Patent ID: 8296422

Claim:
A method of providing data comprising: providing sample content to a user device, the sample content being a portion of content data; identifying a response to the sample content by a user of the user device; providing second sample content to the user device based on the sample content; wherein additional content data is provided to the-user device when the response indicates a positive indication, that indicates that a user at the user device desires the additional content data, wherein additional content is not provided to the user device when the response indicates a negative indication, that indicates that a user at the user device does not desire the additional content data, wherein the response indicates: an elapsed time that the sample content was provided prior to receiving the positive indication or the negative indication; and updating a user profile data based on the response wherein the sample content is provided to the user device based on a content ranking, the ranking based on the response to the sample content by the user and the elapsed time indicated by the response, and wherein parameters of the sample content include transmission speed and the transmission speed of the sample content is greater than a transmission threshold.