PLAYABLE MUSIC LIBRARY BUILDING IN A STREAMING MEDIA ENVIRONMENT

• US 20090265369A1
• Filed: 04/19/2008
• Published: 10/22/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 04/19/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Original Assignee: Beats Music, LLC (Apple Inc.)
• Inventors: Jacoby, Raphael L., HYMAN, DAVID, Marinescu, Andrei M.
• Granted Patent: US 8,924,390 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/435 Filtering based on additional data, e.g. user or group profiles
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/4387 by the use of playlists
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/44 Browsing; Visualisation therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/635 Filtering based on additional data, e.g. user or group profiles
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/637 Administration of user profiles, e.g. generation, initialization, adaptation or distribution
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/639 using playlists
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/683 using metadata automatically derived from the content
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation

Abstract

A method, system, and apparatus of a playable music library building in a streaming media environment are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method of a server device includes, creatin a streamable playlist associated with a user, determining that the streamable playlist is associated with an artist, and determining that a central database includes new tracks of the artist, automatically adding the new tracks to the streamable playlist without charging a consideration to the user. The method may include communicating an alert message to the user when the new tracks may be added to the streamable playlist. The method may create a category playlist associated with the user based on a category of a media content. The method may include determining that the central database may include additional tracks in the category. The method may request that the user to add the additional tracks in the category playlist.

Claims

1. A method of a server device, comprising:

creating a streamable playlist associated with a user;

determining that the streamable playlist is associated with an artist; and

determining that a central database includes new tracks of the artist;

automatically adding the new tracks to the streamable playlist without charging a consideration to the user.

2. The method of claim 1 further comprising communicating an alert message to the user when the new tracks are added to the streamable playlist.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein the streamable playlist is created of a media content that is stored on a content database of a central server.

4. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

creating a category playlist associated with the user based on a category of a media content;

determining that the central database includes additional tracks in the category;

requesting that the user to add the additional tracks in the category playlist; and

adding the additional tracks to the category playlist based on a user response.

5. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

removing certain ones of the new tracks based a request of the user.

6. The method of claim 1 wherein the streamable playlist is not downloaded to a client device associated with the user before the consideration is received from the user.

7. The method of claim 1 wherein the streamable playlist is playable as a ringtone on a mobile device.

8. The method of claim 1 wherein the streamable playlist is created when the user selects a subscribe indicator on a website associated with the artist.

9. The method of claim 8 wherein the subscribe indicator is located on any website having textual data referencing the artist.

10. The method of claim 9 wherein the website is at least one of a fan page of the artist, a blog page, and an artist website.

11. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

determining that the central database includes related tracks of other artists in a similar geographic area as the artist; and

automatically adding the related tracks to the streamable playlist without charging a consideration to the user.

12. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

determining that the central database includes certain tracks of that fit a personality profile of the user of a social community environment; and

automatically recommending that the certain tracks be added to the streamable playlist without charging a consideration to the user.

13. The method of claim 1 in a form of a machine-readable medium embodying a set of instructions that, when executed by a machine, causes the machine to perform the method of claim 1.

14. A method of a server device comprising:

determining an attribute desirable to a user of a social community environment based on at least one of an analysis of a profile of the user in the social community environment and a media content of a playlist; and

automatically adding tracks to the playlist of the user when additional tracks of a content database of a central server are determined to share the attribute desirable to the user.

15. The method of claim 14 wherein the attribute is selected from at least one a personal attribute of the user, an artist name, an album name, a track name, a genre, a category, and a geographical area.

16. The method of claim 15 further comprising:

selecting a media content of the playlist from the content database having content of a plurality of artists and media labels based on a request of a user of a social community environment; and

streaming the media content from the central server associated with the central content database to the user without requiring consideration of the user to access the media content.

17. A system comprising:

a central server having a plurality of media content associated with different artists stored in a content database;

a server device to create a streamable playlist associated with a user from selected ones of the plurality of media content of the central database and to automatically add new tracks to the streamable playlist without charging a consideration to the user; and

a client device to play the streamable playlist having the new tracks without downloading the selected ones of the plurality of media content and the new tracks to the client device.

18. The system of claim 17 further comprising a subscribe module of the server device to automatically create a new streamable playlist when the user selects a subscribe indicator associated with at leas one of an artist, album, a genre, and a category in any website where the subscribe indicator is activated.

19. The system of claim 18 further comprising a geography module of the server device to determine that a geo-spatial region is relevant to the selected ones of the plurality of media content, and to select the new tracks based on the geo-spatial region identified.

20. The system of claim 19 further comprising a profile analyzer module of the server device to determine characteristics of a user profile that indicate which of the new tracks are desirable to the user.