Patent ID: 9361645
Filing Date: 2016-06-07
CPC Classification: G06F,G06N,G06Q,H04H,H04L,H04N

Claim Text:
1. A method of providing an Internet Radio Service, comprising: receiving at least one musical preference of a user indicative of musical tastes of the user; receiving a discovery preference of the user indicative of a preferred mixture of new music and music generated based on the at least one musical preference of the user, wherein the discovery preference is selected by the user from at least two discovery preferences including a first discovery preference to increase the discovery of new music and a second discovery preference to decrease the discovery of new music; generating a personalized Internet radio station for broadcast via a computer network to a user of a plurality of users, the generating of the personalized Internet radio station being based on the at least one musical preference and the discovery preference, including automatically adapting over time the songs generated by the personalized Internet radio station by using the discovery preference as a factor to adjust a rate at which new music is discovered for the user; and transmitting a data stream, by at least one server computer, providing access to songs of the personalized Internet radio station to a client device of the user.