ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,281, issued on March 3, was assigned to Block Inc. (Oakland, Calif.).
"Search ranking media content items" was invented by Mohammadreza Alagheband (Oppegard, Norway).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A technique for search ranking media content items is described. In accordance with the described techniques a media content item previously absent from a media content library is received. A popularity value of the media content item is estimated based on the artist popularity value and one or more album popularity values for one or more albums of the artist released prior to the media content item and based on an elapsed duration after rec...