DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MONITORING, RATING AND/OR TUNING TO AN AUDIO CONTENT CHANNEL

• US 20120166631A1
• Filed: 12/23/2011
• Published: 06/28/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 07/06/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Jpmorgan Chase Bank NA As The Agent
• Original Assignee: Dov Moran, Itzhak Pomerantz, Mordechai Teicher
• Inventors: Moran, Dov, Pomerantz, Itzhak, Teicher, Mordechai
• Granted Patent: US 9,077,581 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/224
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 20/82 using signals not modulated onto a carrier
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/46 for recognising users' preferences
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/65 for using the result on users' side
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/00 Arrangements for monitoring or testing data switching networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1101 Session protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/764 at the destination reformatting of additional data in video clients H04N21/4355
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]

Abstract

Devices, methods and computer-readable code for simultaneously monitoring the content of at least two streaming audio content channels are disclosed. In some embodiments, the monitored content is analyzed, and one or more features of the monitored content channels are computed, including but not limited to music classification features, content genre features, and spoken content features. These computed features may be used, for example, to compute a rating or score for each monitored audio channel, for example, a rating computed relative to user listening preferences, expressed, for example, in preference rules. In some embodiments, the presently disclosed device includes a channel selector for automatically tuning, for example, to a channel assigned a higher rating at a given time. Alternatively or additionally, content rating scores may be displayed to a user who manually selects and tunes to an audio content channel.

Claims

1-13. -13. (canceled)

14. An audio content processing device that is operative to:

a) monitor the content of at least two streaming audio content channels simultaneously; and

b) compute respective ratings for each said monitored content channel.

15. The device of claim 14 where the device is further operative to:

c) display to a user data indicative of computed ratings.

16. A method for rating audio content comprising:

a) concurrently monitoring a plurality of channels, each said channel providing respective streaming content; and

b) computing respective ratings of said respective streaming content of said monitored content channels.

17-21. -21. (canceled)

22. A computer readable medium comprising program instructions, wherein when executed the program instructions are operable to:

a) concurrently monitor a plurality of channels, each said channel providing respective streaming content; and

b) compute respective ratings of said respective streaming content of said monitored content channels.

23. (canceled)