Methods and systems for personalizing user experience based on use of service

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11080002-B2
Application number	US-201916270490-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 7, 2019
Priority date	Feb 24, 2017
Publication date	Aug 3, 2021
Grant date	Aug 3, 2021

Abstract

An electronic device associated with a media-providing service has one or more processors and memory storing instructions for execution by the one or more processors. For each track of a plurality of tracks consumed by a user of the media-providing service, the electronic device receives, over a time window, an indication of user selection of the track to compile a listening history of the user and determines, based on the listening history of the user with the media-providing service, whether the track has previously been consumed by the user. The electronic device determines, for the user, a discovery score corresponding to an average preference of the user for selecting previously unconsumed tracks. In response to determining that an amount of use of the media-providing service by the user does not satisfy a use threshold, the electronic device forgoes recommending tracks to the user based on the discovery score.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method, comprising
at an electronic device associated with a media-providing service having one or more processors and memory storing instructions for execution by the one or more processors:
for each track of a plurality of tracks consumed by a user of the media-providing service:
receiving, over a time window, an indication of user selection of the track to compile a listening history of the user with the media-providing service; and
determining, based on the listening history of the user with the media-providing service, whether the track has previously been consumed by the user;

determining, for the user, a discovery score corresponding to an average preference of the user for selecting previously unconsumed tracks;
determining whether an amount of use of the media-providing service by the user satisfies a use threshold; and
in response to determining that the amount of use of the media-providing service by the user does not satisfy the use threshold, forgoing recommending tracks to the user based on the discovery score.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein determining the discovery score includes measuring, over the time window, the average preference of the user for selecting previously unconsumed tracks.

3. The method of claim 2 , wherein determining the discovery score comprises calculating the average preference of the user for selecting previously unconsumed tracks measured over a number of successive tracks consumed by the user.

4. The method of claim 3 , wherein streaming the tracks comprises streaming tracks from one or more content sources of the media-providing service.

5. The method of claim 4 , wherein the one or more content sources of the media-providing service comprise one or more stations.

6. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
in response to determining that the amount of use of the media-providing service by the user satisfies the use threshold, streaming tracks to the user for playback based on the discovery score.

7. The method of claim 6 , further comprising:
after determining the discovery score, determining whether the discovery score of the user satisfies a threshold discovery score; and
in response to determining that the discovery score of the user does not satisfy the threshold discovery score, streaming tracks to the user for playback that have been previously consumed by the user and excluding providing tracks to the user for playback that have not been previously consumed by the user.

8. The method of claim 7 , further comprising, at the electronic device:
determining a personalized ratio of previously unconsumed tracks to previously consumed tracks to be provided to the user, wherein the personalized ratio is proportional to the discovery score; and
in response to determining that the discovery score of the user does not satisfy the threshold discovery score, selecting a track to recommend to the user based on the personalized ratio.

9. The method of claim 6 , wherein streaming the tracks comprises:
selecting an order of the tracks to provide to the user based on the discovery score; and
streaming the tracks to the user in the selected order.

10. The method of claim 6 , further comprising, at the electronic device:
identifying a listening context for the user in which the discovery score satisfies a threshold; and
streaming previously unconsumed tracks without user selection of the previously unconsumed tracks, in response to a determination that a current listening context for the user matches the identified listening context.

11. The method of claim 6 , further comprising, at the electronic device:
determining a user preference for a first content type over a second content type, based in part on the discovery score; and
selecting the tracks to stream based on the user preference.

12. The method of claim 1 , wherein the time window corresponds to a single session for the user.

13. The method of claim 1 , wherein:
the listening history is stored as a Bloom filter; and
determining whether the track has been previously consumed by the user comprises querying the Bloom filter.

14. An electronic device associated with a media-providing service, comprising:
one or more processors; and
memory storing one or more programs for execution by the one or more processors, the one or more programs comprising instructions for:
for each track of a plurality of tracks consumed by a user of the media-providing service:
receiving, over a time window, an indication of user selection of the track to compile a listening history of the user with the media-providing service; and
determining, based on the listening history of the user with the media-providing service, whether the track has previously been consumed by the user;

determining, for the user, a discover score corresponding to an average preference of the user for selecting previously unconsumed tracks;
determining whether an amount of use of the media-providing service by the user satisfies a use threshold; and
in response to determining that the amount of use of the media-providing service by the user does not satisfy the use threshold, forgoing recommending tracks to the user based on the discovery score.

15. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing one or more programs configured for execution by an electronic device associated with a media-providing service, the one or more programs comprising instructions for:
for each track of a plurality of tracks consumed by a user of the media-providing service:
receiving, over a time window, an indication of user selection of the track to compile a listening history of the user with the media-providing service; and
determining, based on the listening history of the user with the media-providing service, whether the track has previously been consumed by the user;

determining, for the user, a discovery score corresponding to an average preference of the user for selecting previously unconsumed tracks;
determining whether an amount of use of the media-providing service by the user satisfies a use threshold; and
in response to determining that the amount of use of the media-providing service by the user does not satisfy the use threshold, forgoing recommending tracks to the user based on the discovery score.

Assignees

• Spotify Ab

Inventors

• Gibson Clay
• Shapiro Will
• Gil Santiago
• Anderson Ian
• Mpossi Margreth
• Semerci Oguz
• Wolf Scott
• Lacker Benjamin

Classifications

• H04L67/535 Primary

  Tracking the activity of the user (network monitoring arrangements H04L43/00; recording of computer activity G06F11/34) · CPC title

• H04L65/61

  for supporting one-way streaming services, e.g. Internet radio · CPC title

• H04L65/762

  at the source  (reformatting of additional data in video distribution servers H04N21/2355) · CPC title

• G06F16/24578

  using ranking · CPC title

• G06F16/635

  Filtering based on additional data, e.g. user or group profiles · CPC title