determined that the podcast metadata content includes an explicit tag, the method further comprises: determining whether the explicit tag is associated with the podcast or an episode of the podcast; associating an indicator of the value of the explicit tag with all of the podcast media content of the podcast when the explicit tag is associated with the podcast; and associating an indicator of the value of the explicit tag with the episode of the podcast when the explicit tag is associated with the episode of the podcast.