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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 09, 2011
Filed:
Feb. 27, 2006
Todd Beaupre, Los Angeles, CA (US);
David E. Brown, San Francisco, CA (US);
Todd Beaupre, Los Angeles, CA (US);
David E. Brown, San Francisco, CA (US);
Yahoo! Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
A method and system for leveraging user media file rating data. In one aspect, the system includes a component in communication with a plurality of media file related services, a rating storage, and a component for making the user rating data available to be used by plural services so that each respective service can use the rating data to tailor a user experience during interaction by the particular user with the respective service. In one aspect, the user preference rating is received from any of the media file related services. In one aspect the user preference rating information and the associated media file information are associated with a particular user regardless of the respective media file related service the preference rating was received from.