Systems and methods for delivering relevant media content by inferring past media content consumption

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11653048-B2
Application number	US-202117178975-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 18, 2021
Priority date	Mar 29, 2019
Publication date	May 16, 2023
Grant date	May 16, 2023

Abstract

Methods, systems, and related products that provide enhanced personalized media content experiences. Past media content consumption is inferred based on requests for media content selection associated with a time or period of time in the past. The requests are fulfilled by selecting one or more media content items from the inferred media content consumption.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A method comprising:
receiving a playback request associated with an account, the playback request including a temporal limitation;
determining a nostalgia level of the playback request based on the temporal limitation;
responsive to determining that the nostalgia level satisfies a recent-nostalgia threshold:
identifying a first media content item to play using a recent playback log; and
initiating playback of the identified first media content item; and

responsive to determining that the nostalgia level satisfies a distant-nostalgia threshold:
identifying a cohort based at least on demographic information associated with the account;
determining a cohort set of second media content items meeting the temporal limitation and having at least a minimum playback rate among members of the cohort;
curating the cohort set based on a taste profile of the account to form a curated set of the second media content items; and
initiating playback of a second media content item from the curated set.

2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising parsing the received playback request into a historical playback component and the temporal limitation.

3. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
inferring a range of time from the temporal limitation; and
determining the cohort set of second media content items based in part on the inferred range of time.

4. The method of claim 3 , further comprising expanding the inferred range of time, and determining the cohort set of second media content items based in part on the expanded inferred range of time.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the curating includes one or more of:
applying artist limitations to the one or more identified second media content items;
applying album limitations to the one or more identified second media content items;
applying a crowding limitation to the one or more identified second media content items;
removing one or more spam media content items from the one or more identified second media content items;
removing one or more karaoke media content items from the one or more identified second media content items;
removing one or more white noise tracks from the one or more identified second media content items;
removing one or more explicit media content items from the one or more identified second media content items;
collapsing two or more media content item versions from the one or more identified second media content items; and
sorting two or more media content items based on affinity.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the identifying the cohort is based at least in part on at least one nostalgia metric associated with the account.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the identifying the cohort is based at least in part on an age of a user of the account.

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein the determining the nostalgia level is based at least in part on an age of a user of the account.

9. The method of claim 1 , wherein the determining the nostalgia level includes selecting the nostalgia level from a nostalgia spectrum.

10. The method of claim 9 , wherein the determining the nostalgia level includes using a nostalgia spectrum index.

11. The method of claim 1 ,
wherein the playback request is received via a voice input device, the method further comprising:
performing natural language understanding of the playback request to identify the temporal limitation.

12. The method of claim 1 , wherein the playback request is received via a manual input device.

Assignees

• Spotify Ab

Inventors

• Cramer Henriette Susanne Martine
• Thom-Santelli Jennifer
• Kothari Neha
• Mennicken Sarah
• Humphreys Karl
• Roy Bryan

Classifications

• H04N21/44222 Primary

  Analytics of user selections, e.g. selection of programmes or purchase activity (monitoring of user selections in data processing systems G06F11/34; arrangements for monitoring the user's behaviour or opinions in broadcast systems H04H60/33) · CPC title

• G06F16/7867

  using information manually generated, e.g. tags, keywords, comments, title and artist information, manually generated time, location and usage information, user ratings · CPC title

• G06F16/686

  using information manually generated, e.g. tags, keywords, comments, title or artist information, time, location or usage information, user ratings · CPC title

• H04N21/2668 Primary

  Creating a channel for a dedicated end-user group, e.g. insertion of targeted commercials based on end-user profiles {(information retrieval from the Internet by querying with filtering and personalisation G06F16/9535; arrangements for replacing or switching information during the broadcast H04H20/10; push services over packet-switching network H04L12/1859; adaptation of message content in packet-switching networks H04L51/063)} · CPC title

• G10L15/1822

  Parsing for meaning understanding · CPC title