System for perfoming instrurtions that are dependent upon received media- based messages and associated methods and components

A system for performing instructions determined by received media-based messages, the system comprising:

• an interface for receiving a media-based message from a system user;
• a database configured to associate a first specification of a media-based message with a plurality of stored instructions;
• a recognition engine for identifying a correspondence between a received media-based message and the first specification of a media-based message;
• a database manager for arbitrating which of the plurality of stored instructions associated with the first specification of a media-based message for which a correspondence has been identified should be performed.

A system for performing instructions determined by received media-based messages, the system comprising:

• an interface for receiving a media-based message from a system user;
• a database configured to associate one or more specifications of media-based messages with stored instructions;
• a recognition engine configured to identify a correspondence between a received media-based message and the one or more specifications of media-based messages;
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• a database manager configured to arbitrate which of the stored instructions is performed in response to an identified correspondence between the received media-based message and the one or more specifications of media-based messages.

A method comprising:

• adapting a database to include one or more specifications of media-based messages in association with instructions;
• receiving a media-based message from a system user;
• identifying a correspondence between the received media-based message and the one or more specifications of media-based messages;
• arbitrating which of the associated instructions is performed in response to an identified correspondence between the received media-based message and the one or more specifications of media-based messages.