Patent ID: 8990203
Filing Date: 2015-03-24
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method for prefetching music for devices, comprising: detecting access to a music library that is associated with a user music account from a device, the music library being managed in cloud music storage; determining a connection speed between the device and a music manager server that manages the cloud music storage; identifying that the device is a mobile device based upon the connection speed; monitoring use activities of selected songs in the music library for the user music account, wherein the use activities of selected songs in the library are adjustable for relevance based on assigned weightings; in response to identifying that the device is a mobile device: identifying one or more songs from the music library that satisfy a prefetching constraint based on the monitored use activities, wherein the one or more songs that satisfy the prefetching constraint are tagged for transfer to the device; transferring the one or more tagged songs to the device, the transferring being initiated without receiving a user initiated request for the one or more tagged songs.