US Patent Issued to Spotify on June 10 for "Methods and systems for adapting playlists" (American, Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,899, issued on June 10, was assigned to Spotify AB (Stockholm).

"Methods and systems for adapting playlists" was invented by Miles Lennon (New York), Rafael Mumme (New York), Jason Gavris (Wellesley, Mass.), Minwei Gu (Malden, Mass.) and Mateo Rando (Stockholm).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A server receives a request to play a selected playlist from a first electronic device associated with a host listener. The playlist includes audio items having a common attribute. The server also receives an identity of a guest listener having a second electronic device and retrieves an indication of taste of the guest listener based on the recei...