US Patent Issued to Apple on Dec. 2 for "Automatically predicting relevant contexts for media items" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,044, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Automatically predicting relevant contexts for media items" was invented by Mark H. Levy (Winchester, Great Britain), Arvind S. Shenoy (San Jose, Calif.), Matthias Mauch (London) and Daniel Cartoon (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present technology pertains to automatically context labeling media items with relevant contexts, and further for algorithmically generating high quality playlists built around a context that are personalized to a profile of an account. This is accomplished by combining data from observed playlists, and data represen...