Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Beijing Ruixin Online System Technology Co., Ltd.

Paul Wang

Chunshui Zhao

George Evangelos Roussos

Justin Ayers

Example apparatus and methods concern a first off-the-shelf device (e.g., game console, laptop) that may lack a sensor interacting with a second off-the-shelf device(s) (e.g., smart phone, tablet) that has a sensor. The first device may ask remote devices to expose sensors, may select a remote device and sensor to work with, may control communications between the devices and may use the sensor data provided by the second data to run an application on the first device. The application may be acquired from a consumer-oriented application repository, may require sensor data, and may run unmodified on the first device due to the availability of the sensor data from the second device. The combination of devices improves the capability of the first device, saves energy, and reduces computing complexity. A game console or application written for the game console may perform better using sensor data from a remote device.

Sensor data availability from remote devices

A music recommendation method may include obtaining the music belongingness function of music, which is the set of granularity of music in different dimensions, wherein the dimension is the classification of music and the granularity is the classification of the dimension; obtaining the user belongingness function of a user, which is the set of granularity indicating likes of user in different dimensions; calculating a granularity correlation function by using the music belongingness function and the user belongingness function; calculating the value of the probability function indicating likes of user for music by using the granularity correlation function and a dimension weighting coefficient; and recommending the music to the user when the value of the probability function indicating likes of user for music is greater than a preset threshold. An apparatus applying to the method comprises corresponding modules.

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