Patent ID: 7668729

Claim:
A method for providing user information related to a user's selection of audio data, the method comprising the steps of: receiving a user's selection of audio data and an indicium identifying the user; analyzing the user's present selection of audio data and previous selections of audio data, and identifying at least one user interest category based on the user's present and previous audio data selections; selecting at least one user information item from the at least one identified user interest category, the at least one selected user audio information item including auto data; automatically determining, by a computer, a number of times the selected at least one user audio information item has been combined with a previous audio selection of the user; comparing the determined number of times with a threshold number of times; based on the results of the comparison, selecting a second at least one user audio information item from the at least one identified user category; combining the audio data of the second selected at least one user audio information item with the user's audio data selection; and delivering the combined second selected at least one user audio information item and the user's audio data selection over a network.