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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Dec. 20, 2016

Filed:

May. 08, 2012
Applicants:

Jay Yagnik, Mountain View, CA (US);

Douglas Eck, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Inventors:

Jay Yagnik, Mountain View, CA (US);

Douglas Eck, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Assignee:

Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/16 (2006.01); G06Q 10/10 (2012.01); G06F 17/30 (2006.01); G06Q 30/00 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 10/10 (2013.01); G06F 17/30 (2013.01); G06Q 30/00 (2013.01);
Abstract

A system and methods for automatically detecting temporal music trends by observing music consumption by users of online services, for example, social networks, and user sharing habits. In some embodiments, the system and methods gather music consumption patterns (e.g., downloading, listening, sharing or the like) of users, including music identifiers for a track, album, or playlist in a user's music library and time stamps that indicate consumption times corresponding to the music identifiers. A temporal trends detection engine determines music of interest to users by analyzing music consumption patterns of users, user interests and tastes in music, and social affinity between users. A recommendations engine automatically generates and transmits recommendations of music determined by the temporal trends detection engine to be of interest to users.


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