System and method for providing media content having attributes matching a user's stated preference

A method of notifying a user using a device about media content about people, places or things having attributes that match explicit preferences of the user, the method comprising:

• accessing a user preference profile created by the user;
• accessing a profile of the media content about people, places or things;
• determining the location of the user;
• using the location of the user to determine a geographic area;
• comparing the user preference profile and the profile of the media content about the people, places or things to determine if any of the people, places or things has attributes that match the preferences of the user, wherein comparing the user preference profile with the profile of the media content about the people, places or things comprises determining whether at least one of the people, places or things is within the geographic area;
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• notifying the user of the at least one of the people, places or things that match the user's explicit preferences and are within the geographic area.

A method of notifying a user using a device about media content about people, places or things having attributes that match explicit preferences of the user, and which are within a selected geographic area, the method comprising:

• accessing a user preference profile created by the user;
• accessing profiles of media content about the people, places or things;
• receiving a selected geographic area;
• comparing the user preference profile and the profiles of media content about the people, places or things to determine if the media content has attributes that match the preferences of the user, wherein comparing the user preference profile with the profiles of media content comprises determining whether the people, places or things in the media content are within the selected geographic area;
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• ranking the media content about the people, places or things that match the user's explicit preferences, and which are within the selected geographic area.

An apparatus comprising:

• a database configured to store profiles of people, places, and/or things having associated media content;
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• a server coupled to the database, wherein the server is configured to:
• access a user preference profile of a user;
• obtain a geographic area corresponding to the user;
• compare the user preference profile to the stored profiles to determine if the people, places, and/or things have attributes that match the preference profile of the user, including determining whether the people, places, and/or things having attributes that match the preference profile of the user are also within the geographic area corresponding to the user;
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• communicating to the user information about the media content corresponding to one or more people, places, and/or things having attributes that match the preference profile of the user, and which are also within the geographic area corresponding to the user.