SYSTEM AND METHOD OF GENERATING A PLAYLIST BASED ON USER POPULARITY OF SONGS THEREIN THROUGH A MUSIC SERVICE

• US 20130198632A1
• Filed: 01/30/2013
• Published: 08/01/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 01/30/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Beats Music, LLC (Apple Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Beats Music, LLC (Apple Inc.)
• Inventors: Hyman, David
• Application Number:
  US13/754,506
• Publication Number:
  US 20130198632A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/716
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/686 using information manually generated, e.g. tags, keywords, comments, title or artist information, time, location or usage information, user ratings
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04847 Interaction techniques to control parameter settings, e.g. interaction with sliders or dials

Abstract

A method includes inputting a seed data via a music interface associated with a music service on a music device through a user thereof. The seed data is a driver of creation of a playlist associated with the music service. The method also includes determining popularity of songs related to the seed data on a music server based on a usage history of the user with respect to the seed data. The music server is configured to generate the playlist. Further, the method includes providing a capability to the user to control a ratio of popular songs in the playlist related to the seed data on the music interface through another interface therefor.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

inputting a seed data via a music interface associated with a music service on a music device through a user thereof, the seed data being a driver of creation of a playlist associated with the music service;

determining popularity of songs related to the seed data on a music server based on a usage history of the user with respect to the seed data, the music server being configured to generate the playlist; and

providing a capability to the user to control a ratio of popular songs in the playlist related to the seed data on the music interface through another interface therefor.

2. The method of claim 1, comprising providing the capability to control the ratio of popular songs in the playlist through a slider as the another interface, the sliding of the slider being configured to modify the ratio of popular songs in the playlist.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein songs of the playlist are stored in a database associated with the music server.

4. The method of claim 1, comprising determining the popularity of the songs on the music server based on the usage history of the user through calculating at least one of a frequency of plays of a song, a frequency of plays of an artist associated with the song, an amount of time spent listening to the song, and an amount of time spent listening to the artist.

5. The method of claim 3, further comprising:

blending songs in a popularity order through the music server; and

rendering the blended songs in the playlist generated by the music server.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein rendering the songs in the playlist comprises providing, through the music server, access to the songs in the database related to the playlist through the music interface.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the music device and the music server are communicatively coupled through a computer network.

8. A system comprising:

a music server;

a network; and

a music device communicatively coupled to the music server through the network, the music device having a music interface associated with a music service to enable a user input seed data therethrough, the seed data being a driver of creation of a playlist associated with the music service, and the playlist being generated through the music server,

wherein the music server is configured to determine popularity of songs related to the seed data based on a usage history of the user with respect to the seed data, and

wherein the music interface includes another interface associated therewith to provide a capability to the user to control a ratio of popular songs in the playlist related to the seed data.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein the another interface is a slider, the sliding of which is configured to modify the ratio of popular songs in the playlist.

10. The system of claim 8, further comprising a database associated with the music server to store songs of the playlist.

11. The system of claim 8, wherein the music server is configured to determine the popularity of the songs based on the usage history of the user through calculating at least one of a frequency of plays of a song, a frequency of plays of an artist associated with the song, an amount of time spent listening to the song and an amount of time spent listening to the artist.

12. The system of claim 10, wherein the music server is further configured to blend songs in a popularity order and to render the blended songs in the playlist.

13. The system of claim 12, wherein the music server is further configured to provide access to the songs in the database related to the playlist through the music interface.

14. A non-transitory medium, readable through a music device and including instructions embodied therein that are executable through the music device, comprising:

instructions to enable inputting a seed data via a music interface associated with a music service on the music device through a user thereof, the seed data being a driver of creation of a playlist associated with the music service;

instructions to provide a capability to the user to control a ratio of popular songs in the playlist related to the seed data on the music interface through another interface therefor; and

instructions to receive the playlist based on generation thereof on a music server in accordance with the controlled ratio, the playlist including songs whose popularity is determined based on a usage history of the user with respect to the seed data.

15. The non-transitory medium of claim 14, comprising instructions to provide the capability to control the ratio of popular songs in the playlist through a slider as the another interface, the sliding of the slider being configured to modify the ratio of popular songs in the playlist.

16. The non-transitory medium of claim 14, comprising instructions to receive the songs of the playlist stored in a database associated with the music server.

17. The non-transitory medium of claim 14, comprising instructions to receive the songs whose popularity is determined at the music server through calculating at least one of a frequency of plays of a song, a frequency of plays of an artist associated with the song, an amount of time spent listening to the song, and an amount of time spent listening to the artist.

18. The non-transitory medium of claim 14, further comprising:

instructions to receive the songs blended in a popularity order through the music server; and

instructions to receive the playlist with the blended songs rendered therein through the music server at the music device.

19. The non-transitory medium of claim 16, further comprising instructions to access the songs of the playlist at the music device through the database via the music server.

20. The non-transitory medium of claim 14, further comprising instructions to receive the songs of the playlist at the music device through a network configured to communicatively couple the music server and the music device.