Displaying auto-generated facts about a music library

• US 9,467,490 B1
• Filed: 11/11/2013
• Issued: 10/11/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 11/16/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Google Inc. (Alphabet Inc.)
• Inventors: Bilinski, Brandon, Otto, Owen Daniel, Khovanskaya, Vera, Zwiebel, Colin, Sekhon, Yashvir
• Primary Examiner(s): Cao, Phuong Thao
• Application Number:
  US14/076,991
• Time in Patent Office: 1,065 Days
• Field of Search: 707/736
• US Class Current: 1/1
• 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 65/60 Network streaming of media packets

Abstract

A method for surfacing auto-generated facts about an online music library is provided, including: receiving from a client device a request to access an online music library associated with a user, the online music library including a plurality of audio files, each of the plurality of audio files including audio data and metadata associated with the audio data; applying a fact template to the metadata to generate a result, the fact template defining an analysis to be performed on the metadata, the fact template defining a threshold requirement for performance of the analysis defined by the fact template; transmitting to the client device a music application code configured to be executed by a browser application on the client device, the music application code including posting logic configured to display the result of the analysis performed according to the fact template in said browser application on the client device.

Claims

1. A method for surfacing auto-generated facts about an online music library, comprising:

receiving from a client device a request to access an online music library associated with a user, the online music library including a plurality of audio files, each of the plurality of audio files including audio data and metadata associated with the audio data;

applying a fact template to the metadata associated with the plurality of audio files to generate a result, the fact template defining an analysis to be performed on the metadata, the fact template defining a threshold requirement for performance of the analysis defined by the fact template;

transmitting to the client device a music application script code configured to be executed by a browser application on the client device, the music application script code including posting logic configured to display the result of the analysis performed according to the fact template in said browser application on the client device.

2. The method of claim 1,

wherein the music application script code defines an interface for managing and streaming the plurality of audio files of the online music library;

wherein the posting logic is configured to display the result in a predefined window of the interface.

3. The method of claim 1,

wherein the result of the analysis defines a fractional amount of the online music library.

4. The method of claim 3,

wherein the posting logic is configured to adjust an icon in accordance with the fractional amount and display said icon on the client device.

5. The method of claim 1,

wherein the analysis defined by the fact template parses one or more of the following from the metadata:

title, genre, artist, duration, rating, number of times played.

6. The method of claim 1,

wherein the threshold requirement defines a minimum number of audio files having a specified metadata feature.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the specified metadata feature is selected from an artist, a genre, a rating, or a minimum number of plays.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the threshold requirement defines one of a minimum number of audio files or a minimum length of time.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein displaying the result includes displaying a share button for sharing the result to a social network.

10. A method for surfacing auto-generated facts about an online music library, comprising:

receiving from a client device a request to access an online music library associated with a user, the online music library including a plurality of audio files, each of the plurality of audio files including audio data and metadata associated with the audio data;

applying a plurality of fact templates to the metadata associated with the plurality of audio files to generate a plurality of results, each fact template defining an analysis to be performed on the metadata, wherein at least one of the plurality of fact templates defines a threshold requirement for performance of the analysis defined by the at least one of the plurality of fact templates;

storing the plurality of results in a queue;

transmitting to the client device a music application script code configured to be executed by a browser application on the client device, the music application script code including posting logic configured to retrieve and display results from the queue in said browser application on the client device;

wherein the posting logic is configured to display the results in a predefined window of a graphical user interface for managing and streaming the plurality of audio files of the online music library.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the posting logic is configured to retrieve and display the results from the queue in an order in which the results are stored to the queue.

12. The method of claim 10, wherein the posting logic is configured to retrieve and display the results from the queue based on one or more of user input, user interaction with the graphical user interface, a recent song play, a current song play, or a timer.

13. The method of claim 10, wherein the posting logic is configured to retrieve and display a result from the queue in response to playback of a new song.

14. A non-transitory computer readable medium containing program instructions embodied thereon for surfacing auto-generated facts about an online music library, the program instructions for:

receiving from a client device a request to access an online music library associated with a user, the online music library including a plurality of audio files, each of the plurality of audio files including audio data and metadata associated with the audio data;

applying a fact template to the metadata associated with the plurality of audio files to generate a result, the fact template defining an analysis to be performed on the metadata, the fact template defining a threshold requirement for performance of the analysis defined by the fact template;

transmitting to the client device a music application script code configured to be executed by a browser application on the client device, the music application script code including posting logic configured to display the result of the analysis performed according to the fact template in said browser application on the client device.

15. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 14,

wherein the music application script code defines an interface for managing and streaming the plurality of audio files of the online music library;

wherein the posting logic is configured to display the result in a predefined window of the interface.

16. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 14,

wherein the result of the analysis defines a fractional amount of the online music library;

wherein the posting logic is configured to adjust an icon in accordance with the fractional amount and display said icon on the client device.

17. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 14,

wherein the analysis defined by the fact template parses one or more of the following from the metadata:

title, genre, artist, duration, rating, number of times played.

18. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 14,

wherein the threshold requirement defines a minimum number of audio files having a specified metadata feature;

wherein the specified metadata feature is selected from an artist, a genre, a rating, or a minimum number of plays.

19. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 14, wherein the threshold requirement defines one of a minimum number of audio files or a minimum length of time.

20. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 14, wherein displaying the result includes displaying a share button for sharing the result to a social network.