Apparatus, System, and Method for Digital Audio Services
AssigneeClip Interactive, LLC
InventorsJeffrey Thramann, Michael Perkins, Jeff Osborn, Patrick French
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Abstract
A system and method for providing digital audio services is described. One embodiment is a method for proving digital audio services, comprising receiving, using a communications interface, an audio stream from a content provider; determining a timestamp for a first audio stream segment; determining a timestamp for a second audio stream segment; updating playlist with a representation of the audio stream; receiving query for content information; and sending offer information, in response to receiving the query for content information.
Claims21
1-20. (canceled)
A method comprising:
- receiving, at a server, ambient radio station audio transmitted by a mobile device that received the ambient radio audio at a microphone of the mobile device;
- sampling, by the server, audio from a plurality of radio stations;
- and
- identifying, by the server, a radio station ID associated with the ambient radio station audio using a comparison of the ambient radio station audio to said audio from the plurality of radio stations.
A system comprising:
- a microphone of a mobile device configured to receive ambient radio station audio;
- a server configured to sample audio from a plurality of radio stations;
- and
- a wireless transceiver of the mobile device configured to transmit the ambient radio station audio to the server;
- wherein the server is further configured to identify a radio station ID associated with the ambient radio station audio using a comparison of the ambient radio station audio to said audio from the plurality of radio stations.
A method of identifying radio stations playing in proximity to user mobile devices comprising:
- sampling a plurality of radio station audio from a plurality of known radio stations, thereby generating sample audio segments;
- tagging each sample audio segment with a broadcast region;
- receiving, from a first user device, a GPS location and recorded audio of a contemporaneous radio station broadcast, the contemporaneous radio station broadcast from a first radio station;
- and
- identifying the first radio station based on a comparison of the recorded audio to sample audio segments from the plurality of known radio stations tagged with a broadcast region consistent with the GPS location.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.