Patent ID: 8239327

Claim:
A system for real-time user logging of specific broadcast content, comprising: a content server for obtaining a playlist from each of one or more content sources, each content source broadcasting content as described by playlist entries in the corresponding playlist; a user device for connecting to the content server; and an application installed on the user device, the application providing a registration function, a real-time logging function, and a communicating function, the registration function enabling the user to register on the user device, as part of initiation of the application on the device, an association between a unique selection action of the user and a corresponding particular content source, the unique selection action being dependent upon, and in accordance with, an interface protocol implemented on the user device, the real-time logging function enabling the user to select the specific broadcast content by performing the corresponding unique selection action at a date and time when the specific broadcast content is being heard or seen by the user on the particular content source, and the communicating function of the application thereafter identifying the particular content source and the date and time of the selection to the content server; wherein the content server identifies from the playlist for the selected content source, using the communicated date and time of the selection, a playlist entry describing the specific broadcast content broadcasted by the content source at the date and time of the selection.