Method and system for providing listener-requested music over a network

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 7720686
APP PUB NO 20040019497A1
SERIAL NO

10416478

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A system and method for providing personalized music playback over a network. Via a browser, a user computer may be connected to a server and the user may tune to one of a plurality of radio stations. The user may receive a playlist of songs in the musical style of the radio station selected by the user. The playlist includes a plurality of unique identifiers for each song that indicate a location on the Internet from which the song may be streamingly transmitted to a media player for playback on the user's computer. Additionally, each user may submit requests for songs which that user desires to be included on a future playlist. For each radio station, requests from a plurality of users are aggregated over a predetermined time period to determine which songs are most requested. A user request for a song may be time-delayed or satisfied in real-time.

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PANDORA MEDIA LLC2100 FRANKLIN STREET SUITE 700 OAKLAND CA 94612

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Reed, Erik Dublin, US 7 607
Volk, Andrew R San Francisco, US 9 725

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