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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 29, 2011
Filed:
Oct. 12, 2007
Louis B. Rosenberg, Pismo Beach, CA (US);
Louis B. Rosenberg, Pismo Beach, CA (US);
Outland Research, LLC, Pismo Beach, CA (US);
Abstract
A method and system are provided for enabling users in shared physical places to collaboratively rate the music playing within such places by using portable computing devices on their person. In one embodiment, the portable computing devices are mobile phones and each user may independently rate a currently playing musical piece within the physical place by sending an electronic message from their phone, for example in SMS format. The method and system further enables the receipt of a plurality of such rating messages, the computing of a statistical result, and the providing of the statistical result to each of the plurality of portable computing devices. In this way a group of people may collectively listen to a currently playing musical piece in a physical place, may each provide a subjective rating of the musical piece, and may each receive an indication of the collaborative result of the provided ratings.