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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 31, 2016
Filed:
Feb. 05, 2013
Iheartmedia Management Services, Inc., San Antonio, TX (US);
Michael Moss, Hoboken, NJ (US);
Pablo M. Calamera, New York, NY (US);
Ryan R. Sult, Fairfield, CT (US);
Lasse Hamre, New York, NY (US);
Steven F. Radley, Yonkers, NY (US);
iHeartMedia Management Services, Inc., San Antonio, TX (US);
Abstract
A computer-implemented process comprises identifying, by a computer server system, a base topic for a personalized media stream for a user of a computer system; identifying, with the computer server system, a plurality of media items associated with the base topic using a plurality of different and independent categories of media categorization data, wherein each of the categories of media categorization data is assigned a weighting; building a collection of candidate media items from the identified plurality of media items; ordering the collection of candidate media items to form a personalized media stream; and providing the ordered collection of candidate media items for playing to the user.