Patents by Inventor Ari Liusaari
Ari Liusaari has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 11520474Abstract: This disclosure concerns the providing of media, and more particularly to the streaming of media. In accordance with an example embodiment: a portion of a day is determined; a first data message is sent to a computer server system. The first data message comprises instructions to the computer server system to return media content associated with the determined portion of the day. A second data message is received from the computer server system, the second data message comprising media content associated with the determined portion of the day. In response thereto is playback performed of the media content at the user interface of the electronic device in dependence of the determined portion of the day. While performing playback is a visual appearance parameter of the user interface adjusted according the determined portion of the day.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2019Date of Patent: December 6, 2022Assignee: SPOTIFY ABInventors: Karl-Johan Persson, Steven Paul Everington, Fredric Vinnå, Stig Gustav Viktor Söderström, Daniel Galfvensjö, Ari Liusaari, Dejan Sormaz, Felice Mancino, Samwoo E
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Publication number: 20220374196Abstract: Systems, devices, apparatuses, components, methods, and techniques for saving media content to a context for later playback are provided. An example media-playback device for identifying and playing media content for a user traveling in a vehicle includes a context detecting device, a context-driven playback engine, and a media playback engine. Contexts are established by parameters that can be detected by a media-playback device. Contexts are situations that are defined by one or more locations, times, events, activities, people, and devices. Media content is saved to the contexts for later playback. The contexts are detected by the context detecting device, the associated media content is identified by the context-driven playback engine, and the media content is automatically played through the media playback engine, without additional input required by the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 2, 2022Publication date: November 24, 2022Applicant: Spotify ABInventors: Ari Liusaari, Felice Mancino, Chris Linnett
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Patent number: 11449195Abstract: Methods, systems, and related products that provide enhanced broadening and narrowing navigation capabilities through visualized populations of items, such as media content items. Aspects of the disclosure relate to methods of identifying a population of items and groupings of those items for visualizing, via a graphical interface, in a meaningful and easily navigable configuration. Aspects of the present disclosure relate to pre-selection interactions with visualized populations to explore potential narrowing or broadening navigation actions, and selection interactions for performing a narrowing or broadening navigation.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2021Date of Patent: September 20, 2022Assignee: Spotify ABInventors: Ari Liusaari, Philip Hunter McCurry, Peter Sobot
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Patent number: 11405746Abstract: In accordance with an embodiment, described herein is a system and method for providing access to media content associated with events, using a digital media content environment. A media application enables display of a memory event timeline, including a plurality of memory events, to provide an improved presentation of media consumption by a user that resembles a person's memory or recollection of such events. Recent events are generally presented with more specificity, with earlier time periods and events generally presented more broadly. An input action or request for a memory event can be performed to cause a media server to determine a corresponding historical media content for delivery, and to stream or buffer the historical media content related to that memory event, and/or to cause other systems or environments to provide additional content related to the memory event either via the media server, or directly delivered to the media device.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2020Date of Patent: August 2, 2022Assignee: SPOTIFY ABInventors: Ari Liusaari, Felice Mancino, Chris Linnett
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Patent number: 11379177Abstract: Systems, devices, apparatuses, components, methods, and techniques for saving media content to a context for later playback are provided. An example media-playback device for identifying and playing media content for a user traveling in a vehicle includes a context detecting device, a context-driven playback engine, and a media playback engine. Contexts are established by parameters that can be detected by a media-playback device. Contexts are situations that are defined by one or more locations, times, events, activities, people, and devices. Media content is saved to the contexts for later playback. The contexts are detected by the context detecting device, the associated media content is identified by the context-driven playback engine, and the media content is automatically played through the media playback engine, without additional input required by the user.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2020Date of Patent: July 5, 2022Assignee: Spotify ABInventors: Ari Liusaari, Felice Mancino, Chris Linnett
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Patent number: 11343637Abstract: In accordance with an embodiment, described herein is a system and method for use of crowdsourced microphone or other information with a digital media content environment. A user may bring their media device with media application to a venue/performance, for example a theater, or a music concert, or other event which the user desires to attend. A microphone and/or other hardware components of the media device can be used to indicate a presence of the media device. The system can also, or alternatively, utilize an interaction information by the media device or the user thereof with other systems or environments. The media application can be configured so that, upon determining that the media device is present within a particular venue or attending a particular performance, the media server can enable one or more venue-aware media application features, to provide various types of functionalities that improve the user experience.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2020Date of Patent: May 24, 2022Assignee: Spotify ABInventor: Ari Liusaari
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Publication number: 20210326029Abstract: This disclosure concerns the providing of media, and more particularly to the streaming of media. In accordance with an example embodiment: a portion of a day is determined; a first data message is sent to a computer server system. The first data message comprises instructions to the computer server system to return media content associated with the determined portion of the day. A second data message is received from the computer server system, the second data message comprising media content associated with the determined portion of the day. In response thereto is playback performed of the media content at the user interface of the electronic device in dependence of the determined portion of the day. While performing playback is a visual appearance parameter of the user interface adjusted according the determined portion of the day.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 9, 2020Publication date: October 21, 2021Inventors: Karl-Johan Persson, Steven Paul Everington, Fredric Vinnå, Stig Gustav Viktor Söderström, Daniel Galfvensjö, Ari Liusaari, Dejan Sormaz, Felice Mancino, Samwoo E
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Publication number: 20210240330Abstract: Methods, systems, and related products that provide enhanced broadening and narrowing navigation capabilities through visualized populations of items, such as media content items. Aspects of the disclosure relate to methods of identifying a population of items and groupings of those items for visualizing, via a graphical interface, in a meaningful and easily navigable configuration. Aspects of the present disclosure relate to pre-selection interactions with visualized populations to explore potential narrowing or broadening navigation actions, and selection interactions for performing a narrowing or broadening navigation.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 19, 2021Publication date: August 5, 2021Applicant: Spotify ABInventors: Ari LIUSAARI, Philip Hunter McCURRY, Peter SOBOT
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Publication number: 20210185474Abstract: In accordance with an embodiment, described herein is a system and method for use of crowdsourced microphone or other information with a digital media content environment. A user may bring their media device with media application to a venue/performance, for example a theater, or a music concert, or other event which the user desires to attend. A microphone and/or other hardware components of the media device can be used to indicate a presence of the media device. The system can also, or alternatively, utilize an interaction information by the media device or the user thereof with other systems or environments. The media application can be configured so that, upon determining that the media device is present within a particular venue or attending a particular performance, the media server can enable one or more venue-aware media application features, to provide various types of functionalities that improve the user experience.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 24, 2020Publication date: June 17, 2021Inventor: Ari Liusaari
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Patent number: 11003310Abstract: Methods, systems, and related products that provide enhanced broadening and narrowing navigation capabilities through visualized populations of items, such as media content items. Aspects of the disclosure relate to methods of identifying a population of items and groupings of those items for visualizing, via a graphical interface, in a meaningful and easily navigable configuration. Aspects of the present disclosure relate to pre-selection interactions with visualized populations to explore potential narrowing or broadening navigation actions, and selection interactions for performing a narrowing or broadening navigation.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2018Date of Patent: May 11, 2021Assignee: Spotify ABInventors: Ari Liusaari, Philip Hunter McCurry, Peter Sobot
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Publication number: 20210084435Abstract: In accordance with an embodiment, described herein is a system and method for providing access to media content associated with events, using a digital media content environment. A media application enables display of a memory event timeline, including a plurality of memory events, to provide an improved presentation of media consumption by a user that resembles a person's memory or recollection of such events. Recent events are generally presented with more specificity, with earlier time periods and events generally presented more broadly. An input action or request for a memory event can be performed to cause a media server to determine a corresponding historical media content for delivery, and to stream or buffer the historical media content related to that memory event, and/or to cause other systems or environments to provide additional content related to the memory event either via the media server, or directly delivered to the media device.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 27, 2020Publication date: March 18, 2021Inventors: Ari Liusaari, Felice Mancino, Chris Linnett
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Publication number: 20200249908Abstract: Systems, devices, apparatuses, components, methods, and techniques for saving media content to a context for later playback are provided. An example media-playback device for identifying and playing media content for a user traveling in a vehicle includes a context detecting device, a context-driven playback engine, and a media playback engine. Contexts are established by parameters that can be detected by a media-playback device. Contexts are situations that are defined by one or more locations, times, events, activities, people, and devices. Media content is saved to the contexts for later playback. The contexts are detected by the context detecting device, the associated media content is identified by the context-driven playback engine, and the media content is automatically played through the media playback engine, without additional input required by the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 22, 2020Publication date: August 6, 2020Applicant: Spotify ABInventors: Ari Liusaari, Felice Mancino, Chris Linnett
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Patent number: 10728695Abstract: In accordance with an embodiment, described herein is a system and method for use of crowdsourced microphone or other information with a digital media content environment. A user may bring their media device with media application to a venue/performance, for example a theater, or a music concert, or other event which the user desires to attend. A microphone and/or other hardware components of the media device can be used to indicate a presence of the media device. The system can also, or alternatively, utilize an interaction information by the media device or the user thereof with other systems or environments. The media application can be configured so that, upon determining that the media device is present within a particular venue or attending a particular performance, the media server can enable one or more venue-aware media application features, to provide various types of functionalities that improve the user experience.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2017Date of Patent: July 28, 2020Assignee: SPOTIFY ABInventor: Ari Liusaari
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Patent number: 10671338Abstract: Systems, devices, apparatuses, components, methods, and techniques for saving media content to a context for later playback are provided. An example media-playback device for identifying and playing media content for a user traveling in a vehicle includes a context detecting device, a context-driven playback engine, and a media playback engine. Contexts are established by parameters that can be detected by a media-playback device. Contexts are situations that are defined by one or more locations, times, events, activities, people, and devices. Media content is saved to the contexts for later playback. The contexts are detected by the context detecting device, the associated media content is identified by the context-driven playback engine, and the media content is automatically played through the media playback engine, without additional input required by the user.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2017Date of Patent: June 2, 2020Assignee: Spotify ABInventors: Ari Liusaari, Felice Mancino, Chris Linnett
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Publication number: 20200167063Abstract: This disclosure concerns the providing of media, and more particularly to the streaming of media. In accordance with an example embodiment: a portion of a day is determined; a first data message is sent to a computer server system. The first data message comprises instructions to the computer server system to return media content associated with the determined portion of the day. A second data message is received from the computer server system, the second data message comprising media content associated with the determined portion of the day. In response thereto is playback performed of the media content at the user interface of the electronic device in dependence of the determined portion of the day. While performing playback is a visual appearance parameter of the user interface adjusted according the determined portion of the day.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 1, 2019Publication date: May 28, 2020Inventors: Karl-Johan Persson, Steven Paul Everington, Fredric Vinnå, Stig Gustav Viktor Söderström, Daniel Galfvensjö, Ari Liusaari, Dejan Sormaz, Felice Mancino, Samwoo E
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Patent number: 10659910Abstract: In accordance with an embodiment, described herein is a system and method for providing access to media content associated with events, using a digital media content environment. A media application enables display of a memory event timeline, including a plurality of memory events, to provide an improved presentation of media consumption by a user that resembles a person's memory or recollection of such events. Recent events are generally presented with more specificity, with earlier time periods and events generally presented more broadly. An input action or request for a memory event can be performed to cause a media server to determine a corresponding historical media content for delivery, and to stream or buffer the historical media content related to that memory event, and/or to cause other systems or environments to provide additional content related to the memory event either via the media server, or directly delivered to the media device.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2017Date of Patent: May 19, 2020Assignee: SPOTIFY ABInventors: Ari Liusaari, Felice Mancino, Chris Linnett
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Publication number: 20200037019Abstract: Methods, systems, and related products that provide enhanced broadening and narrowing navigation capabilities through visualized populations of items, such as media content items. Aspects of the disclosure relate to methods of identifying a population of items and groupings of those items for visualizing, via a graphical interface, in a meaningful and easily navigable configuration. Aspects of the present disclosure relate to pre-selection interactions with visualized populations to explore potential narrowing or broadening navigation actions, and selection interactions for performing a narrowing or broadening navigation.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 25, 2018Publication date: January 30, 2020Inventors: Ari LIUSAARI, Philip Hunter McCURRY, Peter SOBOT
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Patent number: 10430050Abstract: An apparatus comprising: at least one processor; and at least one memory including computer program code, the at least one memory and the computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus to perform at least the following: based on a received user selection of one or more of a plurality of displayed user selectable markers (1505a-f), the user selectable markers each corresponding to one or more of the plurality of time adjacent images in a sequence of images, causing an editing function associated with the one or more images that correspond to the selected marker.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2014Date of Patent: October 1, 2019Assignee: Nokia Technologies OyInventors: Dan Spjuth, Shahil Soni, David Fredh, Esa Kankaanpää, Johan Windmark, Ari Liusaari, Martin Karlsson
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Patent number: 10346011Abstract: An apparatus comprising: at least one processor; and at least one memory including computer program code, the at least one memory and the computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus to perform at least the following: in response to user input selecting a selectable marker (1720, 1725, 1730, 1820, 1825, 1830, 1940, 2020), the selectable marker marking the position of at least one identified feature (1705, 1710, 1715, 1810, 1815, 1910, 1915, 2005) in an image which is hideable from view using a region of the image surrounding the identified feature, hide or show the identified feature.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2014Date of Patent: July 9, 2019Assignee: Nokia Technologies OyInventors: Dan Spjuth, Shahil Soni, David Fredh, Esa Kankaanpää, Johan Windmark, Ari Liusaari, Martin Karlsson
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Patent number: 10338794Abstract: This disclosure concerns the providing of media, and more particularly to the streaming of media. In accordance with an example embodiment: a portion of a day is determined; a first data message is sent to a computer server system. The first data message comprises instructions to the computer server system to return media content associated with the determined portion of the day. A second data message is received from the computer server system, the second data message comprising media content associated with the determined portion of the day. In response thereto is playback performed of the media content at the user interface of the electronic device in dependence of the determined portion of the day. While performing playback is a visual appearance parameter of the user interface adjusted according the determined portion of the day.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2015Date of Patent: July 2, 2019Assignee: SPOTIFY ABInventors: Karl-Johan Persson, Steven Paul Everington, Fredric Vinnå, Stig Gustav Viktor Söderström, Daniel Galfvensjö, Ari Liusaari, Dejan Sormaz, Felice Mancino, Samwoo E