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Volk et al. (54)
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(45) Date of Patent:
METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING
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(75) Inventors: Andrew R. Volk, San Francisco, CA
12/1999
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(US); Erik Reed, Dublin, CA (US) FOREIGN PATENT DOCUMENTS
(73) Assignee: Yahoo! Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US) ( * ) Notice:
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Subject to any disclaimer, the term of this patent is extended or adjusted under 35
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PCT Filed:
Dec. 4, 2002
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(Continued) Primary Examinerilohn W Hayes Assistant ExamineriTonya Joseph (74)Att0rney, Agent, or Firmilames J. DeCarlo; Greenberg Traurig, LLP
May 91 2003
PCT Pub. No.: WO03/048948
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ABSTRACT
PCT Pub. Date: Jun. 12, 2003
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A system and method for providing personalized music play back over a netWork. Via a broWser, a user computer may be connected to a server and the user may tune to one of a
plurality of radio stations. The user may receive a playlist of
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songs in the musical style of the radio station selected by the
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user. The playlist includes a plurality of unique identi?ers for
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each song that indicate a location on the Internet from Which the song may be streamingly transmitted to a media player for playback on the user’ s computer. Additionally, each user may submit requests for songs Which that user desires to be
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included on a future playlist. For each radio station, requests from a plurality of users are aggregated over a predetermined
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time period to determine Which songs are most requested. A
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user request for a song may be time-delayed or satis?ed in
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real-time
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