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US 9,514,476 B2Granted
Systems and methods for discovering artists
AssigneeViacom International Inc.
InventorsPeter Kay, Mark Mezrich, Daniel Shearer, Ryan Shafer
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Abstract
A musician discovery system is provided. The musician discovery system includes a first interface for displaying a plurality of musicians organized according to a musical characteristic. The system includes a second interface for presenting multimedia information about a first musician from the plurality of musicians displayed on the first interface. The system includes means for comparing a second plurality of musicians with the first musician using the multimedia information presented on the second interface about the first musician. Furthermore, the system includes a third interface for recommending a second musician from the second plurality of musicians based on the comparing means.
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A musician discovery system comprising:
- a computing device configured to display user interfaces to a user;
- a first interface displayed by the computing device for displaying a plurality of first musicians organized according to a musical characteristic, the first musicians being determined by an external media source in response to a query from the user, each of the first musicians being determined when a respective first computed score is above a first threshold value;
- a plurality of separated regions arranged within the first interface each of which is dedicated to one of the first musicians, wherein, upon selection of a first separated region corresponding to a first one of the first musicians, the first separated region expands to present first multimedia information about the first musician, the expanded first separated region displacing an adjacent separated region corresponding to a further one of the first musicians;
- a selectable region displayed within the expanded first separated region, the selectable region, when selected by the user, causing the computing device to access the external media source to retrieve a plurality of second musicians, the first computed score for each of the second musicians being below the first threshold value, and the computing device comparing multimedia information associated with the second musicians with the first multimedia information presented on the expanded separated region about the first one of the first musicians to generate a second computed score;
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- a second interface displayed by the computing device recommending a selected one of the second musicians when the second computed score is above a second threshold value.
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A computer-assisted method for discovering musicians, the method comprising:
- selecting a plurality of first musicians from a library database in response to a query from a user, each of the first musicians being determined when a first computed score is above a first threshold value;
- organizing the first musicians according to at least one musical characteristic along a plurality of separated regions arranged within a first interface, each of the separated regions being dedicated to one of the first musicians;
- permitting the user to select a first one of the first musicians by selecting a first separated region corresponding to the first one of the first musicians;
- upon selection of the first separated region by the user, expanding the first separated region to present first multimedia information about the first one of the first musicians to the user collected from a plurality of external media sources in communication with the library database, wherein the expanded first separated region displaces an adjacent separated region corresponding to a further one of the first musicians;
- comparing multimedia information associated with a plurality of second musicians from the library database with the first multimedia information associated with the first one of the first musicians to determine their similarity with the first musician to generate a second computed score, the first computed score for each of the second musicians being below the first threshold value;
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- recommending a selected one of the second musicians to the user when the second computed score is above a second threshold value.
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A computer-assisted method for discovering musicians, the method comprising:
- selecting a first plurality of musicians from a library database in response to a query from a user based upon popularity scores assigned to each of the first plurality of musicians;
- ranking the first plurality of musicians according to the popularity scores;
- displaying one or more musicians from the first plurality of musicians in a respective separated region in a first interface, the one or more displayed musicians having popularity scores above a first threshold value;
- receiving a selection from the user selecting a first musician in a first separated region from the one or more displayed musicians;
- expanding the first separated region to present multimedia information about the first musician to the user, the multimedia information collected from a plurality of external media sources in communication with the library database, the expanded first separated region displacing an adjacent separated region corresponding to a further one of the first musicians;
- receiving a further selection from the user from a selectable region displayed within the expanded first separated region;
- comparing a second plurality of musicians from the library database with the first musician to determine their similarity or dissimilarity with the first musician, each of the second plurality of musicians having popularity scores below the first threshold value, the comparison generating one of a similarity score and a dissimilarity score;
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- recommending a second musician from the second plurality of musicians to the user on a second interface, when one of the similarity score is above a similarity threshold value and when the dissimilarity score is above a dissimilarity threshold value.
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