US Patent Issued to Spotify on May 26 for "Systems and methods for discovery of media items through descriptors" (American, Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,363, issued on May 26, was assigned to Spotify AB (Stockholm).

"Systems and methods for discovery of media items through descriptors" was invented by Kurt Jacobson (Stoneham, Mass.), Stanislav Chekalin (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Philip Glenny Edmonds (Arlington, Mass.), Matthew Budelman (Providence, R.I.), Paul Lamere (Bath, Maine) and Nicola Felaco (Naples, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer system associated with a media-providing service obtains a set of text descriptors from a plurality of media items in a pool of media items personalized for a first user. The system selects, from the set of text descriptors, a first text desc...