Patent ID: 7783249

Claim:
A portable content-playing device for playing digital content communicated along with related data from at least one satellite, comprising radio communication hardware for receiving data from said at least one satellite, a central processing unit and supporting hardware including random access memory and persistent storage, said persistent storage storing data including locally-stored digital content and taste profile data and software programs, said taste profile data including a local taste profile representing the tastes associated with said locally-stored digital content as represented by at least one selected from the group consisting of active indicators of taste and passive indicators of taste, said software programs including a software program for downloading other taste profiles from said at least one satellite, said software programs including a software program for computing similarity values between said local taste profile and downloaded other taste profiles, said software programs including a software program for deciding which digital content to play based upon said similarity values, whereby a virtual channel is constructed automatically by inference from said local taste profile and downloaded other taste profiles for the benefit of that user to enable that user to have the experience of a digital content channel specifically geared towards that user's individual tastes.