SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CAPTURING AND ACCESSING REAL-TIME AUDIO AND ASSOCIATED METADATA

• US 20190317722A1
• Filed: 04/11/2018
• Published: 10/17/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 04/11/2018
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Matthew Cohn
• Original Assignee: Matthew Cohn
• Inventors: Cohn, Matthew
• Granted Patent: US 10,891,100 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/61 Indexing; Data structures therefor; Storage structures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/635 Filtering based on additional data, e.g. user or group profiles
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/639 using playlists
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/165 Management of the audio stream, e.g. setting of volume, audio stream path
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 19/00 Speech or audio signals analysis-synthesis techniques for redundancy reduction, e.g. in vocoders; Coding or decoding of speech or audio signals, using source filter models or psychoacoustic analysis in musical instruments G10H
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/29 Arrangements for monitoring broadcast services or broadcast-related services
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/40 for identifying broadcast time
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/45 for identifying users
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/66 for using the result on distributors' side
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/73 using meta-information
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/06 specially adapted for file transfer, e.g. file transfer protocol [FTP]

Abstract

Disclosed embodiments provide methods and systems to capture, persist, and access a real-time audio stream and metadata associated with a radio broadcast. The real-time audio stream is captured on an audio capture device comprising a real-time clock. The audio is associated with the points in time it is captured with time markers. In embodiments, the audio is encoded for transmission with the time markers to a remote server. After being captured, encoded, and associated with time markers, the audio is transmitted to a remote server for archiving. Client devices are used to provide access to archived content. Clients request portions of the real-time audio stream from the remote server, and identify the portions they are requesting by including in their request either real-time bounds, or other information which is associated on the remote server with real-time bounds, such as content descriptor types.

Claims

1. An electronic device, comprising:

a processor;

a memory coupled to the processor, the memory containing instructions, which when executed by the processor, perform the steps of;

receiving a plurality of audio data files, wherein each of the plurality of audio data files includes associated time-of-day information;

receiving one or more pieces of metadata, wherein each of the one or more pieces of metadata comprises a start time and an end time;

associating each of the one or more pieces of metadata with one or more audio data files based on the time-of-day information.

2. The device of claim 1, further comprising, a broadcast console interface, and wherein the memory further comprises instructions, that when executed by the processor, perform the steps of:

receiving a login event from a computer device;

receiving a tally-on event from a broadcast console device; and

associating the tally-on event with the login event.

3. The device of claim 2, wherein the memory further comprises instructions, that when executed by the processor, perform the steps of:

receiving a tally-off event from the broadcast console device; and

associating the tally-off event with the tally-on event.

4. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the memory further comprises instructions, that when executed by the processor, perform the steps of:

receiving a search query, wherein the search query includes a time of day;

identifying one or more of the plurality of audio data files having associated metadata that matches the search query; and

outputting an audio stream comprised of the one or more of the plurality of audio data files having associated metadata that matches the search query.

5. An electronic device, comprising:

a processor;

a memory coupled to the processor, the memory containing instructions, which when executed by the processor, perform the steps of;

receiving an audio signal;

compressing the audio signal;

creating a plurality of audio files, wherein each audio file comprises a portion of the compressed audio signal;

associating a time of day with each audio file; and

transmitting each audio file to a server.

6. The device of claim 5, further comprising, a broadcast console interface, and wherein the memory further comprises instructions, that when executed by the processor, perform the steps of:

receiving a tally-on event from a broadcast console device; and

associating the tally-on event with a time-of-day.

7. The device of claim 6, wherein the memory further comprises instructions, that when executed by the processor, perform the steps of:

receiving a tally-off event from the broadcast console device; and

associating the tally-off event with the tally-on event.

8. The device of claim 6, wherein the broadcast console interface comprises a contact closure interface.

9. The device of claim 5, wherein the memory further comprises instructions, that when executed by the processor, perform the step of compressing the audio signal into an AAC format.

10. the device of claim 5, wherein the memory further comprises instructions, that when executed by the processor, perform the step of compressing the audio signal into an mp3 format.

11. (canceled)

14. An electronic device, comprising:

a processor;

a memory coupled to the processor, the memory containing instructions, which when executed by the processor, perform the steps of;

sending a query to an audio server, wherein the query comprises a time of day, and one or more content descriptor types;

sending a manifest request to the audio server for a specified time period;

requesting a plurality of audio filed from the audio server based on information received from the manifest request;

receiving the plurality of audio files from the audio server, wherein the plurality of audio files corresponds to at least one of the one or more content descriptor types; and

further comprising an electronic display coupled to the processor, and wherein the memory further comprises instructions, that when executed by the processor, perform the steps of;

displaying a list of content descriptor types;

receiving a selection of a first content descriptor type from the list of content descriptor type;

playing audio corresponding to the first content descriptor type and having a first time-of-day start time;

rendering an indication of the first content descriptor type on the electronic display;

responsive to a seek back event, playing audio corresponding to a second content descriptor type, wherein the audio corresponding to the second content descriptor type has a second time-of-day start time; and

rendering an indication of the second content descriptor type on the electronic display.

12. The device of claim 14, wherein the memory further comprises instructions, that when executed by the processor, perform the step of sending a query comprising a content descriptor type of name.

13. The device of claim 14, wherein the memory further comprises instructions, that when executed by the processor, perform the step of sending a query comprising a keyword string.

15. The device of claim 14, wherein the memory further comprises instructions, that when executed by the processor, perform the steps of:

rendering the first time-of-day start time and the second time-of-day start time, wherein the first time-of-day start time is identical to the second time-of-day start time.

17. The device of claim 14, wherein the memory further comprises instructions, that when executed by the processor, perform the steps of:

rendering a first graphical element corresponding to the first content descriptor type; and

rendering a second graphical element corresponding to the second content descriptor type.

18. The electronic device of claim 14, wherein the memory further comprises instructions, that when executed by the processor, perform the steps of:

receiving a playback mode request for a continuous playback mode;

receiving a start time associated with the continuous playback mode;

receiving an audio stream comprised of one or more of the plurality of audio files, wherein at least one of the one or more of the plurality of audio files includes a time-of-day range that begins with, or spans the received start time.

19. The electronic device of claim 14, wherein the memory further comprises instructions, that when executed by the processor, perform the steps of:

receiving a playback mode request for a discrete playback mode;

receiving a content descriptor associated with the discrete playback mode;

identifying a first subset of the plurality of audio files corresponding to a first instance of the content descriptor;

identifying a second subset of the plurality of audio files corresponding to a second instance of the content descriptor;

receiving an audio stream comprised of the first subset of audio files followed by the second subset of audio files.

20. The electronic device of claim 19, wherein the memory further comprises instructions, that when executed by the processor, perform the steps of:

pausing the receiving of the audio stream after playback of the first subset of audio files; and

responsive to receiving a user request, resuming the receiving of the audio stream for the second subset of audio files.

16. An electronic device, comprising:

a processor;

a memory coupled to the processor, the memory containing instructions, which when executed by the processor, perform the steps of;

sending a query to an audio server, wherein the query comprises a time of day, and one or more content descriptor types;

sending a manifest request to the audio server for a specified time period;

requesting a plurality of audio files from the audio server based on information received from the manifest request;

receiving the plurality of audio files from the audio server, wherein the plurality of audio files corresponds to at least one of the one or more content descriptor types; and

further comprising an electronic display coupled to the processor, and wherein the memory further comprises instructions, that when executed by the processor, perform the steps of;

playing audio corresponding to a first instance of a content descriptor type and having a first time-of-day start time;

rendering an indication of the first instance on the electronic display;

responsive to a seek event, playing audio corresponding to a second instance of the content descriptor type, wherein the audio corresponding to the second instance has a second time-of-day start time; and

rendering an indication of the second instance on the electronic display.