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US 9,002,879 B2Granted
Method for sharing and searching playlists
AssigneeYahoo! Inc.
InventorsMichael Spiegelman, David E. Brown, Lori Ann Sutton, Pierre Schiro, Christa Maria Stelzmuller, Siddhartha S. Sahay, Daniel Baird, Adam Korman, Alexander Stephen Toth, III, Poorna Chandra Gowda Bannikuppe Ramachandra, Bipin Suresh
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Abstract
The present disclosure provides a method for making a playlist available to the public. In another embodiment, the present disclosure provides a method for creating a playlist comprising user-defined descriptor information. In another embodiment, the present disclosure provides a method for searching for such public playlists.
Claims19
A method, comprising:
- receiving an indication of a desire to identify a playlist at a computing platform, wherein the indication includes one or more search criteria;
- and
- searching a playlist storage utilizing a processor of the computing platform to identify a desired playlist result set comprising one or more user-published playlists, the one or more user-published playlists individually comprising user-provided text describing a user's understanding, perception, and feelings toward the playlist, wherein said searching the playlist storage comprises searching the user-provided text according to the one or more search criteria.
A computing device, comprising:
- means for receiving an indication of a desire to identify a playlist, wherein the indication includes one or more search criteria;
- and
- means for searching a playlist storage to identify a desired playlist result set comprising one or more user-published playlists, the one or more user-published playlists individually comprising user-provided text describing a user's understanding, perception, and/or feelings toward the playlist, wherein said means for searching the playlist storage comprises means for searching the user-provided text according to the one or more search criteria.
An article, comprising:
- a non-transitory storage medium having stored thereon instructions executable by a processor of a computing device to:
- obtain an indication of a desire to identify a playlist from a client computing device, wherein the indication includes one or more search criteria;
- and
- search a playlist storage to identify a desired playlist result set comprising one or more user-published playlists, the one or more user-published playlists individually comprising user-provided text describing a user's understanding, perception, and/or feelings toward the playlist, wherein the storage medium has stored thereon further instructions to search the playlist storage at least in part by searching the user-provided text according to the one or more search criteria.
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