Patent ID: 8190082

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 tastes associated with at least one selected from a group consisting of active indicators of taste and passive indicators of taste, said passive and active indicators indicating tastes of a user of said portable content-playing-device, said software programs including a software program for downloading pattern-matching technologies from said at least one satellite, said software programs including a software program for executing said pattern-matching technologies thereby computing similarity values between said local taste profile and downloaded other taste profiles associated with at least one selected from a group consisting of songs and videos, 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 said downloaded other taste profiles for the benefit of said user to enable said user to have an experience of a digital content channel specifically geared towards that user's individual tastes, wherein said local taste profile is a user taste profile additionally including at least one digital content identifier, said software program for deciding which digital content to play includes means for identifying most similar of said downloaded other taste profiles to said local taste profile, said software program for deciding which digital content to play making that decision based upon said at least one digital content identifier associated with said most similar of said downloaded other taste profiles.