Patent ID: 8410347

Claim:
A music recommendation method with respect to a message inputted by a user, for transmitting via a message service in a personal communication terminal, the method comprising: selecting music files according to a theme of the message, a theme of a music, and a mood of the music, determining whether the number of selected music files is greater than a predetermined number, and, if the number of selected music files is greater than the predetermined number, then further selecting music files from the selected music files according to a similarity between content of the message and content of the music; and recommending the selected music files to the user, wherein the selecting of the music files includes selecting target music files; wherein the selecting of the target music files selects either a music file which is stored in a personal mobile terminal, or is downloadable via an Internet connection; wherein the content of the music is a title and lyrics of the music; wherein the title and the lyrics of the music are classified according to the theme using a feature selected from feature candidates using a mutual information scale, an information acquisition quantity or Chi-square statistic; and wherein the music is classified according to the theme using a result of the classification of the lyrics and a result of the classification of the title.