Tellme Networks, Inc.

Myspace, LLC

Ali Partovi

Hadi Partovi

Brandon William Porter

Nathaniel S Brown

Daphne Huetu Luong

Jeff C Kunins

Yevgeny Zarakhovsky

E Castedo Ellerman

Ross B Fubini

Benjamin Botts Osheroff

Firooz Partovi

A system, apparatus, and method to assist in the discovery of music or other content by members of a social network. The present invention permits network members to network together and share information about their music collections and listening habits with a processing platform and with each other. The processing platform processes music library content and playback related data to produce similarity and compatibility measures between artists (that is, an artist-to-artist measure) and between network members (that is, a network member-to-network member measure). By combining the content and playback related data with filtering mechanisms, recommendation techniques (which may be based on the calculated measures), and set membership concepts, the present invention provides network members of the network with tools to discover artists and/or songs that are likely to be of interest to them.

System, apparatus and method for discovery of music within a social network

A method and apparatus for linking a web based account to a phone based account is described. The method avoids the need to directly reveal account information, e.g. username/password, about one account to the provider of the other. The linking occurs on the web in one embodiment, with a user's browser being redirected from the web site to the web site of the provider of the voice service. The redirection URL will include account linking information. Once the user identifies herself to the web site of the provider of the voice service, the linking information can be stored in the user's phone account as a cookie. When the user access the voice service over the phone, her telephone identifying information can be used to identify her profile. When she visits the phone application corresponding to the web site, the cookie&#x2014;now including linking information&#x2014;can be passed to the application to identify the appropriate web account.

Web-to-phone account linking using a linking code for account identification

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