Josh A Flowers, 53Los Gatos, CA

2010007, Mar 25, 2010

Sep 30, 2008

12/242728

Patrick Gates - San Francisco CA, US
Richard Frederick Wagner - San Francisco CA, US
Jeremy Werner - Burlingame CA, US
Andrew Wadycki - Santa Clara CA, US
Josh Flowers - San Mateo CA, US

Apple Inc. - Cupertino CA

G06F 17/30

707749, 707E17044

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.

2010007, Mar 25, 2010

Sep 30, 2008

12/242758

Patrick Gates - San Francisco CA, US
Richard Frederick Wagner - San Francisco CA, US
Jeremy Werner - Burlingame CA, US
Andrew Wadycki - Santa Clara CA, US
Josh Flowers - San Mateo CA, US
Stephen A. Davis - Los Gatos CA, US
Jeffrey S. Miller - Mountain View CA, US

Apple Inc. - Cupertino CA

G06F 17/30

707749, 707E17017

System, method and computer program that encompasses one or more client devices cooperating with a program host's on-line data processing center to generate media playlists. Data is transmitted from a program participant's client device to the processing center and is representative of media inventory in a media library on the client device and includes identification data of contained individual media items. Data is further received from a plurality of program participants representative of each respective program participant's media inventory, regardless of the source of the members of the inventory. Co-occurrence of pairs of individual media items in different program participants' media libraries is determined and 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. From this, a media playlist is generated.

2010007, Mar 18, 2010

Sep 30, 2008

12/242735

Patrick Gates - San Francisco CA, US
Richard Frederick Wagner - San Francisco CA, US
Jeremy Werner - Burlingame CA, US
Andrew Wadycki - Santa Clara CA, US
Josh Flowers - San Mateo CA, US
Stephen A. Davis - Los Gatos CA, US
Jeffrey S. Miller - Mountain View CA, US

Apple Inc. - Cupertino CA

G06F 17/30
G06F 3/048

715810, 707E17014

System, method and computer program for facilitating media playlist generation based at least in part on media library inventory information provided by a plurality of program participants. Data is transmitted from a program participant's client device indicative of media inventory in a media library of the program participant. Media item similarity ratings are received at the client device that have been compiled based on cumulative data collected from a plurality of program participants, including identification data of individual media items contained in media libraries of the program participants regardless of each individual media item's source. Similarity ratings compilation includes processing the cumulative data to determine an incidence of co-occurrence of pairs of individual media items in different program participants' media libraries and making an assignment of a similarity rating based on the determined incidence of co-occurrence.