US Patent Issued to Gracenote on March 24 for "Station library creation for a media service" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,692, issued on March 24, was assigned to Gracenote Inc. (New York).

"Station library creation for a media service" was invented by Peter C. DiMaria (Berkeley, Calif.) and Andrew Silverman (Berkeley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A machine may form all or part of a network-based system configured to provide media service to one or more user devices. The machine may be configured to define a station library within a larger collection of media files. In particular, the machine may access metadata that describes a seed that forms the basis on which the station library is to be defined. The machine may determine a genre compositi...