Patent Document ID: 7678984
Application ID: 11250085

Base Claim:
1. A method for automatically generating playlists of audio files, the method comprising: collecting a plurality of audio file playlists into a playlist database, wherein each audio file playlist indicates an ordered sequence of audio files; generating an N-gram statistical model of the audio file playlists in the playlist database, wherein the N-gram statistical model models ordering sequences of the audio files indicated in the playlists; receiving a request to generate a new playlist; and in response to receiving the request: determining an initial ordered sequence of one or more audio files; and generating a new playlist comprising an ordered sequence including an indication of one or more of the audio files from the playlist database, wherein said generating a new playlist comprises applying the initial ordered sequence to the N-gram statistical model.

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Claim 13:
13. The method as recited in claim 1 , further comprising: receiving user-specific data indicating one or more audio file listening preferences of a user that generated the request; and in said generating a new playlist comprising an ordered sequence including an indication of one or more of the audio files from the playlist database, weighting selection of the one or more of the audio files from the playlist database according to one or more of the audio file listening preferences of the user.