US 11,886,486 B2
Apparatus, systems and methods for providing segues to contextualize media content
Sarah Mennicken, San Francisco, CA (US); Morteza Behrooz, Santa Cruz, CA (US); Henriette Cramer, San Francisco, CA (US); and Rohit Kumar, Stockholm (SE)
Assigned to Spotify AB, Stockholm (SE)
Filed by Spotify AB, Stockholm (SE)
Filed on Aug. 27, 2019, as Appl. No. 16/552,287.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/724,831, filed on Aug. 30, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2020/0159761 A1, May 21, 2020
Int. Cl. G06F 16/43 (2019.01); G06F 16/22 (2019.01); G06F 16/41 (2019.01); G06F 16/24 (2019.01); G06F 16/48 (2019.01); G06F 16/438 (2019.01); G06F 40/56 (2020.01)
CPC G06F 16/4387 (2019.01) [G06F 16/22 (2019.01); G06F 16/24 (2019.01); G06F 16/41 (2019.01); G06F 16/43 (2019.01); G06F 16/48 (2019.01); G06F 40/56 (2020.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of augmenting a group of media content items, comprising:
forming a graph including a plurality of nodes and a plurality of edges, where each node represents a segue option at a position in the graph and each edge represents a connection between a first node in the graph at a first position and a second node in the graph at a second position, wherein each node of a first plurality of the nodes corresponds to a different contextualizing segue after a playback, by a playback device, of a first media content item in a playlist and before a playback, by the playback device, of a second media content item in the playlist, wherein each node of a second plurality of the nodes corresponds to a different contextualizing segue after a playback, by the playback device, of the second media content item in the playlist, the first media content item and the second media content item being different from each other; and
selecting one of the first plurality of nodes and one of the second plurality of nodes to generate a path in the graph, the selecting being based on the playlist,
wherein the path is configured to cause the playback device to output, consecutively, the first media content item, the contextualizing segue corresponding to the selected one of the first plurality of nodes, the second media content item, and the contextualizing segue corresponding to the selected one of the second plurality of nodes; and
wherein the output of the contextualizing segue corresponding to the selected one of the first plurality of nodes includes a playback, by the playback device, of contextual information that describes information related to the first media content item and the second media content item.