Patents by Inventor Kristopher C. West

Kristopher C. West 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).

  • Method and system for recommending music
    Patent number: 7696427
    Abstract: A method for recommending music that includes identifying a granularity of a plurality of genres based on a request for music similarity, wherein the request identifies a user, training a genre classifier based on the granularity to obtain a trained genre classifier, calculating a first profile by the trained genre classifier, wherein the first profile that includes, for each of the plurality of genres, the likelihood that a music selection associated with a user is in the genre, calculating a second profile by the trained genre classifier, wherein the second profile that includes, for each of the plurality of genres, the likelihood that an unknown music selection is in the genre, obtaining a first similarity score between the first profile and a second profile, and recommending the unknown music selection to the user based on the first similarity score.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2010
    Assignee: Oracle America, Inc.
    Inventors: Kristopher C. West, Paul B. Lamere
  • Method and system for recommending music
    Publication number: 20080133441
    Abstract: A method for recommending music that includes identifying a granularity of a plurality of genres based on a request for music similarity, wherein the request identifies a user, training a genre classifier based on the granularity to obtain a trained genre classifier, calculating a first profile by the trained genre classifier, wherein the first profile that includes, for each of the plurality of genres, the likelihood that a music selection associated with a user is in the genre, calculating a second profile by the trained genre classifier, wherein the second profile that includes, for each of the plurality of genres, the likelihood that an unknown music selection is in the genre, obtaining a first similarity score between the first profile and a second profile, and recommending the unknown music selection to the user based on the first similarity score.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2007
    Publication date: June 5, 2008
    Applicant: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
    Inventors: Kristopher C. West, Paul B. Lamere