System and Method for Enabling Review of a Digital Multimedia Presentation and Redirection Therefrom

There is presented a system for providing a digital multimedia presentation. The system includes a processor and a memory. The system further includes a presentation content database stored in the memory, the presentation content database configured to store a plurality of episodes of a media series each of the plurality of episodes including and a credit portion. The system also includes a media player for execution by the processor and configured to play a selected episode of the plurality of episodes of the media series, and a review and redirection application for execution by the processor and configured to determine a next episode of the selected episode in the media series, where the processor executes the review and redirection pane during or after the credit portion of the selected episode to present a consumer with the next episode of the selected episode in the media series.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION1. Field of the Invention

The present invention relates generally to the management of media content. More particularly, the present invention relates to computer mediated selection of digital media content.2. Background Art

Traditionally, the availability of publicly accessible media content, such as broadcast television (TV) content, has been managed by the entities, such as TV networks, providing the content. As a result, consumers had a fairly limited menu of content items from which to identify desirable content. In that traditional media environment, consumers identified and located desirable media content through a program listing, which in the early days of broadcast TV was typically a paper listing, and more recently began to be provided as an electronic listing, such as an Electronic Program Guide for example. While this conventional approach to enabling identification of desirable media content may have been helpful to consumers when their choices were relatively limited, it has grown progressively more inefficient, and less effective, as available media content has proliferated.

The emergence of the Internet, for example, as a computer network resource enabling consumers to obtain media content online, has only made the deficiencies of the traditional approach more acute. Paradoxically, the ready availability of so much content so easily obtained, may have served as much to hinder as to enhance accessibility of that con