Systems and methods to provide internet search/play media services

• US 20060173825A1
• Filed: 07/15/2005
• Published: 08/03/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 07/16/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: BLU Ventures LLC and Iomedia Partners LLC
• Original Assignee: BLU Ventures LLC and Iomedia Partners LLC
• Inventors: Hess, Carol S., Roe, Michael R.
• Application Number:
  US11/183,242
• Publication Number:
  US 20060173825A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/44 Browsing; Visualisation therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/953 Querying, e.g. by the use of web search engines
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/26 Speech to text systems G10L15/08 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72406 by software upgrading or downloading
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72442 for playing music files
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2201/39 using speech synthesis speech synthesis per se G10L13/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2201/40 using speech recognition speech recognition per se G10L15/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2207/18 wireless networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/74 with voice recognition means voice activated dialling H04M1/271; voice recognition algorithms G10L15/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/4938 comprising a voice browser which renders and interprets, e.g. VoiceXML

Abstract

Systems and methods to provide an Internet media service are disclosed. A streaming media distribution system, comprising storage capability, streaming encoding and parsing capability, and information generation capability, is used to populate a search player view with links, key words, and other information related to media currently being streamed from the streaming media distribution system. Media identifier data is parsed from digital information associated with the present digital media stream and a pre-search of at least one of a local database, external databases, and Internet web sites are performed in response to the media identifier data. The results of the pre-search are used to populate the search player view which is provided to users, via the Internet, by the streaming media distribution system.

Claims

1. A method to provide an Internet media service, said method comprising:

parsing media identifier data from digital information associated with a present digital media stream;

performing a pre-search in response to said parsed media identifier data; and

populating a search player view with at least one of links, keywords, and other information found as a result of said pre-search.

2. The method of claim 1 further comprising transmitting said populated search player view and said present digital media stream to at least one user'"'"'s personal computer via the Internet.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein said digital information comprises at least one of a digital audio file and a digital video file.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein said media identifier data comprises at least one of ID3 tag data and ID4 tag data.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein said present digital media stream comprises at least one of a digital audio stream and a digital video stream.

6. The method of claim 1 wherein said search player view comprises a graphical user interface that includes an embedded media player object and provides search capability.

7. The method of claim 1 wherein performing said pre-search and populating said search player view are accomplished automatically in response to said present media stream without user intervention.

8. The method of claim 1 wherein said pre-search is performed by searching at least one of a local relational database, external databases, and the Internet.

9. The method of claim 1 wherein said method steps are performed by a streaming media distribution system.

10. The method of claim 9 wherein said streaming media distribution system comprises a set of software applications hosted on a server, said server being connected to the Internet.

11. A method to provide an Internet media service, said method comprising:

reading digital information associated with a present digital media stream;

storing said read digital information;

parsing media identifier data from said stored digital information;

performing a pre-search query in response to said parsed media identifier data;

capturing results of said pre-search query; and

populating a search player view with at least one of links, keywords, and information associated with said captured results.

12. The method of claim 11 further comprising transmitting said populated search player view and said present digital media stream to at least one user'"'"'s personal computer via the Internet.

13. The method of claim 11 wherein said digital information comprises at least one of a digital audio file and a digital video file.

14. The method of claim 11 wherein said media identifier data comprises at least one of ID3 tag data and ID4 tag data.

15. The method of claim 11 wherein said present digital media stream comprises at least one of a digital audio stream and a digital video stream.

16. The method of claim 11 wherein said search player view comprises a graphical user interface that includes an embedded media player object and provides search capability.

17. The method of claim 11 wherein performing said pre-search query and populating said search player view are accomplished automatically in response to said present media stream without user intervention.

18. The method of claim 11 wherein said pre-search query is performed by searching at least one of a local relational database, external databases, and the Internet.

19. The method of claim 11 wherein said method steps are performed by a streaming media distribution system.

20. The method of claim 19 wherein said streaming media distribution system comprises a set of software applications hosted on a server, said server being connected to the Internet.

21. A streaming media distribution system, said system comprising:

a storage device storing a plurality of digital media files;

a streaming encoder and parser connected to an output of said storage device to receive said digital media files from said storage device, to generate a present digital media stream from at least one of said digital media files, and to parse media identifier data from said at least one of said digital media files; and

an information generation subsystem connected to said streaming encoder and parser to receive said parsed media identifier data.

22. The system of claim 21 further comprising a local relational database connected to said information generation subsystem such that said information generation subsystem can search said local relational database using at least said media identifier data.

23. The system of claim 21 wherein said media identifier data comprises at least one of ID3 tag data and ID4 tag data.

24. The system of claim 21 wherein said streaming encoder and parser and said information generation subsystem comprise software applications hosted on a server, said server being connected to the Internet.

25. The system of claim 21 wherein said storage device comprises at least one of an electronic storage medium and a magnetic storage medium.

26. The system of claim 21 wherein said information generation subsystem uses said media identifier data to automatically perform a pre-search of at least one of a local relational database, external databases, and the Internet in response to said present digital media stream generated by said streaming encoder and parser.

27. The system of claim 21 wherein said information generation subsystem comprises a search engine.

28. The system of claim 21 wherein said information generation subsystem comprises an XML search interface.

29. The system of claim 26 wherein said information generation subsystem generates a search player view and populates said search player view with at least one of links, keywords, and other information found as a result of said pre-search.