公开(公告)号：AU2009288147B2

公开(公告)日：2012-06-14

申请号：AU2009288147

申请日：2009-09-01

Applicant: APPLE INC

Inventor： GATES PATRICK ,  WAGNER RICHARD FREDERICK ,  WERNER JEREMY ,  WADYCKI ANDREW ,  FLOWERS JOSH ,  DAVIS STEPHEN A ,  MILLER JEFFREY S ,  DUBOIS DANA J

IPC: G06F17/30

Abstract: Methods and arrangements for facilitating media playlist generation for a program participant based at least in part on media library inventory information provided by a number of program participants. The system or program in which the individuals are participating is an on-line media store. Those individuals that decide to be program participants are interested in organizing, maintaining and playing their music, based at least in part, on data derived from a population of other participants in the program that have similar or the same music in their libraries. To be a program participant, the individual music holder must send, and the on-line music store receive, data representative of that program participant's media inventory. This data typically contains identification data of the individual media items presently contained in that participant's media library regardless of the individual media item's source. The system or program determines an incidence of co-occurrence of pairs of individual media items in different program participants' media libraries. Based on this determination, a similarity rating is assigned between the pairs of individual media items based on the determined incidence of co-occurrence in the different program participants' media libraries.

公开(公告)号：AU2010212503A1

公开(公告)日：2011-03-24

申请号：AU2010212503

申请日：2010-08-23

Applicant: APPLE INC

Inventor： GATES PATRICK ,  WERNER JEREMY ,  VYRROS ANDREW H ,  MCCULLOH JOHN ANDREW ,  WAGNER RICHARD FREDERICK ,  STRAHM ERIK DANFORTH

IPC: G06F17/00 ,  G06F7/22 ,  G11B27/02 ,  G11B27/028 ,  G11B27/031

Abstract: A system comprising: a media playing device including a program participant's media library of items; a first server configured to recursively sub-divide a collection of server media items into server clusters of related media items; a second server configured to create one or more media item clusters for a particular program participant from items present in that program participant's media library based on the server clusters by performing a method comprising: determining a collection of media items that co-exist in both the program participant's media library and one or more lowest-level server cluster, and recursively agglomerating, into larger participant clusters by adding media items to the participant clusters that co-exist in both the program participant's media library and parent server clusters until each larger participant clusters comprises at least a determined minimum number of media items; and wherein the media playing device is configured to generate a mix of similar media items for playback based on a selection of media items represented in one of the participant clusters.