System and method for overlapping audio elements in a customized personal radio broadcast

• US 6,609,096 B1
• Filed: 09/07/2000
• Issued: 08/19/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 09/07/2000
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Raindrops Licensing LLC (IP Edge LLC)
• Original Assignee: Clix Network, Inc.
• Inventors: Viola, Paul A., De Bonet, Jeremy S.
• Primary Examiner(s): MCFADDEN, SUSAN IRIS
• Application Number:
  US09/657,256
• Time in Patent Office: 1,076 Days
• Field of Search: 704/500, 704/260, 704/270, 704/275, 370/310, 386/46, 386/68, 386/69, 386/95, 386/96
• US Class Current: 704/500
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 20/82 using signals not modulated onto a carrier
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/04 Studio equipment; Interconnection of studios
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/66 for using the result on distributors' side
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1101 Session protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/612 for unicast
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/762 at the source reformatting of additional data in video distribution servers H04N21/2355
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/55 Push-based network services
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/329 in the application layer [OSI layer 7]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/40 Network security protocols

Abstract

A method for overlapping stored audio elements in a system for providing a customized radio broadcast. The method includes the steps of dividing a first audio element into a plurality of audio element components; selecting one of said audio element components; decompressing the selected audio element component; selecting a second audio element; decompressing the second audio element; mixing the decompressed audio element component with the decompressed second audio element to form a mixed audio element component; and compressing the mixed audio element component to form a compressed overlapping audio element component. The compressed overlapping audio element component may replace the selected audio component. The first audio element may be a song, while the second audio element may be a DJ introduction. Accordingly, the compressed overlapping audio element may be broadcast followed by the remaining components of the song audio element.

Claims

1. A method for overlapping stored audio elements in a system for providing a customized radio broadcast comprising:

2. The method of claim 1 further comprising replacing the selected audio element component with the compressed overlapping audio element component.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein the first audio element is a song.

4. The method of claim 3 wherein the song is divided into an introduction and a body audio element component.

5. The method of claim 4 wherein the second audio element is a DJ introduction.

6. The method of claim 3 wherein the song is divided into a body and a tail audio element component.

7. The method of claim 6 wherein the second audio element is a DJ outroduction.

8. The method of claim 1 further comprising transmitting the compressed overlapping audio element component to a remote user such that said first audio element and said second audio element sound to the remote user as if the elements were mixed at the time of recording.

9. In a system for providing a customized radio broadcast to one or more users, a personal radio server system comprising:

a general purpose computer having a central processing unit and memory for storing a plurality of audio elements;

said central processing unit implementing a program operable to divide a first audio element into audio element components, to select one of said audio element components, and to mix the audio element component with a second audio element.

10. The system of claim 9 wherein the first audio element is a song.

11. The system of claim 10 wherein the song is divided into an introduction and a body audio element component.

12. The system of claim 11 wherein the second audio element is a DJ introduction.

13. The system of claim 12 wherein the introduction audio element component is mixed with a DJ introduction.

14. The system of claim 10 wherein the song is divided into a body and a tail audio element component.

15. The system of claim 14 wherein the second audio element is a DJ outroduction.

16. The system of claim 15 wherein the tail audio element component is mixed with a DJ outroduction.

17. A system for overlapping stored audio elements in a customized radio broadcast comprising: