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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 31, 2013
Filed:
May. 21, 2012
Patrick Gates, San Francisco, CA (US);
Jeremy Werner, Burlingame, CA (US);
Andrew H. Vyrros, San Francisco, CA (US);
John Andrew Mcculloh, Belmont, CA (US);
Richard Frederick Wagner, San Francisco, CA (US);
Eric Danforth Strahm, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Patrick Gates, San Francisco, CA (US);
Jeremy Werner, Burlingame, CA (US);
Andrew H. Vyrros, San Francisco, CA (US);
John Andrew McCulloh, Belmont, CA (US);
Richard Frederick Wagner, San Francisco, CA (US);
Eric Danforth Strahm, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods and arrangements for facilitating generation of media mixes for a program participant based at least in part on media library inventory information provided by a number of program participants. Those individuals that decide to be program participants are interested in organizing, maintaining and playing their music, based at least in part, on data derived from a population of other participants in the program. A program participant must send, and the system, receive, data representative of that program participant's media inventory. The system or program determines a relative similarity of each item from the collection of program participants as compared to each other item and from the similarity information clusters of similar items are identified. The clusters can be used to identify clusters of similar items in an individual program participant's media library and therefrom mixes of similar media items can be created.