Patent ID: 8782533

Claim:
A method of enabling a first user and a second user to obtain collaborative content from a content database, comprising: obtaining a plurality of content preference data that comprises a first content preference data of the first user and a second content preference data of the second user, the first and second content preference data each respectively including (i) list of genres and (ii) rating values corresponding to respective genres, the rating values including a value from 0 to 100, and wherein a collaborative content is selected if the content belongs to a specific genre rated above a predetermined threshold in the corresponding first or second content preference data; obtaining dependency data indicating dependency of (i) a rating value for a given genre in the first content preference data on (ii) a rating value for a corresponding genre in the second content preference data; and using the plurality of content preference data for a selection of the collaborative content from the content database under control of the dependency data, wherein the dependency data controls a manner of using the first and second content preference data for the selection, wherein dependency data of the first content preference data specifies conditions when the rating values of the first content preference data are overruled depending on the second content preference data, further wherein one of the first or second content preference data is (i) ignored in favor of the other or (ii) substituted with the other.