Patents by Inventor Eric Danforth Strahm

Eric Danforth Strahm 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).

  • Media item clustering based on similarity data
    Patent number: 8620919
    Abstract: Methods and arrangements for facilitating generation of media mixes for a program participant based at least in part on media library inventory information provided by a number of program participants. Those individuals that decide to be program participants are interested in organizing, maintaining and playing their music, based at least in part, on data derived from a population of other participants in the program. A program participant must send, and the system, receive, data representative of that program participant's media inventory. The system or program determines a relative similarity of each item from the collection of program participants as compared to each other item and from the similarity information clusters of similar items are identified. The clusters can be used to identify clusters of similar items in an individual program participant's media library and therefrom mixes of similar media items can be created.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Patrick Gates, Jeremy Werner, Andrew H. Vyrros, John Andrew McCulloh, Richard Frederick Wagner, Eric Danforth Strahm
  • MEDIA ITEM CLUSTERING BASED ON SIMILARITY DATA
    Publication number: 20120233167
    Abstract: Methods and arrangements for facilitating generation of media mixes for a program participant based at least in part on media library inventory information provided by a number of program participants. Those individuals that decide to be program participants are interested in organizing, maintaining and playing their music, based at least in part, on data derived from a population of other participants in the program. A program participant must send, and the system, receive, data representative of that program participant's media inventory. The system or program determines a relative similarity of each item from the collection of program participants as compared to each other item and from the similarity information clusters of similar items are identified. The clusters can be used to identify clusters of similar items in an individual program participant's media library and therefrom mixes of similar media items can be created.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2012
    Publication date: September 13, 2012
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Patrick Gates, Jeremy Werner, Andrew H. Vyrros, John Andrew McCulloh, Richard Frederick Wagner, Eric Danforth Strahm