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(12) United States Patent (10) Patent No.: US 9.405,753 B2 Eyalet Al US009.405753B2 (12) United States Patent (10) Patent No.: US 9.405,753 B2 Eyalet al. (45) Date of Patent: Aug. 2, 2016 (54) DYNAMIC RATINGS-BASED STREAMING (56) References Cited MEDIA PLAYBACK SYSTEM U.S. PATENT DOCUMENTS Applicant: George Aposporos, Rockville, MD (US) (71) 4,739,567 A 4, 1988 Cardin 4,788,675 A 11/1988 Jones et al. (72) Inventors: Aviv Eyal, New York, NY (US); George 4,870,579 A 9/1989 Hey Aposporos, Rockville, MD (US) 4,996,642 A 2/1991 Hey (73) Assignee: George Aposporos, Rockville, MD (US) (Continued) (*) Notice: Subject to any disclaimer, the term of this FOREIGN PATENT DOCUMENTS patent is extended or adjusted under 35 EP O649 121 A2 4f1995 U.S.C. 154(b) by 0 days. EP O649 121 A3 8, 1995 (21) Appl. No.: 14/935,780 (Continued) (22) Filed: Nov. 9, 2015 OTHER PUBLICATIONS (65) Prior Publication Data U.S. Appl. No. 09/696,333, filed Oct. 24, 2000, Eyalet al. US 2016/OO63OO2A1 Mar. 3, 2016 (Continued) Related U.S. Application Data Primary Examiner — Krisna Lim (63) Continuation of application No. 14/327,789, filed on (74) Attorney, Agent, or Firm — Jason H. Vick; Sheridan Jul. 10, 2014, which is a continuation of application Ross, PC No. 13/355,867, filed on Jan. 23, 2012, now Pat. No. 8.782,194, which is a continuation of application No. (57) ABSTRACT (Continued) A method is provided for playing back media from a network. (51) Int. C. The method includes receiving a search criteria from a net G06F 15/16 (2006.01) work enabled device. The method further includes accessing G06F 7/30 (2006.01) a database comprising a plurality of network addresses, H04L 29/08 (2006.01) where the database associates each address with one or more H04L 29/06 (2006.01) classes of information. The addresses in the database each (52) U.S. C. access a media network resource. The method further CPC. G06F 17/30053 (2013.01); G06F 17/30038 includes selecting at least one address in the database using (2013.01); G06F 17/30864 (2013.01); H04L the search criteria, and signaling the selected address to the 65/60 (2013.01); H04L 67/10 (2013.01); H04L network enabled device. The method also includes control 67/42 (2013.01) ling the network enabled device so as to automatically access (58) Field of Classification Search and play back the media resource of the selected address. CPC .................... G06F 17/30053; G06F 17/30038; H04L 67/10; H04L 65/60 See application file for complete search history. 30 Claims, 22 Drawing Sheets - W3AS PLAYBACKINTERFACE t i.e. i --- s: ife'---7------.– iA Li 22 N -1030 - Rating 04. \ Component gif \ play. ST \ m isy-st \ se: t 1 d re Play-Lists Ack. WEB Serie US 9.405,753 B2 Page 2 Related U.S. Application Data 5,987.454 11, 1999 Hobbs 5,987,525 11, 1999 Roberts et al. 12/255,615, filed on Oct. 21, 2008, now abandoned, 5.991,374 11, 1999 Hazenfield which is a continuation of application No. 10/828,124. 5.996,015 11, 1999 Day et al. 6,006,225 12, 1999 Bowman et al. filed on Apr. 19, 2004, now Pat. No. 7,469,283, which 6,009,459 12, 1999 Belfiore et al. is a continuation of application No. 10/251.307, filed 6,011,537 1, 2000 Slotznick on Sep. 20, 2002, now Pat. No. 6,735,628, which is a 6,014,665 1, 2000 Culliss 6,016,504 1, 2000 Arnold et al. continuation of application No. 10/104,792, filed on 6,018,768 1, 2000 Ullman et al. Mar. 22, 2002, now Pat. No. 6,484,199, which is a 6,021409 2, 2000 Burrows continuation of application No. 09/563,250, filed on 6,025,838 2, 2000 Bardon et al. May 2, 2000, now Pat. No. 6,389,467. 6,026,439 2, 2000 Chowdhury et al. 6,029, 161 2, 2000 Lang et al. 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