CLOUD BASED AUDIO RECORDING SYSTEM

• US 20140289626A1
• Filed: 03/17/2014
• Published: 09/25/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 03/15/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Cloudeck, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Cloudeck, Inc.
• Inventors: Wu, Kenneth W. K., Chan, Luen Pan
• Application Number:
  US14/215,709
• Publication Number:
  US 20140289626A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/716
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/60 of audio data
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/6218 to a system of files or objects, e.g. local or distributed file system or database
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/031 Electronic editing of digitised analogue information signals, e.g. audio or video signals
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/034 on discs G11B27/036, G11B27/038 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/34 Indicating arrangements indicating means incorporated in magazine or cassette G11B23/046 and G11B23/0875; indicating measured values in general G01D
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/101 Access control lists [ACL]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/06 specially adapted for file transfer, e.g. file transfer protocol [FTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4788 communicating with other users, e.g. chatting arrangements for providing for computer conferences, e.g. chat rooms, to substation in data switching networks H04L12/1813; distributed application using peer-to-peer [P2P] networks H04L67/104
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8106 involving special audio data, e.g. different tracks for different languages
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/21 for social networking applications

Abstract

The present disclosure relates to a cloud based system for compiling a series of brief recordings made by a plurality of different users sequentially to form an aggregated audio presentation. The system stores a plurality of user audio files which corresponding to a single audio presentation such as a song, conversation or presentation. Each brief recording is assigned a unique identifier indicating the corresponding presentation and the user that recorded the brief recording before the brief recording is uploaded to a server for storage. The plurality of brief recordings can be aggregated at the server into a single audio presentation that can be streamed back to users. Alternatively, the plurality of brief recordings can remain separate, wherein the plurality of brief recordings can be transmitted piecemeal to users in the order indicated by the unique identifiers to simulate an aggregated audio presentation.

Claims

1. A system for aggregating brief audio recordings into a single audio project, the system comprising:

a mobile device comprising a set of instructions executable by mobile device hardware and stored in a mobile device non-transitory storage medium that, when executed, cause the mobile device hardware to implement;

a user interface module adapted to provide a graphical display for a mobile device user;

a recording module accessible through the user interface module and configured to record a base audio file to the mobile device non-transitory storage medium;

an audio file processing module configured to assign an indicator to the base audio file; and

a networking module configured to —

transmit the base audio file and the indicator to a system database,

interface to at least one social network database, the social network database comprising hierarchical relational data for at least the mobile device user, wherein the mobile device user can assign permissions via the user interface for the base audio file to one or more secondary users according to at least the hierarchical relational data.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the mobile device further comprises a set of instructions executable by the device hardware and stored in the device non-transitory storage medium that, when executed, cause the device hardware to implement:

a timing module configured to limit a length of the base audio file.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the timing module is accessible through the user interface and further comprises a timer indicator having a changing visual element indicating the difference between a start point and a completion point.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the mobile device further comprises a set of instructions executable by the device hardware and stored in the device non-transitory storage medium that, when executed, cause the device hardware to implement:

a player module accessible through the user interface and configured to replay the recorded base audio file through the mobile device.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the networking module is further configured to interface to the system database to allow review of one or more stem audio files by the mobile device user and allow approval of the one or more stem audio files by the mobile device user.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the networking module is further configured to publish the audio project.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the user interface module is further configured to display a list of one or more stem audio files related to the base audio file

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the hierarchical relational data comprises a group of first-degree friends of the mobile device user.

9. The system of claim 1, further comprising a second mobile device comprising a set of instructions executable by second device hardware and stored in a second device non-transitory storage medium that, when executed, cause the second device hardware to implement:

a second user interface module adapted to provide a graphical display for a second mobile device user;

a second recording module accessible through the second user interface module and configured to record a stem audio file to the second mobile device non-transitory storage medium;

a second audio file processing module configured to assign a second indicator to the stem audio file, the second indicator indicating at least the relationship of the stem audio file to the base audio file; and

a second networking module configured to transmit the stem audio file and the second indicator to the system database.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein the second mobile device further comprises a set of instructions executable by the second device hardware and stored in the second device non-transitory storage medium that, when executed, cause the second device hardware to implement:

a timing module configured to limit a length of the base audio file, wherein the timing module is accessible through the second user interface and further comprises a timer indicator having a changing visual element indicating the difference between a start point and a completion point, at least one of the start point or completion point defined by the second indicator.

11. The system of claim 9, wherein the networking module is further configured to interface to the system database to allow a search of base audio files by the second mobile device user.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein the search of base audio files is limited by the system database according to relational contact data assigned by the mobile device user.

13. A method for aggregating brief audio recordings into a single audio project, the method being executable by a computer system that includes computer hardware, the method comprising:

providing an initiating client to a first mobile device;

receiving, from the initiating client, a base audio file and a primary indicator associated with the base audio file;

receiving, from the initiating client, a permission assignment for the base audio file for one or more secondary clients according to at least hierarchical relational data;

storing the base audio file and the primary indicator in a storage module;

providing a secondary client to a second mobile device;

receiving, from the secondary client, a search query related to the base audio file;

searching the storage module according to the search query related to the base audio file;

providing, to the secondary client, the base audio file;

receiving, from the secondary client, a stem audio file and a secondary indicator, wherein the secondary indicator indicates at least the relationship of the stem audio file to the base audio file; and

aggregating the stem audio file with the base audio file according to the primary indicator and the secondary indicator.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein providing the initiating client to the first mobile device comprises installing, on the first mobile device, a set of instructions executable by mobile device hardware and stored in a mobile device non-transitory storage medium that, when executed, cause the mobile device hardware to implement:

a user interface module adapted to provide a graphical display for a mobile device user;

a recording module accessible through the user interface module and configured to record the base audio file to the mobile device non-transitory storage medium;

an audio file processing module configured to assign the primary indicator to the base audio file; and

a networking module configured to transmit the base audio file and the primary indicator to the computer system.

15. The method of claim 13, wherein providing the secondary client to the second mobile device comprises installing, on the second mobile device, a set of instructions executable by second mobile device hardware and stored in a second mobile device non-transitory storage medium that, when executed, cause the second mobile device hardware to implement:

a second user interface module adapted to provide a graphical display for a second mobile device user;

a second recording module accessible through the second user interface module and configured to record the stem audio file to the second mobile device non-transitory storage medium;

a second audio file processing module configured to assign the secondary indicator to the stem audio file; and

a second networking module configured to transmit the stem audio file and the secondary indicator to the computer system.

16. The method of claim 13, further comprising:

providing a tertiary client to a tertiary mobile device;

receiving, from the tertiary client, a search query related to the base audio file;

searching the storage module according to the search query related to the base audio file;

providing, to the tertiary client, the base audio file;

receiving, from the tertiary client, a second stem audio file and a tertiary indicator, wherein the tertiary indicator indicates at least the relationship of the second stem audio file to the base audio file; and

aggregating the second stem audio file with the base audio file according to the primary indicator and the tertiary indicator.

17. A method for aggregating brief audio recordings into a single audio project, the audio project comprising a base audio file and at least one stem audio file, the method being executable by a computer system that includes computer hardware, the method comprising:

accessing a contact database, the contact database comprising hierarchical relational data for a computer system user;

assigning contact permissions for the audio project according to the hierarchical relational data;

recording a base audio file;

reviewing at least one stem audio file;

approving the at least one reviewed stem audio file; and

publishing the audio project.

18. The method of claim 17, wherein assigning contact permissions comprises assigning at least one permission based on a friendship hierarchy derived from the contact database.

19. The method of claim 17, further comprising delegating contact permission assignment control to a secondary user.

20. The method of claim 19, further comprising reclaiming contact permission assignment control from the secondary user.