Patent Document ID: 9442987
Application ID: 14462071

Base Claim:
1. A method, comprising: controlling an automated album scoring process to acquire static information for a set of albums and to acquire dynamic information for the set of albums; controlling the automated album scoring process to select a genre for which an album recommendation is to be made, to select a region for which the album recommendation is to be made, and to select a demographic for which the album recommendation is to be made; controlling the automated album scoring process to produce a raw score for a member of the set of albums as a function of the static information, the dynamic information, the genre, the region, and the demographic; controlling an automated recommendation process to acquire a set of thresholds associated with recommendations in the music marketplace, and to acquire a set of time constraints associated with recommendations in the music marketplace, where the set of ratios, set of thresholds, and set of time constraints control, at least in part, whether an album will be recommended in the music marketplace; controlling the automated recommendation process to acquire a set of weights that control, at least in part, the relative importance to a recommendation score of the genre, the region, the demographic, members of the set of thresholds, or members of the set of time constraints; controlling the automated recommendation process to produce the recommendation score for the member of the set of albums as a function of the raw score, the set of thresholds, the set of time constraints, and the set of weights; selecting the member of the set of albums as a recommended album based, at least in part, on the recommendation score, and automatically generating editorial content for the music marketplace for the recommended album.

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Claim 12:
12. The method of claim 1 , where the set of weights are user configurable.