US 9,288,254 B2Granted

Dynamic playlist for mobile computing device

AssigneeGoogle Inc.

InventorJeffrey A. Sharkey

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Abstract

A method of managing electronic media items includes accessing first geographic information that indicates a first geographic location of a first device; accessing second geographic information that indicates a second geographic location of a second device; determining whether the first device and the second device are within a defined geographic proximity based on the first geographic location and the second geographic location; if the determination indicates that the first device and the second device are within the defined geographic proximity, generating at least one playlist of media items based on a set of media preferences shared between a first user of the first device and a second user of the second device; and sending the playlist to the first device such that the first user is able to select one or more of the media items on the playlist to be output by the first device.

Claims17

Dependent claims

A computer-implemented method comprising:

receiving, by a media server, first data indicating a geographic location of a first device;
receiving, by a media server, second data indicating a geographic location of a second device;
determining, using the media server and based on the first data indicating the geographic location of the first device and the second data indicating the geographic location of the second device, that the first device is within a defined geographic proximity of the second device;
in response to determining that the first device is within the defined geographic proximity of the second device, generating an initial playlist of media items based on a set of media preferences shared between a user of the first device and a user of the second device;
generating, by the media server, (i) a first updated playlist of media items that includes a first subset of the media items in the initial playlist that are accessible to the first device and does not include media items in the initial playlist that are not accessible to the first device, and (ii) a second updated playlist of media items that includes a second subset of the media items in the initial playlist that are accessible to the second device and does not include media items in the initial playlist that are not accessible to the second device;
and
transmitting, by the media server, (i) the first updated playlist of media items to the first device, and (ii) the second updated playlist of media items to the second device.

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A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing software having stored thereon instructions, which, when executed by one or more computers, cause the one or more computers to perform operations of:

receiving, by a media server, first data indicating a geographic location of a first device;
receiving, by a media server, second data indicating a geographic location of a second device;
determining, using the media server and based on the first data indicating the geographic location of the first device and the second data indicating the geographic location of the second device, that the first device is within a defined geographic proximity of the second device;
in response to determining that the first device is within the defined geographic proximity of the second device, generating an initial playlist of media items based on a set of media preferences shared between a user of the first device and a user of the second device;
generating, by the media server, (i) a first updated playlist of media items that includes a first subset of the media items in the initial playlist that are accessible to the first device and does not include media items in the initial playlist that are not accessible to the first device, and (ii) a second updated playlist of media items that includes a second subset of the media items in the initial playlist that are accessible to the second device and does not include media items in the initial playlist that are not accessible to the second device;
and
transmitting, by the media server, (i) the first updated playlist of media items to the first device, and (ii) the second updated playlist of media items to the second device.

4 more elements

A system comprising:

one or more computers and one or more storage devices storing instructions that are operable, when executed by the one or computers, to cause the one or more computers to perform operations comprising:
receiving, by a media server, first data indicating a geographic location of a first device;
receiving, by a media server, second data indicating a geographic location of a second device;
determining, using the media server and based on the first data indicating the geographic location of the first device and the second data indicating the geographic location of the second device, that the first device is within a defined geographic proximity of the second device;
in response to determining that the first device is within the defined geographic proximity of the second device, generating an initial playlist of media items based on a set of media preferences shared between a user of the first device and a user of the second device;
generating, by the media server, (i) a first updated playlist of media items that includes a first subset of the media items in the initial playlist that are accessible to the first device and does not include media items in the initial playlist that are not accessible to the first device, and (ii) a second updated playlist of media items that includes a second subset of the media items in the initial playlist that are accessible to the second device and does not include media items in the initial playlist that are not accessible to the second device;
and
transmitting, by the media server, (i) the first updated playlist of media items to the first device, and (ii) the second updated playlist of media items to the second device.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 14/033,602Filed 23 Sep 2013 · continuation
Priority: 9 May 2011
Published: US 2014/0019596 A116 Jan 2014
Granted: 15 Mar 2016
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification21 codes

H04L 67/02
Protocols: based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
G06F 16/40
Information retrieval; Database structures therefor; File system structures therefor: of multimedia data, e.g. slideshows comprising image and…
G06F 16/4387
Presentation of query results: by the use of playlists
G06F 16/487
Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually: using geographical or…

Family

Application13/103,647Parent of this continuation · filed 9 May 2011
US 2014/0019596 A1Pre-grant publication · published 16 Jan 2014
US 8,661,151 B2Parent of this continuation
US 2012/0290648 A1Published application
US 9,288,254 B2This patent

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