System and method for presenting music to consumers
AssigneeRovi Technologies Corporation
InventorsRehan M. Khan, Marc Mathys, Christian Pirkner, Thomas R. Sulzer
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Abstract
The present invention provides a computer-implemented method and system for providing user requested music. The method comprises of receiving user input that defines a plurality of music search parameters. Some of the music search parameters may describe music content attributes. Thereafter, the process searches for music samples based upon the user provided search parameters. The process then presents music samples to the user. The method also determines if the user wants to buy any of the presented music samples, a set of music samples similar to the music purchased and/or a set of music samples different than the music bought.
Claims32
A method for presenting user requested music via an interface, comprising:
- receiving a search query defining a plurality of music search parameters including one attribute corresponding to a genre and at least one attribute corresponding to an emotional quality of music content, wherein the emotional quality indicates whether the music content is at least one of intense, happy, sad, mellow, romantic, heartbreaking, aggressive, and upbeat;
- searching, by a processor, for one or more music samples based upon at least one similarity between the attribute corresponding to the genre and at least one feature vector assigned to the one or more music samples, and the at least one attribute corresponding to an emotional quality of music content and at least one feature vector assigned to the one or more music samples;
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- presenting via the interface the one or more music samples to the user based upon the searching.
A method for presenting user requested music via an interface, comprising:
- receiving a search query defining a plurality of music search parameters including one attribute corresponding to a genre and at least one attribute corresponding to a situational quality of music content, wherein the situational quality indicates whether the music content is for at least one of a workout, a shopping mall, a dinner party, a dance party, a slow dance, and for studying;
- searching, by a processor, for music samples based upon at least one similarity between the attribute corresponding to the genre and at least one feature vector assigned to the one or more music samples, and the at least one attribute corresponding to the situational quality of music content and at least one feature vector assigned to the one or more music samples;
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- presenting via the interface one or more music samples to the user based upon the searching.
A method for presenting user requested music via an interface, comprising:
- receiving a search query defining a plurality of music search parameters including one attribute corresponding to a genre and at least one attribute corresponding to a sound quality vector of the user requested music, wherein the sound quality vector indicates whether the music content has at least one of a strong beat, a simple beat, a groove-type rhythm, a speech like sound, and an emphasis on a melody;
- searching, by a processor, for music samples based upon at least one similarity between the attribute corresponding to the genre and at least one feature vector assigned to the one or more music samples, and the at least one attribute corresponding to the sound quality vector of the user requested music and at least one feature vector assigned to the one or more music samples;
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- presenting via the interface one or more music samples to the user based upon the searching.
A method for presenting user requested music via an interface, comprising:
- receiving a search query defining a plurality of music search parameters including one attribute corresponding to a genre and at least one attribute corresponding to a vocal quality of music content, wherein the vocal quality indicates whether the music content includes at least one of a sexy voice, a smooth voice, a powerful voice, a great voice and a soulful voice;
- searching, by a processor, for music samples based upon at least one similarity between the attribute corresponding to the genre and at least one feature vector assigned to the one or more music samples, and the at least one attribute corresponding to the vocal quality of music content and at least one feature vector assigned to the one or more music samples;
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- presenting via the interface one or more music samples to the user based upon the searching.
A non-transitory computer-readable medium having stored thereon sequences of instructions, the sequences of instructions including instructions which when executed by a computer system causes the computer system to perform:
- receiving a search query defining a plurality of music search parameters including one attribute corresponding to a genre and at least one attribute corresponding to an emotional quality of music content, wherein the emotional quality indicates whether the music content is at least one of intense, happy, sad, mellow, romantic, heartbreaking, aggressive, and upbeat;
- searching, by a processor, for one or more music samples based upon at least one similarity between the attribute corresponding to the genre and at least one feature vector assigned to the one or more music samples, and the at least one attribute corresponding to an emotional quality of music content and at least one feature vector assigned to the one or more music samples;
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- presenting via an interface the one or more music samples to the user based upon the searching.
A non-transitory computer-readable medium having stored thereon sequences of instructions, the sequences of instructions including instructions which when executed by a computer system causes the computer system to perform:
- receiving a search query defining a plurality of music search parameters including one attribute corresponding to a genre and at least one attribute corresponding to a situational quality of music content, wherein the situational quality indicates whether the music content is for at least one of a workout, a shopping mall, a dinner party, a dance party, a slow dance, and for studying;
- searching, by a processor, for music samples based upon at least one similarity between the attribute corresponding to the genre and at least one feature vector assigned to the one or more music samples, and the at least one attribute corresponding to the situational quality of music content and at least one feature vector assigned to the one or more music samples;
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- presenting via an interface one or more music samples to the user based upon the searching.
A non-transitory computer-readable medium having stored thereon sequences of instructions, the sequences of instructions including instructions which when executed by a computer system causes the computer system to perform:
- receiving a search query defining a plurality of music search parameters including one attribute corresponding to a genre and at least one attribute corresponding to a sound quality vector of the user requested music, wherein the sound quality vector indicates whether the music content has at least one of a strong beat, a simple beat, a groove-type rhythm, a speech like sound, and an emphasis on a melody;
- searching, by a processor, for music samples based upon at least one similarity between the attribute corresponding to the genre and at least one feature vector assigned to the one or more music samples, and the at least one attribute corresponding to the sound quality vector of the user requested music and at least one feature vector assigned to the one or more music samples;
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- presenting via an interface one or more music samples to the user based upon the searching.
A non-transitory computer-readable medium having stored thereon sequences of instructions, the sequences of instructions including instructions which when executed by a computer system causes the computer system to perform:
- receiving a search query defining a plurality of music search parameters including one attribute corresponding to a genre and at least one attribute corresponding to a vocal quality of music content, wherein the vocal quality indicates whether the music content includes at least one of a sexy voice, a smooth voice, a powerful voice, a great voice and a soulful voice;
- searching, by a processor, for music samples based upon at least one similarity between the attribute corresponding to the genre and at least one feature vector assigned to the one or more music samples, and the at least one attribute corresponding to the vocal quality of music content and at least one feature vector assigned to the one or more music samples;
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- presenting via an interface one or more music samples to the user based upon the searching.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.