System And Method For Recommending Multimedia Elements
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a system and method for recommending multimedia elements comprising:
- means for identifying the number of times that a user has accessed or accessed and played a musical piece or multimedia element in a certain time period, and
- means for arranging said identified pieces in the form of a preference or relevance profile for said user, taking into account the following indicators:
- number of accesses, or accesses and plays, per piece for said certain time period, and
- number of accesses, or accesses and plays, per piece during a sub-period located in a last section of said certain time period.
The method proposes a recommendation made from a plurality of preference profiles of multiple users, generally comparing the preference profile of a user with the remaining preference profiles of other users.
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28. A system for recommending multimedia elements, preferably applicable to the music recommendations to a user, of the type comprising:
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means for accessing and playing multimedia elements by at least one user; means for ascertaining the multimedia element preferences of said user, who is at least one in number, characterized in that said means for ascertaining the multimedia element preferences of said user comprise; identification means for automatically identifying the number of times that said user has accessed or accessed and played at least in part each one of said multimedia elements in a certain time period, and arranging means associated to said identification means for arranging said identified pieces in the form of a preference or relevance profile for said user, who is at least one in number, taking into account the following indicators; said number of accesses, or accesses and plays, per multimedia element for said certain time period, and the number of accesses, or accesses and plays, per multimedia element during a sub-period located in a last section of said certain time period. - View Dependent Claims (29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36)
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37. A method for recommending multimedia elements, preferably applicable to the music recommendation to a user, comprising the following steps:
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a) identifying the number of times that at least one user has accessed or accessed and played at least in part each one of a series of multimedia elements in a certain time period, and b) arranging said identified multimedia elements in the form of a preference or relevance profile for said user, who is at least one in number, taking into account; a first indicator relating to said number of accesses or accesses and plays per multimedia element for said certain time period, a second indicator relating to the number of accesses or accesses and plays per multimedia element during a sub-period located in a last section of said certain time period, and said arrangement is carried out by assigning different weights or levels of importance to the different identified multimedia elements depending on said indicators. - View Dependent Claims (38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55)
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