Media content selected from listening history of social connections

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11386138-B2
Application number	US-202117206282-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 19, 2021
Priority date	Dec 14, 2018
Publication date	Jul 12, 2022
Grant date	Jul 12, 2022

Abstract

Methods, systems, and computer programs for generating a playlist of media content items that are popular with the friends of the first user. A first user taste profile is determined and a user taste profile is determined for each of a plurality of social connections. A similarity score is calculated between the first user taste profile and the user taste profile of each social connection. Media content items consumed by social connections with the highest similarity score are selected and placed in a playlist for the first user.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method of generating a queue of media content items on a media delivery system from listening histories of social connections, for playback to a first user using a user device, the method comprising:
receiving a friends list of the first user from a social media system, the friends list comprising a plurality of first user connections who have elected to be discoverable via a social connection privacy setting;
determining a user subgroup from the friends list that includes users of the media delivery system;
automatically adding the user subgroup as followed users of the first user in the media delivery system;
determining a first user taste profile;
determining user taste profiles for the followed users, the user taste profiles being generated based at least in part on a listening history of the respective followed user;
comparing the first user taste profile with the user taste profiles of the followed users to generate similarity scores representing how similar the first user taste profile is to the user taste profiles of the followed users;
selecting a subset of followed users based on the similarity scores;
identifying a plurality of media content items from the listening histories of the subset of followed users; and
generating the queue of media content items selected from the plurality of media content items.

2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising receiving the friends list of the first user from the social media system is based on a first user privacy setting electing to connect to the social media system.

3. The method of claim 1 , further comprising receiving the friends list of the first user from the social media system in response to determining the first user does not have enough followed users to generate the queue of media content items.

4. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
determining the first user does not have enough followed users to generate the queue of media content items; and
prompting the first user to select an additional user to follow.

5. The method of claim 1 , further comprising determining user taste profiles of the followed users who have elected to share their listening history.

6. The method of claim 1 , further comprising receiving the friends list of the first user from the social media system in response to receiving a first user selection to connect to the social media system.

7. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
receiving a selection to add a followed user to the subset of followed users;
identifying an updated plurality of media content items from the listening histories of the subset of followed users; and
generating an updated queue of media content items selected from the plurality of media content items.

8. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
receiving a selection to remove a followed user from the subset of followed users;
identifying an updated plurality of media content items from the listening histories of the subset of followed users; and
generating an updated queue of media content items selected from the plurality of media content items.

9. A media system comprising at least one processing device and at least one non-transitory computer-readable medium storing data instructions that, when executed by the at least one processing device, cause the media system to:
receive a friends list of a first user from a social media system, the friends list comprising a plurality of first user connections who have elected to be discoverable via a social connection privacy setting;
determine a user subgroup from the friends list that includes users of the media system;
automatically add the user subgroup as followed users of the first user in the media system;
determine a first user taste profile;
determine user taste profiles for the followed users, the user taste profiles being generated based at least in part on a listening history of the respective followed user;
compare the first user taste profile with the user taste profiles of the followed users to generate similarity scores representing how similar the first user taste profile is to the user taste profiles of the followed users;
select a subset of followed users based on the similarity scores;
identify a plurality of media content items from listening histories of the subset of followed users; and
generate a queue of media content items selected from the plurality of media content items.

10. The media system of claim 9 , further comprising data instructions that, when executed by the at least one processing device, cause the media system to generate a user interface comprising a selectable list of followed users.

11. The media system of claim 10 , wherein the selectable list is ordered based on the similarity scores.

12. The media system of claim 10 , wherein the selectable list is ordered alphabetically based on a name of each followed user.

13. The media system of claim 10 , further comprising data instructions that, when executed by the at least one processing device, cause the media system to:
receive a selection to add a followed user to the subset of followed users;
identify an updated plurality of media content items from the listening histories of the subset of followed users; and
generate an updated queue of media content items selected from the plurality of media content items.

14. The media system of claim 10 , further comprising data instructions that, when executed by the at least one media processing device, cause the system to:
receive a selection to remove a followed user from the subset of followed users;
identify an updated plurality of media content items from the listening histories of the subset of followed users; and
generate an updated queue of media content items selected from the plurality of media content items.

15. The media system of claim 10 , wherein the user interface further comprises a search button for searching for users of the media system.

16. The media system of claim 15 , further comprising data instructions that, when executed by the at least one processing device, cause the media system to:
receive a selection of a user of the media system;
add the user of the media system to the followed users; and
display the user of the media system in the selectable list.

17. The media system of claim 16 , further comprising data instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the media system to:
determine the first user does not have enough followed users to generate the queue of media content items; and
prompt the first user to select an additional user to follow using the search button.

18. The media system of claim 9 , wherein:
the friends list is a first friends list;
the social media system is a first social media system;
the plurality of first user connections is a first plurality of user connections; and
the user subgroup is a first user subgroup; and
further comprising data instructions that, when executed by the at least one processing device, cause the media system to:
receive a second friends list of the first user from a second social media system, the second friends list comprising a second plurality of first user connections who have elected to be discoverable via the social connection privacy setting;
determine a second user subgroup from the second friends list that includes users of the media system; and
automatically add the second user subgroup as followed users of the first user in the media system.

19. A method of generating a queue of med

Assignees

• Spotify Ab

Inventors

• Kizelshteyn Mark
• Lamere Paul
• Churray Tracey
• Patel Samit
• Aleksandrowicz Jessica
• Erden Ercan
• Rivero Juan
• Levin Joseph
• Yokoyama Christine

Classifications

• G06F16/433

  using audio data · CPC title

• G06F16/4387 Primary

  by the use of playlists · CPC title

• G06F16/435 Primary

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

• H04L67/306

  User profiles · CPC title

• H04L65/612

  for unicast · CPC title