Methods and Systems for Utilizing Contextual Feedback to Generate and Modify Playlists
Granted: July 11, 2013
Application Number:
20130179439
Systems and methods of generating and modifying a playlist using contextual information are disclosed. For example, a user may provide an input seed such as a song name or artist name. The input seed is compared to database items and a playlist is generated as a result. In some examples, the contextual information is used to enhance the comparison and to select better content objects for a user's playlist. Meanwhile, in some examples the content objects in the playlist may be arranged in…
Methods and Systems for Utilizing Contextual Feedback to Generate and Modify Playlists
Granted: September 1, 2011
Application Number:
20110213769
Systems and methods of generating and modifying a playlist using contextual information are disclosed. For example, a user may provide an input seed such as a song name or artist name. The input seed is compared to database items and a playlist is generated as a result. In some examples, the contextual information is used to enhance the comparison and to select better content objects for a user's playlist. Meanwhile, in some examples the content objects in the playlist may be arranged in…
Methods of Presenting and Providing Content to a User
Granted: September 21, 2006
Application Number:
20060212442
Methods of presenting and providing content to a user are disclosed. For example, a user may provide an input seed such as a song name or artist name. The input seed is compared to database items and a playlist is generated as a result. The playlist has an identifier corresponding to one of the database items. A first graphic element associated with the input seed is displayed. A second graphic element associated with the identifier is displayed. As another example, a plurality of…
METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR UTILIZING CONTEXTUAL FEEDBACK TO GENERATE AND MODIFY PLAYLISTS
Granted: September 21, 2006
Application Number:
20060212444
Systems and methods of generating and modifying a playlist using contextual information are disclosed. For example, a user may provide an input seed such as a song name or artist name. The input seed is compared to database items and a playlist is generated as a result. In some examples, the contextual information is used to enhance the comparison and to select better content objects for a user's playlist. Meanwhile, in some examples the content objects in the playlist may be arranged in…
Playlist generating methods
Granted: September 14, 2006
Application Number:
20060206478
Methods of generating a playlist for a user are disclosed. For example, an input seed from the user associated with one or more items in a database is received. The input seed may be a song name or artist name. Characteristics that correspond to the input seed are identified. One or more focus traits based on the characteristics are also identified. Based on the identification of the one or more focus traits, a weighting factor is assigned to at least some of the characteristics. The…
