Patent ID: 8914384
Filing Date: 2014-12-16
Classification: G06F,G11B

Abstract:
1. A method for generating a media playlist based at least in part on media library inventory information provided by a plurality of program participants, the method comprising: receiving, from a program participant's client device at a program host's on-line data processing center, data representative of media inventory in a media library on the client device and which comprises identification data of individual media items presently contained in the media library on the client device; receiving, from a plurality of other program participants at the program host's on-line data processing center, data representative of each respective other program participant's media inventory and which comprises identification data of individual media items presently contained in each respective other program participant's media library regardless of the individual media items' source, and further comprises data representative of descriptive characteristics of at least a majority of the individual media items contained in the other program participants' media libraries; determining a frequency at which a pair of individual media items co-occur in the other program participants' media libraries, wherein the pair comprises two media items including a seed media item selected from the media library on the client device and at least one different individual media item, and wherein the frequency is determined based on how often the pair is contained in the other program participants' media libraries regardless of prior use of the pair of individual media items by the other program participants; assigning a similarity rating between the pair of different individual media items based on the determined frequency of co-occurrence; and transmitting, from the program host's on-line data processing center to the program participant's client device, the similarity rating relative to the seed media item, to thereby allow a media playlist comprising one or more different individual media items presently contained in the media library on the client device to be generated based on the similarity rating relative to the seed media item.