Patent ID: 7970922

Claim:
A method of operation of a central streaming media service comprising: streaming a media presentation to a user device of a first user for playback; automatically providing a media recommendation identifying the media presentation to a second user in response to playback of the media presentation at the user device of the first user; receiving the media recommendation on behalf of the second user; making a determination as to whether the media recommendation is to be filtered based on one or more criterion; and if the determination is made not to filter the media recommendation: automatically adding the media presentation identified by the media recommendation to a pre-existing list of media presentations maintained for the second user to provide an updated list of media presentations for the second user; automatically selecting a select media presentation to stream to a user device of the second user from the updated list of media presentations for the second user based on user preferences of the second user; and streaming the select media presentation to the user device of the second user for playback in such a manner that enables playback of the select media presentation to begin upon completion of playback of the first media presentation; wherein receiving the media recommendation comprises receiving the media recommendation during streaming of a first media presentation to the user device of the second user for playback.