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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 24, 2015
Filed:
Sep. 30, 2008
Patrick Gates, San Francisco, CA (US);
Richard Frederick Wagner, San Francisco, CA (US);
Jeremy Werner, Burlingame, CA (US);
Andrew Wadycki, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Josh Flowers, San Mateo, CA (US);
Stephen A. Davis, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Jeffrey S. Miller, Mountain View, CA (US);
Patrick Gates, San Francisco, CA (US);
Richard Frederick Wagner, San Francisco, CA (US);
Jeremy Werner, Burlingame, CA (US);
Andrew Wadycki, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Josh Flowers, San Mateo, CA (US);
Stephen A. Davis, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Jeffrey S. Miller, Mountain View, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
System, method and computer program for facilitating media playlist generation based at least in part on media library inventory information provided by a plurality of program participants. Data is transmitted from a program participant's client device indicative of media inventory in a media library of the program participant. Media item similarity ratings are received at the client device that have been compiled based on cumulative data collected from a plurality of program participants, including identification data of individual media items contained in media libraries of the program participants regardless of each individual media item's source. Similarity ratings compilation includes processing the cumulative data to determine an incidence of co-occurrence of pairs of individual media items in different program participants' media libraries and making an assignment of a similarity rating based on the determined incidence of co-occurrence.