Method for internet distribution of music and other streaming content
AssigneeRecent Memory Incorporated
InventorMark Geoffrey Fiedler
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Abstract
A method of promoting and distributing music and similar streaming content on the Internet or a similar network, comprising presentation of streaming content by its originators to potential network broadcasters (webcasters and podcasters), such content provided in a format to securely identify its originators and broadcasters; assembly and broadcasting (webcasting, podcasting) of playlists of such presented content by broadcasters; downloading of selections from broadcast playlists by listeners; and collection and distribution of fees from such downloads, all using software made available for download from the network.
Claims53
A content distribution method comprising the steps of:
- providing conversion means for enabling an originator of streaming content to convert a segment of said content into a secure format incorporating, in a secure manner, information pertaining to said originator in order to provide said segment of content to a broadcaster;
- providing presentation means for enabling said originator to make said segment of content in said secure format available to said broadcaster;
- providing reviewing means for enabling said broadcaster to review one or more segments of said streaming content, in order to determine whether and where to place said segment(s) in a stream of content to be broadcast,
- providing assembly means for enabling said broadcaster to assemble one or more segments of said streaming content into a stream of said content to be streamed to one or more listeners;
- providing streaming means that enables said broadcaster to transmit said stream to one or more listeners;
- and
- providing playing means that enables a listener to play said stream of content.
A method of searching for items such as works of music, wherein said items tagged with terms referring to attributes, such as genre, geographical or historical origin;
- and said terms are represented in a thesaurus indicating any broader, narrower and related terms with respect to any given term.
A broadcast buffering method comprising the steps of:
- providing streaming means that enables a broadcaster to transmit a stream of discrete broadcast segments to one or more listeners, which streaming means maintains a track buffer on the transmitting side which at any given time contains the entire portion of the track currently being transmitted which has already been transmitted;
- and,
- as each said listener connects with said streaming means, sequentially transmitting the contents of said track buffer from the beginning of the broadcast track that it contains, thus ensuring that said listener receives the entire portion of said broadcast track that has already been transmitted.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.