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Date of Patent:
Feb. 20, 2018

Filed:

Jul. 22, 2016
Applicant:

Rhapsody International Inc., Seattle, WA (US);

Inventors:

Heng Cao, Sammamish, WA (US);

Mario Raymond Gerard, Seattle, WA (US);

Aaron Clark Griffith, Kent, WA (US);

Yu Wu, Issaquah, WA (US);

Nathan Kent Rozendaal, Tacoma, WA (US);

Benyi Wang, Issaquah, WA (US);

Assignee:

RHAPSODY INTERNATIONAL INC., Seattle, WA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 7/00 (2006.01); G06F 17/30 (2006.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30038 (2013.01); G06F 17/30035 (2013.01); G06F 17/3053 (2013.01); H04L 67/42 (2013.01);
Abstract

The present systems and methods relate to a concept for providing media recommendations targeted to particular, 'subject' user. The present systems and methods involve obtaining historical usage data associated with the subject user; identifying candidate users; calculating media preference overlap scores with respect to the subject user and each candidate user; ranking the candidate user according to their media preference overlap scores, and generating recommendations for the subject user from the historical usage data associated with the candidate users.


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