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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 04, 2011
Filed:
Nov. 07, 2007
Sean Purdy, Durham, NC (US);
Eugene Matthew Farrelly, Cary, NC (US);
Hugh Svendsen, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Sean Purdy, Durham, NC (US);
Eugene Matthew Farrelly, Cary, NC (US);
Hugh Svendsen, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Napo Enterprises, LLC, Wilmington, DE (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods for allowing media recommendations to be hyped in a media recommendation system. Recommenders desiring to emphasize a particular media recommendations sent to recipients can 'hype' the media recommendation. Hyping is a request for the media recommendation to be used or played sooner by the recipient that it otherwise would if the media recommendation were not hyped. Typically, hyping a media recommendation increases its priority or order of placement in a recipient's media queue, which controls the order of usage or play. The higher the placement, the sooner the media recommendation may be used or played by the recipient. A hype score may be calculated for a hyped media's recommendation to control the order of placement of hyped media recommendations in the recipient's media queue. The hype score may be a function of a hype value and a natural score as if the media recommendation were not hyped.