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Playlist-only media items

US10318114B2 · kind B2 · utility

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18Claims

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Assignee

Apple Inc. · US

Inventors

Thomas Alsina · Mountain View, US
Edward T. Schmidt · Cupertino, US
Taylor G. Carrigan · San Francisco, US
Christopher J. Sanders · San Jose, US
Cody D. Jorgensen · San Jose, US
Arvind S. Shenoy · Cupertino, US
Amandeep Jawa · San Francisco, US
George D. Bottas · Cupertino, US
Matthew J. Cielak · Bellevue, US
Paul C. Irvine · Mill Valley, US

Key dates

Filing date	Sep 20, 2016
Grant date	Jun 11, 2019
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Sep 20, 2036

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG06F16/4387
WIPO fieldComputer technology
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

In some implementations, a computing device can be configured to manage playlist-only media items for a user's media library. For example, when a user adds a media item to a playlist, the user can be presented with an option to add the media item to the playlist as a playlist-only media item. When the user selects to add the media item to the playlist as a playlist-only media item, the computing device can update media metadata associated with the user's media library with data indicating that the media item is a playlist-only media item. When the computing device performs operations (e.g., displaying, searching, etc.) on the user's media library, the computing device can exclude the playlist-only media items from the operations. The computing device can change the playlist-only settings for a media item to add and/or remove a media item from the user's media library.

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