Patent ID: 7197542

Claim:
A method for signaling content quality of preexisting independently created digital data between at least two digital devices having a digital source and a digital receiver, independent of a user, the preexisting independently created digital data having a plurality of data records, each of the plurality of data records having a plurality of data fields, the method comprising the following steps: analyzing quality of the content of the preexisting independently created digital data using one or more predefined sets of criteria without user interaction; grading the results of the analysis without accessing the preexisting independently created digital data, the grade indicative of the quality of the content of the preexisting independently created digital data using at least one or more predefined sets of criteria without user interaction; and, marking the preexisting independently created digital data with the grading results in at least one form without changing and without accessing the preexisting independently created digital data and without user interaction; wherein a first digital receiver dynamically accesses the mark of the preexisting independently created digital data without accessing the preexisting independently created digital data to determine suitability for subsequent use of the preexisting independently created digital data; whereby a different digital receiver without user interaction can independently determine suitability from the mark for another subsequent use of the preexisting independently created digital data without accessing the preexisting digital data.