{
  "patent_number": "US 10108619",
  "country": "US",
  "title": "How Streaming Services Automatically Build Custom Radio Stations",
  "original_title": "Station library creaton for a media service",
  "summary": "A method for streaming services to create custom music radio stations by analyzing genre percentages and artist relationships to pick the best songs.",
  "what_it_does": "This patent describes a system that builds a custom music station based on a 'seed,' such as a specific song or artist. It creates a 'station descriptor profile' that acts as a blueprint, breaking down the desired music into specific genre percentages. The system then compares candidate songs against this blueprint using a similarity score, while also applying 'boost values' for factors like language, artist relationships, or release dates. Finally, it selects the songs with the highest combined relevancy scores to populate the station library.",
  "what_it_does_not_cover": [
    "Does not cover manual playlist creation where a human selects every song.",
    "Does not cover simple random shuffling of a user's entire library.",
    "Does not cover hardware-based audio processing or signal compression techniques.",
    "Does not cover social media-based music sharing or peer-to-peer recommendation systems."
  ],
  "filed": "2015-12-31",
  "granted": "2018-10-23",
  "expires": null,
  "status": "active",
  "holder": "Gracenote Inc",
  "holder_url": "https://patentbrief.org/company/gracenote-inc",
  "inventors": [
    {
      "name": "Andrew Silverman",
      "url": "https://patentbrief.org/inventor/andrew-silverman"
    },
    {
      "name": "Peter C. DiMaria",
      "url": "https://patentbrief.org/inventor/peter-c-dimaria"
    }
  ],
  "times_cited": 3,
  "tags": [
    "consumer_electronics",
    "software",
    "ai_ml"
  ],
  "abstract": "A machine may form all or part of a network-based system configured to provide media service to one or more user devices. The machine may be configured to define a station library within a larger collection of media files. In particular, the machine may access metadata that describes a seed that forms the basis on which the station library is to be defined. The machine may determine a genre composition for the station library based on the metadata. The machine may generate a list of media files from the metadata based on a relevance of each media file to the station library. The machine may determine the relevance of each media file based on a similarity of the media file to the genre composition of the station library as well as a comparison of metadata describing the media file to the accessed metadata that describes the seed.",
  "url": "https://patentbrief.org/patent/us/10108619/microsoft-edge-browser",
  "markdown_url": "https://patentbrief.org/patent/us/10108619/microsoft-edge-browser/md",
  "google_patents_url": "https://patents.google.com/patent/US10108619",
  "relatedPatents": []
}