Patent ID: 7194688

Claim:
A method of using a system with at least one element chosen from audio, image, and a video comprising a plurality of frames comprising the step of: (a) providing a plurality of usage preferences descriptions, where each of said usage preferences descriptions includes a field by which said usage preferences description is associated with a limited portion of the year and where each of said usage preferences descriptions includes at least two of a browsing preferences description, a filtering preferences description, a search preferences description, and a device preferences description where, (i) said browsing preferences description relates to a user's viewing preferences; (ii) said filtering preferences descriptions and said search preferences description relate to at least one of (1) content preferences of said at least one of audio, image, and video, (2) classification preferences of said at least one of audio, image, and video, (3) keyword preferences of said at least one of audio, image, and video, and (4) creation preferences of said at least one of audio, image, and video; and (iii) said device preferences description contains descriptors describing at least one of preferred audio and video rendering settings of the presentation device that relates to user's preferences regarding presentation characteristics of the presentation device, said at least one of audio and video rendering settings of said presentation device relating to how the user consumes said at least one of audio and video content; and (b) a usage history description that is capable of periodically updating one or more of said usage preferences descriptions, and where said updating is prevented for any usage preferences description having a value in said field associating said usage preferences description to a limited portion of a year.