Patent ID: 7840289

Claim:
A method for selecting a media item from a plurality of media items, each of the plurality of media items being linked to at least one of a plurality of content related attribute-value pairs, the method comprising: receiving, at a media selecting device, a user input for an attribute of the plurality of attribute-value pairs that sets at least two probabilities of selecting predetermined values of the attribute to user-specified values, resulting in a probability distribution of selection of values of the attribute; selecting, by the selecting device, a selected value of the attribute in accordance with the probability distribution; and selecting, by the selecting device, the media item from among a plurality of media items having an attribute-value pair corresponding to the selected value of the attribute, wherein receiving user input to set the at least two values of probability includes defining and displaying a pie-chart having at least two pie-parts corresponding to the at least two predetermined values, the pie-parts having proportions in dependence on the at least two user-specified probabilities.