Patent ID: 11860677
Assignee: LP MEDICAL LLC
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 13:
14. The method of claim 8, wherein computing a probability distribution of the one or more probability distributions comprises:
forming a directed graph comprising a plurality of nodes and a plurality of directed edges, each node representing a distinct media file and a directed edge from the plurality of directed edges originating from a first node to a second node representing a first media file corresponding to the first node and a second media file corresponding to the second node, wherein the first media file was played for the user of the application before the second media file was played, whereby both media files are played with a positive outcome value of affinity measure m;
assigning a weight, with a scalar value in the range [0,1], to each directed edge based on the time lapse between the time the first media file was played by the user of the application and the time the second media file was played by the user of the media application;
at a time step i, determining a successive score for each node to measure successiveness to a media file corresponding to the node observed at a preceding time step i−1 based on the directed graph;
at the time step i, computing a path score for each node based on the successive score determined at the time step i and a preceding path score computed at the preceding time step i−1; and
computing the probability distribution over the plurality of distinct media files based on the corresponding path score associated with each media file at the time step i.