Cloud callout identification of unknown broadcast signatures based on previously recorded broadcast signatures

A method for identification of a broadcast:

• capturing, by one or more recording devices, a plurality of continuous signature representations included as a portion of one or more broadcasts;
• storing, temporarily in separate buffers, each of the plurality of continuous signature representations;
• receiving, by a mobile device, a broadcast from the one or more broadcast sources;
• analyzing the broadcast to determine at least one unknown signature representation;
• delivering, to a cloud computing component, the at least one unknown signature representation;
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• comparing the at least one unknown signature representation with each of the plurality of continuous signature representations;
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• identifying any potential matches between the at least one unknown signature representation and the plurality of continuous signature representations.