Patent 10222939 was granted and assigned to Google on March, 2019 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A method for managing collaborative playlists is disclosed. The method includes providing, by a processing device, indication regarding one or more available collaborative guidance controls, receiving, by the processing device, first user specification that one or more of the collaborative guidance controls be set for a playlist, receiving, at the processing device, second user suggestion for addition to the playlist of one or more content items, and checking, at the processing device, the one or more content items for compliance with the first-user-specified collaborative guidance controls.