公开(公告)号：US09003056B2

公开(公告)日：2015-04-07

申请号：US11609945

申请日：2006-12-13

申请人： Hugh Svendsen

发明人： Hugh Svendsen

IPC分类号： G06F15/16 ,  H04N7/173 ,  G06F17/30 ,  G11B27/10 ,  H04L12/00 ,  H04L29/00 ,  H04N7/00 ,  H04N21/231 ,  H04N21/254 ,  H04N21/4788

CPC分类号： H04N7/17336 ,  G06F17/30017 ,  G11B27/10 ,  H04L12/00 ,  H04L29/00 ,  H04N7/00 ,  H04N21/23106 ,  H04N21/254 ,  H04N21/4788

摘要： The present invention provides a peer-to-peer (P2P) network for providing real time media recommendations. The P2P network includes a central server interconnecting a number of peer devices. In operation, a proxy function of the central server receives media recommendations from one or more peer devices that are active and online as media presentations identified by the media recommendations are played by the peer devices. The one or more peer devices are included in a group of peer devices associated with a first peer device. The proxy function provides the media recommendations to the first peer device. An augmentation function of the central server monitors a recommendation level of the first peer device. If the recommendation level falls below a minimum recommendation level, the augmentation function augments the media recommendations provided to the first peer device to increase the recommendation level to or above the minimum recommendation level.

摘要翻译： 本发明提供了一种用于提供实时媒体推荐的点对点（P2P）网络。 P2P网络包括互连多个对等设备的中央服务器。 在操作中，中央服务器的代理功能从一个或多个活动和在线的对等设备接收媒体推荐，因为媒体推荐所标识的媒体呈现由对等设备播放。 一个或多个对等设备被包括在与第一对等设备相关联的一组对等设备中。 代理功能向第一个对等设备提供媒体建议。 中央服务器的增强功能监视第一对等设备的推荐级别。 如果推荐级别低于最低建议级别，则增加功能将增加提供给第一对等设备的媒体建议，将推荐级别增加到或低于最低推荐级别。

公开(公告)号：US09002701B2

公开(公告)日：2015-04-07

申请号：US13239363

申请日：2011-09-21

申请人： Kunal Kandekar ,  Scott Curtis ,  Hugh Svendsen

发明人： Kunal Kandekar ,  Scott Curtis ,  Hugh Svendsen

IPC分类号： G06F17/27 ,  G06F17/30

CPC分类号： G06F3/04842 ,  G06F3/0482 ,  G06F17/2745

摘要： Disclosed herein are systems and methods for navigating electronic texts. According to an aspect, a method may include receiving search criteria for searching an electronic text. Further, the method may include determining text subgroups within the electronic text. The method may also include determining, for each text subgroup, a similarity relationship between the search criteria and the text subgroup. Further, the method may include presenting, for each text subgroup, a graphic representing the similarity relationship between the text subgroup and the search criteria.

摘要翻译： 本文公开了用于导航电子文本的系统和方法。 根据一个方面，一种方法可以包括接收用于搜索电子文本的搜索标准。 此外，该方法可以包括确定电子文本内的文本子组。 该方法还可以包括为每个文本子组确定搜索标准和文本子组之间的相似关系。 此外，该方法可以包括为每个文本子组呈现表示文本子组与搜索标准之间的相似关系的图形。

公开(公告)号：US08805831B2

公开(公告)日：2014-08-12

申请号：US11757263

申请日：2007-06-01

申请人： Hugh Svendsen ,  Waymen J. Askey

发明人： Hugh Svendsen ,  Waymen J. Askey

IPC分类号： G06F17/30

CPC分类号： G11B27/105 ,  G11B27/00 ,  G11B27/11 ,  H04L12/00 ,  H04L29/00 ,  H04L67/104 ,  H04L67/1082 ,  H04L67/306

摘要： A computer-implemented method and system are provided for replaying media items. Aspects of the method and system include in response to one of the media items being played, calculating a respective replay score for the media item that affects replay of the corresponding media item; and using the replay score to sort the media items for playing.

摘要翻译： 提供计算机实现的方法和系统来重放媒体项目。 方法和系统的方面包括响应于正在播放的一个媒体项目，计算影响相应媒体项目的重放的媒体项目的相应重放分数; 并使用重放分数来排序要播放的媒体项目。

公开(公告)号：US08620699B2

公开(公告)日：2013-12-31

申请号：US11463157

申请日：2006-08-08

申请人： Hugh Svendsen

发明人： Hugh Svendsen

IPC分类号： G06Q30/00 ,  G06Q50/00 ,  G06F7/06 ,  G06F17/30

CPC分类号： G06F3/0482 ,  G06F17/30743 ,  G06F17/30749 ,  G06F17/30766 ,  G06Q30/02 ,  G06Q30/0601

摘要： A system and method for providing media recommendations, such as music recommendations, based on information identifying media recently played by a select group of heavy influencers for a subscription fee are provided. The group of heavy influencers may be a group of one or more celebrities or other persons whose media selections may heavily influence media selections of the users of the system.

摘要翻译： 提供了一种用于提供诸如音乐推荐的媒体建议的系统和方法，其基于识别最近由订阅费用的一组重要影响者组播的媒体的信息。 重要影响者群体可能是一组或多名名人或其他媒体选择可能会严重影响系统用户的媒体选择的人员。

公开(公告)号：US08484227B2

公开(公告)日：2013-07-09

申请号：US12251513

申请日：2008-10-15

申请人： Hugh Svendsen

发明人： Hugh Svendsen

IPC分类号： G06F17/30

CPC分类号： G06F17/30038

摘要： A system and method for caching and/or synching shared media items in a media sharing system are provided. In one embodiment, a user device of a user joins a media sharing system including the user device and one or more other user devices connected via a network such that the user of the user device has access to one or more shared media collections hosted by the one or more other user devices. Shared media items from the one or more shared media collections are scored. The user device then obtains shared media items scored above a defined threshold from the one or more other user devices hosting the one or more corresponding shared media collections and stores those shared media items in local storage. In one embodiment, the local storage is temporary storage, such as a cache.

摘要翻译： 提供了用于在媒体共享系统中缓存和/或同步共享媒体项目的系统和方法。 在一个实施例中，用户的用户设备加入包括用户设备的媒体共享系统以及经由网络连接的一个或多个其他用户设备，使得用户设备的用户可以访问一个或多个由 一个或多个其他用户设备。 对来自一个或多个共享媒体集合的共享媒体项进行评分。 然后，用户设备从承载一个或多个对应的共享媒体集合的一个或多个其他用户设备获得高于定义的阈值的共享媒体项目，并将这些共享媒体项目存储在本地存储器中。 在一个实施例中，本地存储器是诸如高速缓存的临时存储。

公开(公告)号：US08463931B2

公开(公告)日：2013-06-11

申请号：US13036676

申请日：2011-02-28

申请人： Gregory M. Evans ,  Hugh Svendsen ,  Olivia Marie Marsh

发明人： Gregory M. Evans ,  Hugh Svendsen ,  Olivia Marie Marsh

IPC分类号： G06F15/16

CPC分类号： H04L63/0428 ,  H04L12/185 ,  H04L12/189 ,  H04L63/065 ,  H04L65/4076 ,  H04L2463/101 ,  H04W4/02 ,  H04W4/50

摘要： A system for and method of per access-point streaming media customization and privacy protected feedback in a wireless network. The system is operative to: encrypt real time streamed media content from a streaming media source; multicast the streamed encrypted media content for availability to a user device for playback, the user device sending out unicast responses at the time of joining or dropping the multicast; aggregate the unicast responses in the form of a connect multicast state or a disconnect multicast state of the user device based on the joining or dropping of the multicast; and provide information back to the streaming media source based on the aggregated unicast responses.

公开(公告)号：US20130036022A1

公开(公告)日：2013-02-07

申请号：US13647049

申请日：2012-10-08

申请人： Hugh Svendsen

发明人： Hugh Svendsen

IPC分类号： G06Q30/00

CPC分类号： G06Q30/02 ,  G06Q10/06 ,  G06Q30/0253

摘要： An archiving system is provided for archiving a user's media collection and refining recommendations made to the user by an e-commerce service, such as an e-commerce website, based on the archive of the user's media collection. In general, a central archiving system interacts with a user system to archive a user's media collection. Thereafter, while the user is interacting with the e-commerce service, a list of recommended media for the user is generated and provided to the archiving system. The archiving system refines the list based on the archive of the user's media collection. Optionally, the list of recommended media may be further refined based on a user profile and play history of the user. The refined list of recommended media is returned to the e-commerce service and presented to the user.

摘要翻译： 提供存档系统，用于基于用户的媒体集合的归档，归档用户的媒体收集和优化由电子商务服务（诸如电子商务网站）向用户提出的建议。 通常，中央存档系统与用户系统交互以归档用户的媒体集合。 此后，当用户正在与电子商务服务进行交互时，生成用于用户的推荐媒体的列表并将其提供给归档系统。 归档系统根据用户的媒体集合的归档来优化列表。 可选地，可以基于用户简档和用户的播放历史来进一步改进推荐媒体的列表。 将推荐媒体的精简列表返回给电子商务服务并呈现给用户。

公开(公告)号：US08359314B2

公开(公告)日：2013-01-22

申请号：US13207765

申请日：2011-08-11

申请人： Hugh Svendsen

发明人： Hugh Svendsen

IPC分类号： G06F17/30

CPC分类号： G06F17/3028 ,  G06F17/30265 ,  H04N1/21

摘要： A system and method for suggesting keywords for tagging a digital image are provided. In general, a requesting node is communicatively coupled to a keyword service via a network. The requesting node sends a request to the keyword service requesting suggested keywords for a digital image. The request includes information relating to the digital image such as positional information. Based on the information, the keyword service generates a list of suggested keywords and provides the list of suggested keywords to the requesting node. At the requesting node, the list of suggested keywords is displayed to a user, and the user selects one or more of the suggested keywords for tagging the digital image.

摘要翻译： 提供了一种用于建议用于标注数字图像的关键词的系统和方法。 通常，请求节点经由网络通信地耦合到关键字服务。 请求节点向关键字服务发送请求数字图像的建议关键字。 该请求包括与诸如位置信息的数字图像相关的信息。 基于该信息，关键字服务生成建议的关键字列表，并向请求节点提供建议的关键字列表。 在请求节点处，向用户显示建议关键字的列表，并且用户选择一个或多个建议的关键字来标记数字图像。

公开(公告)号：US20130013626A1

公开(公告)日：2013-01-10

申请号：US13616651

申请日：2012-09-14

申请人： Hugh Svendsen ,  Eugene M. Farrelly

发明人： Hugh Svendsen ,  Eugene M. Farrelly

IPC分类号： G06F17/30

CPC分类号： G06F17/30761 ,  G06F17/30041 ,  G06F17/30044 ,  G06F17/30772 ,  G11B27/105 ,  H04L67/22 ,  H04L67/306 ,  Y10S707/912 ,  Y10S707/916

摘要： A computer-implemented method and system are provided for generating media recommendations in a media recommendation network. Aspects of the method and system include receiving by a server a plurality of play histories of media items from a plurality of users of devices, wherein at least a portion of the media items are tagged with corresponding time and location data indicating a time and location of play; receiving by the server a media recommendation request from a requester, including receiving seed information indicating a current location of the requester; using at least one of user preferences of the requester and the seed information to identify correlated users from which to search corresponding play histories from among the plurality of play histories; comparing the seed information to the corresponding play histories and generating a list of related media items contained therein; and returning the list of related media items to the requester.

公开(公告)号：US08316081B2

公开(公告)日：2012-11-20

申请号：US11403467

申请日：2006-04-13

申请人： Hugh Svendsen

发明人： Hugh Svendsen

IPC分类号： G06F15/16

CPC分类号： H04L67/06 ,  H04L67/04 ,  H04L67/1095 ,  H04L67/22

摘要： A system and method for providing previews of media files from a user's media collection to an associated portable media player are provided. In general, media files from the user's media collection are selected based on a play history of the user and optionally a user profile of the user. Once the media files are selected, previews of the media files are generated. The previews may then be transferred to the portable media player during a docking, or synchronization, process. Thereafter, the previews may be played by the portable media player and, if desired, selected by the user for transfer to the portable media player. The media files corresponding to the selected previews are then transferred to the portable media player during a subsequent synchronization process.

摘要翻译： 提供了一种用于将媒体文件从用户的媒体集合预览到相关的便携式媒体播放器的系统和方法。 通常，基于用户的播放历史和可选地用户的用户简档来选择来自用户的媒体集合的媒体文件。 一旦选择了媒体文件，就会生成媒体文件的预览。 然后可以在对接或同步处理期间将预览传送到便携式媒体播放器。 此后，便携式媒体播放器可以播放预览，并且如果需要，由用户选择以便传送到便携式媒体播放器。 然后在随后的同步过程中将与所选预览相对应的媒体文件传送到便携式媒体播放器。