MEDIA PLAYLIST CONSTRUCTION FOR VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS

• US 20150127818A1
• Filed: 09/15/2014
• Published: 05/07/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 12/26/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Activision Publishing Incorporated (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Activision Publishing Incorporated (Microsoft Corporation)
• Inventors: BATES, CARY LEE, CHEN, JIM CHUN-TA, GARBOW, ZACHARY ADAM, YOUNG, GREGORY EDWARD
• Granted Patent: US 9,525,746 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/224
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/636 by using biological or physiological data
• 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 16/68 Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/535 Tracking the activity of the user network monitoring arrangements H04L43/00; recording of computer activity G06F11/34

Abstract

Embodiments of the invention provide techniques for generating song playlists for use in an immersive virtual environment. Generally, playlists may be generated based on stored music preference data. The music preference data may be generated by storing user interactions with specific songs. The user interactions may be associated with characteristics of the user'"'"'s situational context within the virtual world. The music preference data may be indexed by song name, and/or by musical properties. Subsequently, the music preference data may be used to generate a playlist adapted to the user'"'"'s current situation within the virtual world.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method, comprising:

monitoring a user interacting with the virtual environment through an avatar;

in response to detecting a triggering event, determining one or more characteristics of a situational context of the avatar within the virtual environment, wherein the one or more characteristics comprise at least one of;

(i) a location of the avatar within the virtual environment, (ii) one or more interactions performed by the avatar with respect to other virtual objects within the virtual environment, and (iii) one or more avatar companions of the user within the virtual environment, wherein the determining is performed by a playlist engine configured to determine at least two of the characteristics of the situational context;

based on the determined one or more characteristics and by operation of one or more computer processors, generating a playlist by the playlist engine; and

providing the user with one or more songs included in the playlist.