Media content item recommendation system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12277178-B2
Application number	US-202318322209-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 23, 2023
Priority date	Dec 30, 2016
Publication date	Apr 15, 2025
Grant date	Apr 15, 2025

Abstract

A media content item recommendation system recommends media content items based on one or more attributes of a seed playlist. The recommended media content items can be determined from a plurality of existing playlists that have been created over a period of time. Such existing playlists can be selected based on similarity to the seed playlist.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method comprising:
generating a user interface on a computing device, the user interface including a playlist section that presents a playlist;
tracking how many times media content items having one or more particular attributes have been recommended to a user for playlist inclusion and, responsive to being recommended to the user for playlist inclusion, have not been selected by the user for playlist inclusion;
based on the tracking, establishing a score for the one or more particular attributes; and
using the established score as a basis to control what media content items to present in the user interface as a set of recommended media content items for addition to the playlist.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein tracking how many times media content items having one or more particular attributes have been recommended to the user for playlist inclusion and, responsive to being recommended to the user for playlist inclusion, have not been selected by the user for playlist inclusion comprises:
tracking how many times media content items having the one or more particular attributes have been presented to the user in different lists of recommended media content and have been ignored by the user.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the one or more particular attributes includes an artist attribute.

4. The method of claim 3 , wherein the artist attribute is obtained from an artist name associated with an artist.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein using the established score as a basis to control what media content items to present in the user interface as the set of recommended media content items for addition to the playlist comprises:
using the established score as a basis to adjust a likelihood of including, in the set of recommended media content items, media content items that have the one or more particular attributes.

6. The method of claim 1 , further comprising enabling the user to preview the set of recommended media content items.

7. The method of claim 1 , further comprising receiving an input from the user via a control element to play back or preview media content not selected by the user for playlist inclusion.

8. The method of claim 1 , further comprising automatically updating the set of recommended media content items to include media content items having one or more given attributes when a user playback frequency associated with the one or more given attributes is above a threshold value.

9. A system for controlling recommendation of media content items for addition to a playlist, the system comprising:
one or more processors; and
non-transitory computer readable storage having stored thereon instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the system to carry out operations including:
generating a user interface on a computing device, the user interface including a playlist section that presents a playlist,
tracking how many times media content items having one or more particular attributes have been recommended to a user for playlist inclusion and, responsive to being recommended to the user for playlist inclusion, have not been selected by the user for playlist inclusion,
based on the tracking, establishing a score for the one or more particular attributes, and
using the established score as a basis to control what media content items to present in the user interface as a set of recommended media content items for addition to the playlist.

10. The system of claim 9 , wherein tracking how many times media content items having one or more particular attributes have been recommended to the user for playlist inclusion and, responsive to being recommended to the user for playlist inclusion, have not been selected by the user for playlist inclusion comprises:
tracking how many times media content items having the one or more particular attributes have been presented to the user in different lists of recommended media content and have been ignored by the user.

11. The system of claim 9 , wherein the one or more particular attributes includes an artist attribute.

12. The system of claim 11 , wherein the artist attribute is obtained from an artist name associated with an artist.

13. The system of claim 9 , wherein using the established score as a basis to control what media content items to present in the user interface as a set of recommended media content items for addition to the playlist comprises:
using the established score as a basis to adjust a likelihood of including, in the set of recommended media content items, media content items that have the one or more particular attributes.

14. The system of claim 9 , wherein the operations additionally include enabling the user to preview the set of recommended media content items.

15. The system of claim 9 , wherein the operations additionally include receiving an input from the user via a control element to play back or preview media content not selected by the user for playlist inclusion.

16. The system of claim 9 , wherein the operations additionally include automatically updating the set of recommended media content items to include media content items having one or more given attributes when a user playback frequency associated with the one or more given attributes is above a threshold value.

17. Non-transitory computer-readable storage having stored thereon instructions that, when executed by one or more processors cause execution of operations comprising:
generating a user interface on a computing device, the user interface including a playlist section that presents a playlist;
tracking how many times media content items having one or more particular attributes have been recommended to a user for playlist inclusion and, responsive to being recommended to the user for playlist inclusion, have not been selected by the user for playlist inclusion;
based on the tracking, establishing a score for the one or more particular attributes; and
using the established score as a basis to control what media content items to present in the user interface as a set of recommended media content items for addition to the playlist.

18. The non-transitory computer-readable storage of claim 17 , wherein tracking how many times media content items having one or more particular attributes have been recommended to the user for playlist inclusion and, responsive to being recommended to the user for playlist inclusion, have not been selected by the user for playlist inclusion comprises:
tracking how many times media content items having the one or more particular attributes have been presented to the user in different lists of recommended media content and have been ignored by the user.

19. The non-transitory computer-readable storage of claim 17 , wherein the one or more particular attributes includes an artist attribute.

20. The non-transitory computer-readable storage of claim 17 , wherein using the established score as a basis to control what media content items to present in the user interface as a set of recommended media content items for addition to the playlist comprises:
using the established score as a basis to adjust a likelihood of including, in the set of recommended media content items, media content items that have the one or more particular attributes.

Assignees

• Spotify Ab

Inventors

• Lamere Paul
• Marmor Jonathan
• Ackerman Michelle
• Lindstrand Per
• Söderlund Oscar
• Johansson Mattias
• Waller Jacob Colin
• Carvalho Felipe Oliveira
• Westraeus Camilla
• Öhman Michael

Classifications

• G06F16/4387

  by the use of playlists · CPC title

• G06F16/435 Primary

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

• G06F16/90324 Primary

  using system suggestions · CPC title