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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 09, 2025
Filed:
Mar. 13, 2023
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Bekir B. Dundar, Moraga, CA (US);
Arvind S. Shenoy, San Jose, CA (US);
Daniel Cartoon, South San Francisco, CA (US);
Denise L. Chen, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Drew R. Domm, Oakland, CA (US);
Fredric R. Vinna, San Francisco, CA (US);
Mark H. Levy, Winchester, GB;
Paul C. Irvine, Mill Valley, CA (US);
Priyo Mustafi, Fremont, CA (US);
Thomas Alsina, Saratoga, CA (US);
Erik Lindholm, Cupertino, CA (US);
Uli M. Schoberl, San Francisco, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
Generating a customized playlist may include identifying a user account for which a playlist is to be generated, where the user account is associated with a user listening history, a taste profile, and a social profile, identifying one or more friend accounts linked to the user account based on the social profile, obtaining an indication of a plurality of songs associated with one or more of the friend accounts, determining a listening history for the one or more plurality of songs based on the friend accounts, obtaining a subset of the plurality of songs based on the listening history of the plurality of songs, and generating a playlist from the subset of the plurality of songs.