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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Aug. 12, 2014

Filed:

Aug. 19, 2008
Applicants:

Kunal Kandekar, Morrisville, NC (US);

Richard J. Walsh, Raleigh, NC (US);

Hugh Svendsen, Chapel Hill, NC (US);

Inventors:

Kunal Kandekar, Morrisville, NC (US);

Richard J. Walsh, Raleigh, NC (US);

Hugh Svendsen, Chapel Hill, NC (US);

Assignee:

Porto Technology, LLC, Wilmington, DE (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04H 60/33 (2008.01); H04N 5/445 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A method and system for constructing and presenting a consumption profile, a rating profile, or both a consumption profile and a rating profile for a media item are provided. In general, consumption of a media item by a number of first users is tracked. Thereafter, before and/or during playback of the media item by a second user, a consumption profile for the media item is constructed and presented to the second user. In addition to or as an alternative to tracking consumption of the media item by the first users, ratings for the media item may be obtained from all or a subset of the first users. Thereafter, before and/or during playback of the media item by the second user, a rating profile for the media item is constructed and presented to the second user.


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