Patent ID: 7324953

Claim:
A computer system for collecting consumer preference information relating to songs and albums from a plurality of registered users and for allowing a plurality of subscribing clients to access the collected consumer preference information, comprising: a user database containing demographic profile information for a plurality of registered users, the demographic profile information for each registered user including information regarding each registered user's zip code, country, favorite radio format, favorite or most frequently listened to radio station, user name, user password, user email address, gender, age, income, and education bracket; an opt-in database containing user email addresses for registered users who have chosen to receive emails containing music and entertainment information, the music and entertainment information including information regarding new releases and concert schedules; a radio station database containing information regarding a plurality of radio stations, each radio station having an associated zip code and radio format, the radio station database including information regarding each radio station's associated zip code and radio format; a song information database containing information identifying songs and albums, each song having an associated song status and song genre format, each album including an associated album status and album genre format, the song information database including information identifying the song status and song genre format for each song and the album status and album genre format for each album, the song information database including consumer preference information from registered users for the songs and albums included in the song information database; and a processor adapted to cause the computer system to allow a non-registered user to register as a registered user of the computer system, to allow registered users included in the user database to input consumer preference information regarding the songs and albums included in the song information database, to allow registered users included in the user database to recover lost user passwords from the computer system, to allow subscribing clients to search the consumer preference information stored in the song information database based on predetermined search parameters, and to allow subscribing clients to generate reports using the consumer preference information stored in the song information database based on predetermined reporting parameters.