SYSTEM FOR AND METHOD FOR ORGANIZING AND DISTRIBUTING AUDIO OR AUDIOVISUAL INFORMATION

• US 20080126219A1
• Filed: 11/08/2007
• Published: 05/29/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 11/08/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: MA Capital LLLP
• Original Assignee: MA Capital LLLP
• Inventors: Hengel, Charles M.
• Application Number:
  US11/937,072
• Publication Number:
  US 20080126219A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/26
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/00 Administration; Management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/00 Commerce
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0617 Representative agent
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0635 Processing of requisition or of purchase orders

Abstract

This document describes, among other things, according to one example embodiment, there is provided methods and systems for managing and organizing audio or audiovisual content, and for producing audio or audiovisual compilations from the content. According to one example embodiment, there is provided a content server system that receives content and related information may be uploaded or entered and managed from client computers. The server system may comprise one or more servers and storage devices, and software, wherein the servers may be proximate to one another or located remotely from one another. Content may be audio or audiovisual content. According to one example embodiment, the content is audio content generated by a radio station, wherein the content may have been broadcast by the radio station. Information relating to the content is uploaded or entered from a client computer, for example a client computer at a radio station. The content is then advertised by the radio station and sold through an operation run by a party other than the radio station.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

an administrative data structure to hold account management information associated with accounts provisioned to a respective plurality of radio station organizations, wherein the account management information includes access rights and privileges for one or more radio station organization users associated with the radio station organizations;

at least one client interface adapted to allow a user associated with an operating entity to enter and modify account management information to provision accounts for the plurality of radio station organizations;

an audio product data structure to hold information associated with a plurality of audio products, wherein at least one audio product includes at least one compilation of audio files including audio content and information associated with the audio files, wherein each compilation is associated with at least one of the accounts;

at least one client interface adapted to allow a radio station organization user to load the audio tracks and related information into the audio product data structure;

a phone number data structure to hold phone numbers associated with a plurality of radio station organizations;

at least computer program to recognize one of the phone numbers stored in the phone number data structure and to identify a radio station organization associated with the phone number;

a product order data structure to hold product order information specifying orders for audio products specified in the audio product data structure, wherein the product order information stored in the data structure includes an identification of one of the audio products and a name and address for a customer ordering one of the audio products;

at least one client interface adapted to display to an order processing center operator a radio station organization associated with a phone number called by the customer seeking to order an audio product, and to allow an order processing center operator to enter order information into the product order data structure;

at least one client interface adapted to enable fulfillment personnel responsible for fulfilling orders for the audio products to manufacture audio products and to generate shipping labels for the audio products; and

wherein the order center operators and fulfillment personnel are enabled to take and fulfill orders for audio products created by a plurality of different radio station organizations.

2. A system comprising:

an administrative data structure to hold account management information associated with accounts provisioned to a respective plurality of radio station organizations, wherein the account management information includes access rights and privileges for one or more radio station organization users associated with the radio station organizations;

at least one client interface adapted to allow a user associated with an operating entity to enter and modify account management information to provision accounts for the plurality of radio station organizations;

an audio product data structure to hold information associated with a plurality of audio products, wherein at least one audio product includes at least one compilation of audio files including audio content and information associated with the audio files, wherein each compilation is associated with at least one of the accounts;

at least one client interface adapted to allow a radio station organization user to load the audio tracks and related information into the audio product data structure;

an origination information data structure to hold origination information associated with a web location of each of a plurality of radio station organizations usable to identify the network origin of a user arriving at a web server;

at least computer program to recognize origination information with reference to the origination information stored in the origination information database and to identify a radio station organization associated with the origination information;

an product order data structure to hold product order information specifying orders for audio products specified in the audio product data structure, wherein the product order information stored in the data structure includes an identification of one of the audio products and a name and address for a customer ordering one of the audio products;

at least one client interface adapted to display to an order processing center operator a radio station organization associated with a web location visited by the customer seeking to order an audio product, and to allow an order processing center operator to enter order information into the product order data structure;

at least one client interface adapted to enable fulfillment personnel responsible for fulfilling orders for the audio products to manufacture audio products and to generate shipping labels for the audio products; and

wherein the order center operators and fulfillment personnel are enabled to take and fulfill orders for audio products created by a plurality of different radio station organizations.

3. A system comprising:

a computing system including one or more computing platforms, one or more software programs operative on the one or more computing platforms, and one or more data storage devices accessible by the computing platforms;

one or more data structures stored on the data storage devices, wherein the one or more data structures are adapted to store and retrieve files including audio content and store and retrieve information associated with the audio content including track information and compilation information, wherein each compilation has associated therewith one or more tracks of audio content stored in the one or more data structures, and wherein each track includes a label for the track and wherein the compilation has a name, the one or more data structures further adapted to store a product name and to associate one or more compilations with the product name, the one or more data structures further adapted to store an identification for each of a plurality of radio station organizations, and at least one association between one or more of the products and an account of at least one of the radio station organizations, the one or more data structures further including at least one radio station user name and password associated with at least one of the radio station organizations, the one or more data structures further adapted to store one or more operating entity user names and passwords for an operating entity that is independent of the radio station organization;

the one or more software programs adapted to allow a user with one of the operating entity user names and passwords to access the data structure from a client computer over a wide-area network to provision user names and passwords for the radio station organizations and provision the accounts for the radio station organizations;

the one or more software programs adapted to allow a user with a radio station organization user name and password to access the one or more data structures from a client computer over a wide-area network to add audio content to the data structure and to organize the audio content into compilations and associate compilations with a product identified in the data structure as associated with the radio station organization associated with the user;

the one or more software programs adapted to provide a user interface for order processing center operators to allow the order processing center operators to access information in the data structure to process orders for products specified in the data structure, wherein the one or more data structures are further adapted to store order information including the name of a person or organization placing an order and shipping information associated therewith;

one or more devices used to manufacture an audio product;

the one or more software programs adapted to provide fulfillment personnel a user interface to access information in the data structure to download product information to the one or more devices used to manufacture audio products to fulfill one of the orders for an audio product;

one or more printing devices used to manufacture shipping labels; and

the one or more software programs adapted to provide shipping information taken from the one or more data structures to the one or more printing devices.

4. A system comprising:

a computing system including one or more computing platforms, one or more software programs operative on the one or more computing platforms, and one or more data storage devices accessible by the computing platforms;

one or more data structures stored on the data storage devices, wherein the one or more data structures are adapted to store and retrieve files including audio content and store and retrieve information associated with the audio content including track information and compilation information, wherein each compilation has associated therewith one or more tracks of audio content stored in the one or more data structures, and wherein each track includes a label for the track and wherein the compilation has a name, the one or more data structures further adapted to store a product name and to associate one or more compilations with the product name, the one or more data structures further adapted to store an identification for each of a plurality of radio station organizations, and at least one association between one or more of the products and an account of at least one of the radio station organizations, the one or more data structures further including at least one radio station user name and password associated with at least one of the radio station organizations, the one or more data structures further adapted to store one or more operating entity user names and passwords for an operating entity that is independent of the radio station organization;

the one or more software programs adapted to allow a user with one of the operating entity user names and passwords to access the data structure from a client computer over a wide-area network to provision user names and passwords for the radio station organizations and provision the accounts for the radio station organizations;

the one or more software programs adapted to allow a user with a radio station organization user name and password to access the one or more data structures from a client computer over a wide-area network to add audio content to the data structure and to organize the audio content into compilations and associate compilations with a product identified in the data structure as associated with the radio station organization associated with the user;

the one or more software programs adapted to provide access to information in the data structure to one or more users responsible for processing orders for products specified in the data structure; and

the one or more software programs adapted to provide access to information in the data structure to one or more users responsible for manufacturing an audio product to fulfill one of the orders for an audio product.

5. A method comprising:

an operating entity user using an administrative data structure to enter account management information associated with accounts provisioned to a respective plurality of radio station organizations, wherein the account management information includes access rights and privileges for one or more radio station organization users associated with the radio station organizations, wherein the operating entity user provisions accounts for each of the plurality of radio station organizations;

a radio station organization user loading audio tracks and related information into an audio product data structure holding information associated with a plurality of audio products, wherein at least one audio product includes at least one compilation of audio files including audio content and information associated with the audio files, wherein each compilation is associated with at least one of the accounts;

a computer program recognizing an ordination identifier stored in an origination identifier data structure and identifying a radio station organization associated with the origination identifier;

presenting to an order processing center operator the name of a radio station organization associated with the origination identifier associated with the customer seeking to order an audio product, and the order processing center operator entering order information into a product order data structure holding product order information specifying orders for audio products specified in the audio product data structure, wherein the product order information stored in the data structure includes an identification of one of the audio products and a name and address for a customer ordering one of the audio products;

providing to a fulfillment operation responsible for fulfilling orders for the audio products information required to manufacture audio products and to generate shipping labels for the audio products; and

wherein the order center operators and fulfillment operation are enabled to take and fulfill orders for audio products created by a plurality of different radio station organizations.