US Patent Issued to Spotify on July 21 for "Diversity aware media content recommendation" (British, Danish, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,396, issued on July 21, was assigned to Spotify AB (Stockholm).

"Diversity aware media content recommendation" was invented by Christian Hansen (Copenhagen, Denmark), Casper Hansen (Copenhagen, Denmark), Brian Christian Peter Brost (New York City, N.Y.), Lucas Maystre (London), Mounia Lalmas-Roelleke (Saffron Walden, Great Britain) and Rishabh Mehrotra (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A reinforcement learning ranker can take into account previously-recommended media content items to produce a ranked list of media content items to recommend next. The ranker finds a policy that gives the probability of sampling a media content it...