Generating a customized social-driven playlist

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12411650-B2
Application number	US-202318182667-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 13, 2023
Priority date	Jun 27, 2018
Publication date	Sep 9, 2025
Grant date	Sep 9, 2025

Abstract

Generating a customized playlist may include identifying a user account for which a playlist is to be generated, where the user account is associated with a user listening history, a taste profile, and a social profile, identifying one or more friend accounts linked to the user account based on the social profile, obtaining an indication of a plurality of songs associated with one or more of the friend accounts, determining a listening history for the one or more plurality of songs based on the friend accounts, obtaining a subset of the plurality of songs based on the listening history of the plurality of songs, and generating a playlist from the subset of the plurality of songs.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising computer readable code executable by one or more processors to:
identify a user account for which a playlist is to be generated, wherein the user account is associated with at least one social profile of a plurality of social profiles;
identify a subset of the plurality of social profiles corresponding to one or more friend accounts linked to the user account in accordance with a connection between the social profile associated with the user account and the subset of the plurality of social profiles;
determine an affinity score for each of the one or more friend accounts based on a similarity in taste profile between the user account and the corresponding one or more friend accounts, and a predetermined social relationship between the user account and the corresponding one or more friend accounts, for each friend account;
generate a library comprising a plurality of songs associated with the subset of the plurality of social profiles;
weight a relevance score for each of the plurality of songs in the library based on the affinity score for a friend account from which each of the plurality of songs belong, and a number of one or more friend accounts associated with each of the plurality of songs;
select a subset of the plurality of songs from the library based on the weighted relevance scores; and
generate the playlist from the selected subset of the plurality of songs.

2. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 1 , further comprising computer readable code to:
generate a user interface for the playlist comprising a graphical representation of one or more songs of the playlist with a graphical indication of the one or more friend accounts from which the one or more songs were obtained.

3. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 1 , further comprising computer readable code to:
determine the affinity score for each friend account based on relationship data, wherein relationship data includes one or more of account interaction and relationship level indicated by the respective social profiles,
wherein the plurality of songs is selected from one or more friend accounts associated with an affinity score that satisfies a predetermined threshold.

4. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 1 , further comprising computer readable code to:
rank the one or more friend accounts based on their respective affinity scores; and
select a subset of friend accounts from a top of the ranked one or more friend accounts based on a number of songs associated with the one or more friend accounts constituting a threshold number of songs.

5. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 1 , wherein the determined affinity scores for friend accounts of family members are weighted more heavily than affinity scores for friend accounts of non-family members.

6. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 1 , further comprising computer readable code to:
receive a feedback indication for a particular song of the plurality of songs from the user account; and
modify the affinity score for the friend account from which the particular song was obtained based on the feedback indication.

7. A method for generating a playlist, the method, with at least one computing device, comprising:
identifying a user account for which a playlist is to be generated, wherein the user account is associated with at least one social profile of a plurality of social profiles;
identifying a subset of the plurality of social profiles corresponding to one or more friend accounts linked to the user account in accordance with a connection between the social profile associated with the user account and the subset of the plurality of social profiles;
determining an affinity score for each of the one or more friend accounts based on a similarity in taste profile between the user account and the corresponding one or more friend accounts, and a predetermined social relationship between the user account and the corresponding one or more friend accounts, for each friend account;
generating a library comprising a plurality of songs associated with the subset of the plurality of social profiles;
weighting a relevance score for each of the plurality of songs in the library based on the affinity score for a friend account from which each of the plurality of songs belong, and a number of one or more friend accounts associated with each of the plurality of songs;
selecting a subset of the plurality of songs from the library based on the weighted relevance scores; and
generating the playlist from the selected subset of the plurality of songs.

8. The method of claim 7 , further comprising:
generating a user interface for the playlist comprising a graphical representation of one or more songs of the playlist with a graphical indication of the one or more friend accounts from which the one or more songs were obtained.

9. The method of claim 7 , further comprising:
determining the affinity score for each friend account based on relationship data, wherein relationship data includes one or more of account interaction and relationship level indicated by the respective social profiles,
wherein the plurality of songs is selected from one or more friend accounts associated with an affinity score that satisfies a predetermined threshold.

10. The method of claim 7 , further comprising:
ranking the one or more friend accounts based on their respective affinity scores; and
selecting a subset of friend accounts from a top of the ranked one or more friend accounts based on a number of songs associated with the one or more friend accounts constituting a threshold number of songs.

11. The method of claim 7 , wherein the determined affinity scores for friend accounts of family members are weighted more heavily than affinity scores for friend accounts of non-family members.

12. The method of claim 7 , further comprising:
receiving a feedback indication for a particular song of the plurality of songs from the user account; and
modify the affinity score for the friend account from which the particular song was obtained based on the feedback indication.

13. A system for generating a playlist, comprising:
one or more processors; and
one or more computer readable media comprising computer readable code executable by the one or more processors to:
identifying a subset of the plurality of social profiles corresponding to one or more friend accounts linked to the user account in accordance with a connection between the social profile associated with the user account and the subset of the plurality of social profiles;
determining an affinity score for each of the one or more friend accounts based on a similarity in taste profile between the user account and the corresponding one or more friend accounts, and a predetermined social relationship between the user account and the corresponding one or more friend accounts, for each friend account;
generating a library comprising a plurality of songs associated with the subset of the plurality of social profiles;
weighting a relevance score for each of the plurality of songs in the library based on the affinity score for a friend account from which each of the plurality of songs belong, and a number of one or more friend accounts associated with each of the plurality of songs;
selecting a subset of the plurality of songs from the library based on the weighted relevance scores; and
generating the playlist from the selected subset of the plurality of songs.

14. The system of claim 13 , further comprising computer

Assignees

• Apple Inc

Inventors

• Dundar Bekir B
• Shenoy Arvind S
• Cartoon Daniel
• Chen Denise L
• Domm Drew R
• Vinna Fredric R
• Levy Mark H
• Irvine Paul C
• MUSTAFI Priyo
• Alsina Thomas
• Lindholm Erik
• Schoberl Uli M

Classifications

• H04L67/535

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

• G06F16/639

  using playlists · CPC title

• G06F3/0482

  Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus · CPC title

• G06F16/24578

  using ranking · CPC title

• H04L67/306 Primary

  User profiles · CPC title