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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 26, 2019
Filed:
May. 31, 2016
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Noam Koenigstein, Ra-anana, IL;
Nir Nice, Kfar Veradim, IL;
Shay Ben Elazar, Tel Aviv, IL;
Yehiel Berezin, Petah Tikva, IL;
Oren Barkan, Rishon Lezion, IL;
Tal Zaccai, Tel Aviv, IL;
Shimon Shlevich, Nazareth Illit, IL;
Nimrod Ben Simhon, Netanya, IL;
Paul Nogues, Clamart, FR;
Gal Lavee, Tel Aviv, IL;
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A playlist generator that utilizes multiple data sources to rank each track within a set of candidate tracks to enable selection of candidate tracks according to the ranking. Candidate tracks are each scored according to one or more features, such as acoustic similarity and/or similar usage patterns of the candidate track or artist of the candidate track to a current or previously played track or artist. Each feature is weighted according to historical listening patterns surrounding a user-selected playlist seed artist. The weighting may also be further corrected according to historical listening patterns of the particular user. When historical usage data related to a particular seed artist is limited, more generalized historical usage data related to a higher level in a genre hierarchy may be used.