US Patent Application 18182667. Generating a Customized Social-Driven Playlist simplified abstract

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Generating a Customized Social-Driven Playlist

Organization Name

Apple Inc.


Inventor(s)

Bekir B. Dundar of Moraga CA (US)


Arvind S. Shenoy of San Jose CA (US)


Daniel Cartoon of South San Francisco CA (US)


Denise L. Chen of Menlo Park CA (US)


Drew R. Domm of Oakland CA (US)


Fredric R. Vinna of San Francisco CA (US)


Mark H. Levy (US)


Paul C. Irvine of Mill Valley CA (US)


Priyo Mustafi of Fremont CA (US)


Thomas Alsina of Saratoga CA (US)


Erik Lindholm of Cupertino CA (US)


Uli M. Schoberl of San Francisco CA (US)


Generating a Customized Social-Driven Playlist - A simplified explanation of the abstract

  • This abstract for appeared for US patent application number 18182667 Titled 'Generating a Customized Social-Driven Playlist'

Simplified Explanation

The abstract describes a method for generating a personalized playlist for a user. It involves analyzing the user's listening history, taste preferences, and social connections. The system identifies friends of the user and collects information about the songs they listen to. Based on this information, a subset of songs is selected and used to create a customized playlist for the user.


Original Abstract Submitted

Generating a customized playlist may include identifying a user account for which a playlist is to be generated, where the user account is associated with a user listening history, a taste profile, and a social profile, identifying one or more friend accounts linked to the user account based on the social profile, obtaining an indication of a plurality of songs associated with one or more of the friend accounts, determining a listening history for the one or more plurality of songs based on the friend accounts, obtaining a subset of the plurality of songs based on the listening history of the plurality of songs, and generating a playlist from the subset of the plurality of songs.