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Patent application number | Title | Published |
20140122310 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS REGARDING A PURCHASE DECISION TOOL FOR DETERMINING A FINANCIAL IMPACT OF A PROPOSED PURCHASE - The present describes systems and methods to support financial management by determining the impact of a proposed purchase on a financial situation. For example, a device is configured to determine the impact of a proposed purchase on a user's financial situation based on a purchase amount associated with the proposed purchase. | 05-01-2014 |
20130238709 | SPORTING EVENT IMAGE CAPTURE, PROCESSING AND PUBLICATION - Systems, methods and software are disclosed for capturing and/or importing and processing media items such as digital images or video ( | 09-12-2013 |
20120059751 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGING AND ALLOCATING FUNDS - The application discloses a systems and methods for automatically managing and allocating funds deposited in one or more financial accounts owned by the user. The system allows the user to specify and dynamically modify multiple savings goals and to associate each goal with a savings account. As the user makes deposits or withdrawals from an account, the amount of funds allocated to each of the goals associated with the account are automatically adjusted based on the user's relative preferences for the goals as automatically inferred from the user's interactions with the system. The system may also provide incentive rewards to users as they meet interim subgoals or complete a goal to induce users to successfully achieve their savings goals. | 03-08-2012 |
20110251995 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PRIORITIZING MOBILE MEDIA PLAYER FILES - Disclosed are embodiments of systems and methods for prioritizing mobile media player files by providing for the automated addition and/or deletion of media items for a mobile media player. In some embodiments, a statistical method may be provided for inferring which media items on a mobile media player should be deleted based on, for example, user taste data. In some embodiments, new media items may be loaded onto a user's mobile media player by creating one or more playlists from a playlist builder. The playlist(s) may be created by using user taste data. Rankings may also be created to determine an order for deletion of the media items currently on a mobile media player and/or for addition of new media items to the device. | 10-13-2011 |
20110246497 | USER TO USER RECOMMENDER - Disclosed are embodiments of systems and methods for recommending relevant users to other users in a user community. In one implementation of such a method, two different sets of data are considered: a) music (or other items) that users have been listening to (or otherwise engaging), and b) music (or other items) recommendations that users have been given. In some embodiments, pre-computation methods allow the system to efficiently compare item sets and recommended item sets among the users in the community. Such comparisons may also comprise metrics that the system can use to figure out which users should be recommended for a given target user. | 10-06-2011 |
20110213776 | SYSTEM FOR BROWSING THROUGH A MUSIC CATALOG USING CORRELATION METRICS OF A KNOWLEDGE BASE OF MEDIASETS - A system and method to navigate through a media item catalog and generate recommendations using behavioral metrics such as correlation metrics (FIGS. | 09-01-2011 |
20110125896 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ACQUIRING AND ADDING DATA ON THE PLAYING OF ELEMENTS OR MULTIMEDIA FILES - The invention relates to a system and method for acquiring and aggregating information relating to the reproduction of multimedia files or elements in a database, said data including information relating to the number of multimedia file or element reproductions. The inventive system comprises a plurality of digital devices which can access and reproduce multimedia files and an acquisition and storage device which communicates with each of the digital devices in order to receive data from each of the identification/characterization programs, such that said identification/characterization program can count the reproductions at least in a direct and/or weighted manner. | 05-26-2011 |
20110119127 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROMOTIONAL MEDIA ITEM SELECTION AND PROMOTIONAL PROGRAM UNIT GENERATION - A computer implemented process for generating customized, user-specific programming for delivery over a network, each programming unit comprising one or more media items, such as song tracks, and at least one promotional media item, such as a commercial advertisement. The media items are selected in response to implicit user taste data, and promotional media items or ads are selected where a media item associated with the promotional media item matches at least one media data item identified as responsive to the user taste data. The media items and the promotional media items are selected so as to constrain the promotional program unit to incur a net cost of no more that a selected maximum cost, wherein the net cost is determined as a sum of the licensing costs of the selected media items, reduced by a sum of the expected revenues generated by the selected promotional media items. | 05-19-2011 |
20110099521 | SYSTEM FOR BROWSING THROUGH A MUSIC CATALOG USING CORRELATION METRICS OF A KNOWLEDGE BASE OF MEDIASETS - A system and method to navigate through a media item catalog and generate recommendations using behavioral metrics such as correlation metrics (FIGS. | 04-28-2011 |
20100313167 | SYSTEM FOR BROWSING THROUGH A MUSIC CATALOG USING CORRELATION METRICS OF A KNOWLEDGE BASE OF MEDIASETS - A system and method to navigate through a media item catalog using correlation metrics (FIGS. | 12-09-2010 |
20100268680 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PRIORITIZING MOBILE MEDIA PLAYER FILES - Disclosed are embodiments of systems and methods for prioritizing mobile media player files by providing for the automated addition and/or deletion of media items for a mobile media player. In some embodiments, a statistical method may be provided for inferring which media items on a mobile media player should be deleted based on, for example, user taste data. In some embodiments, new media items may be loaded onto a user's mobile media player by creating one or more playlists from a playlist builder. The playlist(s) may be created by using user taste data. Rankings may also be created to determine an order for deletion of the media items currently on a mobile media player and/or for addition of new media items to the device. | 10-21-2010 |
20100198818 | DYNAMIC IDENTIFICATION OF A NEW SET OF MEDIA ITEMS RESPONSIVE TO AN INPUT MEDIASET - Systems and methods are disclosed for creating a list of media items that are similar to an input mediaset comprising at least one input media item, optionally together with at least one input parameter that constrains the output in scope or number of items. Media items include music, videos, pictures and other such items that can be associated or grouped together by a human into a list or mediaset. The mediaset is formed by a human applying virtually any objective and/or subjective criteria. Those criteria need not be made explicit; a relation among the selected items is implicit in the list per se. Alternatively, objective criteria such as metadata can be used. | 08-05-2010 |
20100191827 | SPORTING EVENT IMAGE CAPTURE, PROCESSING AND PUBLICATION - Systems, methods and software are disclosed for capturing and/or importing and processing media items such as digital images or video ( | 07-29-2010 |
20100169328 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MAKING RECOMMENDATIONS USING MODEL-BASED COLLABORATIVE FILTERING WITH USER COMMUNITIES AND ITEMS COLLECTIONS - Massively scalable, memory and model-based techniques are an important approach for practical large-scale collaborative filtering. We describe a massively scalable, model-based recommender system and method that extends the collaborative filtering techniques by explicitly incorporating these types of user and item knowledge. In addition, we extend the Expectation-Maximization algorithm for learning the conditional probabilities in the model to coherently accommodate time-varying training data. | 07-01-2010 |
20100161595 | RECOMMENDER SYSTEM FOR IDENTIFYING A NEW SET OF MEDIA ITEMS RESPONSIVE TO AN INPUT SET OF MEDIA ITEMS AND KNOWLEDGE BASE METRICS - Systems and methods are disclosed for identifying a new set of media items in response to an input set (or “query set”) of media items and knowledge base metrics. The system uses a knowledge base consisting of a collection of mediasets. Various metrics among media items are considered by analyzing how the media items are grouped to form the mediasets in the knowledge base. Such association or “similarity” metrics are preferably stored in a matrix form that allows the system to efficiently identify a new set of media items that complements the input set of media items. | 06-24-2010 |
20100158315 | SPORTING EVENT IMAGE CAPTURE, PROCESSING AND PUBLICATION - Systems, methods and software are disclosed for capturing and/or importing and processing media items such as digital images or video ( | 06-24-2010 |
20100095212 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR VISUALIZING A MEDIA LIBRARY - Visualizing and exploring a music library using metadata, such as genre, sub-genre, artist, and year, is provided. Geometric shapes, such as disks or rectangles, may be divided into sectors representing genre and each sector may be further divided into sub-sectors representing artists associated with each genre. The sector's relative size generally reflects the importance of the corresponding genre within the library. Likewise, the sub-sector's relative size generally reflects the importance of the corresponding artist within the genre which may be determined by the number of media items of the artist. Marks representing each media item may be arranged and displayed within the geometric shape to reflect the mark's corresponding genre, artist, and year. In addition, each mark may reflect an attribute, such as playcount, of the media item and each sector may reflect the mean value of an attribute of all media items within the sector. | 04-15-2010 |
20100088273 | REAL-TIME VISUALIZATION OF USER CONSUMPTION OF MEDIA ITEMS - A computer implemented method for displaying real-time computer mediated user consumption data, comprising: accessing consumption data corresponding to real-time computer mediated user consumption behavior; parsing the consumption data to identify one or more events comprising one or more instances of consumption data and wherein each event is associated with a user; adding the events to an event stack comprising a predetermined stack limit; and storing the consumption data for each event in a data structure configured to correlate related consumption data and provide a temporal context to the stored consumption data wherein addition of graphical symbols to a visualization display is responsive to the arrangement of the consumption data in the data structure. | 04-08-2010 |
20100017725 | AMBIENT COLLAGE DISPLAY OF DIGITAL MEDIA CONTENT - Disclosed are methods and systems for automatically displaying media items ( | 01-21-2010 |
20090300008 | ADAPTIVE RECOMMENDER TECHNOLOGY - A computer implemented method for incorporating media item data for use in a media item recommender system comprising: accessing a first database comprising a plurality of media item identifiers and associated metadata corresponding to each of a plurality of media items identified by the media item identifiers; generating first correlation data based on a comparison of the metadata corresponding to pairs of the media item identifiers to detect similarities between the media items identified; accessing a second database comprising a plurality of media item identifier sets for identifying sets of media items; generating second correlation data based on an analysis of the media item identifier sets to determine incidence of selected subsets of media item identifiers occurring together in a same media item identifier set; accessing a third database comprising a plurality of consumed media item identifier sets, wherein the consumed media item identifier sets associate one or more media item identifiers in a particular set based on media item consumption data; generating third correlation data based on an analysis of the consumed media item identifier sets to determine incidence of selected subsets of the consumed media item identifiers occurring together in a same consumed media item identifier set; and merging the first, second, and third correlation data to generate media item recommender data. | 12-03-2009 |
20090299945 | PROFILE MODELING FOR SHARING INDIVIDUAL USER PREFERENCES - A computer-implemented method (FIG. | 12-03-2009 |
20090276368 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING PERSONALIZED RECOMMENDATIONS OF PRODUCTS AND SERVICES BASED ON EXPLICIT AND IMPLICIT USER DATA AND FEEDBACK - The present describes systems and methods to support personal financial management by recommending financial products and services responsive to a user's particular financial health or situation based on explicit and implicit user data and feedback. | 11-05-2009 |
20090276351 | SCALEABLE SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISTRIBUTED PREDICTION MARKETS - Systems, methods, and software are disclosed to implement distributed prediction markets over the internet. A central platform executes web application software to host prediction markets (FIG. | 11-05-2009 |
20090222392 | DYMANIC INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT - Disclosed are various embodiments of systems and methods for generating composite mediasets from mediasets, each comprising media items, associated with a plurality of users. In some embodiments, individual and/or group recommendations are provided for creating a group playlist by aggregating user taste data for a plurality of users in a group. In other embodiments, systems and methods are provided which allow for sharing and playing of a group playlist by users in a group, each of which has a media playback device. In still other embodiments, systems and methods are provided for dynamically building a composite playlist that may be updated as users enter and/or leave the group. One example of an interactive entertainment application also is described for use at a venue to entertain live guests with music selections that are dynamically influenced by the guests' individual tastes. | 09-03-2009 |
20090210415 | MEDIASET GENERATION SYSTEM - Disclosed are various embodiments of systems and methods for generating composite mediasets from mediasets, each comprising media items, associated with a plurality of users. In some embodiments, individual and/or group recommendations are provided for creating a group playlist by aggregating user taste data for a plurality of users in a group. In other embodiments, systems and methods are provided which allow for sharing and playing of a group playlist by users in a group, each of which has a media playback device. Each media item, such as a song, is played from one of the individual user devices for the benefit of all users in the vicinity at the time. Music thus can be “shared” without transferring files potentially in violation of copyrights. | 08-20-2009 |