US 8,948,897 B2 · Generating audio representative of an entity

Abstract

Within a network-based system, an entity may be identified by an identifier of the entity. An audio generation machine may be configured to generate an audio piece that represents the entity, and the audio generation machine may generate the audio piece based on the identifier of the entity. Hence, the audio piece generated by the audio generation machine may be representative of the entity, and playback of the audio piece may identify the entity, reference the entity, highlight the entity, suggest the entity, or otherwise call the entity to mind (e.g., for one or more listeners of the audio piece). Thus, the generated audio piece may function as an audio-based avatar of the entity (e.g., a representative of the entity within a virtual world). Furthermore, the audio piece may be shared (e.g., in a social networking context or a social shopping context).

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Dependent claims

A system comprising:

an access module configured to access an identifier that uniquely identifies an entity among multiple entities that are represented within a database;
a processor configured by a generation module to generate an audio piece representative of the entity based on the identifier that uniquely identifies the entity among the multiple entities represented within the database, generation of the audio piece including parsing the identifier into at least a first digit and composing a melody based on the first digit parsed from the identifier;
and
a presentation module configured to present the audio piece that is representative of the entity and is generated based on the identifier that uniquely identifies the entity among the multiple entities represented within the database.

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Generating audio representative of an entity

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Generating audio representative of an entity

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Abstract

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