Patent Document ID: 8650094
Application ID: 12116855

Base Claim:
1. A method, implemented at least in part by a computing device, comprising: defining a vocabulary for emotions; extracting descriptions for one or more songs from web-based information that describes the one or more songs; generating one or more first distributions for the one or more songs in an emotion space based at least in part on the vocabulary and the extracted descriptions; extracting one or more salient words from a document; generating a second distribution for the document in the emotion space based at least in part on the vocabulary and the extracted salient words; and at the computing device, comparing the second distribution for the document to at least one of the first distributions for the one or more songs to provide at least one song recommendation corresponding to the second distribution for the document in the emotion space.

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Claim 13:
13. The method of claim 1 wherein the one or more songs comprise emotional characteristics that match emotional characteristics of the document.