Patent ID: 8321449

Claim:
A media rating method comprising: surveying by a receiving device configurable for receiving media data at least a portion of media data receivable from a sharing device, the media data comprising metadata and at least one of audio, video and textual data, the metadata comprising a plurality of data elements, at least one of the data elements for at least one of uniquely identifying and being descriptive of the at least one of audio, video and textual data; providing a rating score by a user of the receiving device, the rating score indicating how well the user liked the media data; generating a credit amount based on the rating score; extracting at least one of the plurality of data elements from the metadata; and generating a data packet, the data packet comprising the rating score, the credit amount, and the extracted at least one of the plurality of data elements from the metadata, the data packet for appraising the media data, wherein generating the data packet comprises providing a credit amount, comparing the credit amount to a rating amount in response to operation of a user interface, generating the rating score in response to the credit amount being one of equal to and more than the rating amount, and deducting the rating amount from the credit amount in response to the rating score being generated; and wherein the data packet is subsequently transmittable to the sharing device.