Content-driven speech- or audio-browser

• US 20040260556A1
• Filed: 07/22/2004
• Published: 12/23/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 07/01/1999
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Mark B. Hoffberg, Yevgeniy Eugene Shteyn
• Original Assignee: Mark B. Hoffberg, Yevgeniy Eugene Shteyn
• Inventors: Shteyn, Yevgeniy Eugene, Hoffberg, Mark B.
• Application Number:
  US10/898,074
• Publication Number:
  US 20040260556A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 704/270.1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/683 using metadata automatically derived from the content
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9538 Presentation of query results
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/2805 Home Audio Video Interoperability [HAVI] networks

Abstract

The Internet is searched in order to find resources that provide streamable audio such as live Internet broadcasts. The resources are identified based on their file extension and are categorized according to, e.g., the natural language or music style. The user is enabled to browse the collection based on textual or musical input.

Claims

1-10. -10. (Cancel)

11. A method of facilitating retrieval of desired audio content, comprising:

receiving through the internet streamed audio content information;

analyzing the streamed audio content information; and

storing in a database at least one category describing the streamed audio content.