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US 9225580
Mechanism for facilitating user-controlled features relating to media content in multiple online media communities and networks
Current assignee: Dynamuse LLC
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Patent summary
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Patent Overview — US 9,225,580 B2
Title: Mechanism for facilitating user-controlled features relating to media content in multiple online media communities and networks.
Patent number / application: US 9,225,580 B2; application US 13/779,113; earlier publication US 2013/0227038 A1.
Inventor: Bradly Freeman Rich.
Assignee: Original assignee listed as "Individual"; current assignee listed as Dynamuse LLC. The source notes that Google Patents performed no analysis of assignee accuracy.
Dates (as listed, and characterized in the source as assumptions, not legal conclusions): priority date 2012-02-29; filing date 2013-02-27; publication date 2015-12-29. Legal status: Active, with "adjusted expiration" 2033-08-25.
Purpose: One or more implementations relate generally to data management and, more specifically, to a mechanism for facilitating user-controlled features relating to media content in multiple online media communities and networks. Embodiments facilitate user-controlled performance of features relating to media content.
Plain-language scope (from the supplied excerpt): A method includes receiving, at a first computing device, a request relating to media content. The request may be placed by a user at a second computing device. The method further includes researching multiple media playlists at multiple media communities for the media content; selecting one or more of those playlists at one or more of the media communities that have the media content; and transmitting, from the first computing device to the second computing device, the one or more media playlists having the media content. Figures described include a computing device employing the mechanism, the mechanism itself, methods and transaction sequences for playlist assistance and sharing media content across media communities, related screenshots, and a computer system. Classifications include H04L65/60, G06F16/40, G06Q10/40, H04L51/56, and H04N21/26258, among others.
What the excerpt does not establish: It does not supply the full claim text, the complete written description, or the listed prior-art references. It does not establish the precise scope of any claim, the actual legal status or expiration, assignee accuracy, or the priority-date conclusion.
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