Granted Patent B2

US 12,411,650 · App. 18/182,667 · Granted Sep 9, 2025

Inventors: Bekir B. Dundar (Moraga, CA); Arvind S. Shenoy (San Jose, CA); Daniel Cartoon (South San Francisco, CA); Denise L. Chen (Menlo Park, CA); Drew R. Domm (Oakland, CA); Fredric R. Vinna (San Francisco, CA); Mark H. Levy (Winchester, GB); Paul C. Irvine (Mill Valley, CA); Priyo Mustafi (Fremont, CA); Thomas Alsina (Saratoga, CA); Erik Lindholm (Cupertino, CA); Uli M. Schoberl (San Francisco, CA)

Assignee: Apple Inc.

G06F3/165G06F3/0482G06F16/24578G06F16/639H04L67/306H04L67/535

Abstract

Claims (60)

1. A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising computer readable code executable by one or more processors to:

identify a user account for which a playlist is to be generated, wherein the user account is associated with at least one social profile of a plurality of social profiles;

identify a subset of the plurality of social profiles corresponding to one or more friend accounts linked to the user account in accordance with a connection between the social profile associated with the user account and the subset of the plurality of social profiles;

determine an affinity score for each of the one or more friend accounts based on a similarity in taste profile between the user account and the corresponding one or more friend accounts, and a predetermined social relationship between the user account and the corresponding one or more friend accounts, for each friend account;

generate a library comprising a plurality of songs associated with the subset of the plurality of social profiles;

weight a relevance score for each of the plurality of songs in the library based on the affinity score for a friend account from which each of the plurality of songs belong, and a number of one or more friend accounts associated with each of the plurality of songs;

select a subset of the plurality of songs from the library based on the weighted relevance scores; and

generate the playlist from the selected subset of the plurality of songs.

2. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 1 , further comprising computer readable code to:

generate a user interface for the playlist comprising a graphical representation of one or more songs of the playlist with a graphical indication of the one or more friend accounts from which the one or more songs were obtained.

3. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 1 , further comprising computer readable code to:

determine the affinity score for each friend account based on relationship data, wherein relationship data includes one or more of account interaction and relationship level indicated by the respective social profiles,

wherein the plurality of songs is selected from one or more friend accounts associated with an affinity score that satisfies a predetermined threshold.

4. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 1 , further comprising computer readable code to:

rank the one or more friend accounts based on their respective affinity scores; and

select a subset of friend accounts from a top of the ranked one or more friend accounts based on a number of songs associated with the one or more friend accounts constituting a threshold number of songs.

5. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 1 , wherein the determined affinity scores for friend accounts of family members are weighted more heavily than affinity scores for friend accounts of non-family members.

6. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 1 , further comprising computer readable code to:

receive a feedback indication for a particular song of the plurality of songs from the user account; and

modify the affinity score for the friend account from which the particular song was obtained based on the feedback indication.

7. A method for generating a playlist, the method, with at least one computing device, comprising:

identifying a user account for which a playlist is to be generated, wherein the user account is associated with at least one social profile of a plurality of social profiles;

identifying a subset of the plurality of social profiles corresponding to one or more friend accounts linked to the user account in accordance with a connection between the social profile associated with the user account and the subset of the plurality of social profiles;

determining an affinity score for each of the one or more friend accounts based on a similarity in taste profile between the user account and the corresponding one or more friend accounts, and a predetermined social relationship between the user account and the corresponding one or more friend accounts, for each friend account;

generating a library comprising a plurality of songs associated with the subset of the plurality of social profiles;

weighting a relevance score for each of the plurality of songs in the library based on the affinity score for a friend account from which each of the plurality of songs belong, and a number of one or more friend accounts associated with each of the plurality of songs;

selecting a subset of the plurality of songs from the library based on the weighted relevance scores; and

generating the playlist from the selected subset of the plurality of songs.

8. The method of claim 7 , further comprising:

generating a user interface for the playlist comprising a graphical representation of one or more songs of the playlist with a graphical indication of the one or more friend accounts from which the one or more songs were obtained.

9. The method of claim 7 , further comprising:

determining the affinity score for each friend account based on relationship data, wherein relationship data includes one or more of account interaction and relationship level indicated by the respective social profiles,

wherein the plurality of songs is selected from one or more friend accounts associated with an affinity score that satisfies a predetermined threshold.

10. The method of claim 7 , further comprising:

ranking the one or more friend accounts based on their respective affinity scores; and

selecting a subset of friend accounts from a top of the ranked one or more friend accounts based on a number of songs associated with the one or more friend accounts constituting a threshold number of songs.

11. The method of claim 7 , wherein the determined affinity scores for friend accounts of family members are weighted more heavily than affinity scores for friend accounts of non-family members.

12. The method of claim 7 , further comprising:

receiving a feedback indication for a particular song of the plurality of songs from the user account; and

modify the affinity score for the friend account from which the particular song was obtained based on the feedback indication.

13. A system for generating a playlist, comprising:

one or more processors; and

one or more computer readable media comprising computer readable code executable by the one or more processors to:

identifying a subset of the plurality of social profiles corresponding to one or more friend accounts linked to the user account in accordance with a connection between the social profile associated with the user account and the subset of the plurality of social profiles;

determining an affinity score for each of the one or more friend accounts based on a similarity in taste profile between the user account and the corresponding one or more friend accounts, and a predetermined social relationship between the user account and the corresponding one or more friend accounts, for each friend account;

generating a library comprising a plurality of songs associated with the subset of the plurality of social profiles;

weighting a relevance score for each of the plurality of songs in the library based on the affinity score for a friend account from which each of the plurality of songs belong, and a number of one or more friend accounts associated with each of the plurality of songs;

selecting a subset of the plurality of songs from the library based on the weighted relevance scores; and

generating the playlist from the selected subset of the plurality of songs.

14. The system of claim 13 , further comprising computer readable code executable by the one or more processors to:

generate a user interface for the playlist comprising a graphical representation of one or more songs of the playlist with a graphical indication of the one or more friend accounts from which the one or more songs were obtained.

15. The system of claim 13 , further comprising computer readable code executable by the one or more processors to:

determine the affinity score for each friend account based on relationship data, wherein relationship data includes one or more of account interaction and relationship level indicated by the respective social profiles,

wherein the plurality of songs is selected from one or more friend accounts associated with an affinity score that satisfies a predetermined threshold.

16. The system of claim 13 , further comprising computer readable code executable by the one or more processors to:

rank the one or more friend accounts based on their respective affinity scores; and

select a subset of friend accounts from a top of the ranked one or more friend accounts based on a number of songs associated with the one or more friend accounts constituting a threshold number of songs.

17. The system of claim 13 , further comprising computer readable code executable by the one or more processors to:

receive a feedback indication for a particular song of the plurality of songs from the user account; and

modify the affinity score for the friend account from which the particular song was obtained based on the feedback indication.

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