E-marker find music

• US 7,127,454 B2
• Filed: 08/17/2001
• Issued: 10/24/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 08/17/2001
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.), Sony Electronics Inc. (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.), Sony Electronics Inc. (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Deguchi, Yuichiro
• Primary Examiner(s): Le, Debbie M.
• Application Number:
  US09/932,664
• Publication Number:
  US 20030037035A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,894 Days
• Field of Search: 707 1- 3, 707 9- 10, 707/104, 455/419, 455/403
• US Class Current: 1/1
• 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 16/68 Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9538 Presentation of query results
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99933 Query processing, i.e. searching
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99945 Object-oriented database structure processing

Abstract

Method and system for providing a data marking device data searching system including a user terminal connected to a server terminal over an internet connection for transmitting find music search request, the server terminal in response accessing one or more storage units and retrieving corresponding information such as other marked data for transmission to the user terminal is disclosed.

Claims

1. A data marking search system, comprising:

at least one server computer configured for communicating over a data network;

at least one user database comprising user information and associated user playlists which are configured for access by said server;

said user playlists containing information about music clips which have been broadcast;

wherein said music clip information is associated with corresponding data marks as received from a data marking device;

at least one broadcast playlist database configured for access by said server and for retaining broadcast playlists containing information about music clips which were broadcast by participating radio stations and which correspond to music clip data marks;

wherein each said broadcast playlist contains information about the music clips which have been broadcast including clip name and the artist and/or album;

network interface of said server configured for communicating with a plurality of user terminals each coupled to the data network to transmit a search request corresponding to a marked data, or information about the marked data, wherein said marked data indicates a time and which represents content that is broadcasted at said time and wherein said search request is independent of a frequency corresponding to said content that is broadcasted; and

programming executable on said server computer for,

accessing said user database on storage units each corresponding to a respective one of said plurality of user terminals in response to said search request received from one said user terminal,

searching other user playlists within said user database in response to said search request and locating data marks or associated music clip information that fulfills the conditions of said search, and

transmitting a result, including data marks or associated music clip information broadcast over one or more radio stations, corresponding to said search request to one said user terminal.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein each of the plurality of user terminals includes one of a personal computer, an Internet access enabled personal digital assistant, Wireless Application Protocol enabled mobile telephone, and an I-mode enabled mobile telephone.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the plurality of user terminals and said server are coupled to said data network using one of a TCP/IP protocol, and an AppleTalk protocol.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein said search request includes an indication of selecting said marked data with a search command.

5. The system of claim 4, wherein said indication includes a drag and drop operation of an icon representative of said marked data displayed on said one user terminal to an icon representative of said search request.

6. The system of claim 5, wherein said icon representative of said marked data includes a hypertext link.

7. The system of claim 5, wherein said icon representative of said search request includes one of a two-dimensional still image or a three-dimensional still image, and a dynamic video image.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein said programming executable on said server is configured to output a search request in progress display upon one user terminal after said search request is transmitted.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein said conditions of said search are based on music clip title, genre of music, or on broadcast station.

10. The system of claim 9:

wherein each of said one or more user playlist databases includes information corresponding to the marked data corresponding to the respective user terminals; and

wherein said user playlists contain information about music clips which have been broadcast.

11. The system of claim 1, wherein said marked data includes information corresponding to a bookmarked music clip broadcast over a radio station.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein said information corresponding to the bookmarked music clip includes one or more of a name of the music clip, a name of the music clip artist, and a name of the music clip album.

13. The system of claim 1, wherein the result corresponding to the search request transmitted to the user terminal includes one or more of information corresponding to music clips broadcast over one or more radio stations.

14. A data marking search system, comprising:

at least one server computer configured for communicating over a data network;

at least one user database comprising user information and associated user playlists which are configured for access by said server;

said user playlists containing information about music clips which have been broadcast;

wherein said music clip information is associated with corresponding data marks as received from a data marking device;

at least one broadcast database configured for access by said server and for retaining broadcast playlists containing information about music clips which were broadcast by participating radio stations and which correspond to music clip data marks;

wherein each said broadcast playlist contains information about the music clips which have been broadcast including clip name and the artist and/or album;

network interface of said server configured for communicating with a plurality of user terminals each coupled to the data network to transmit a search request corresponding to a marked data, or information about the marked data, wherein said marked data indicates a time and which represents content that is broadcasted at said time and wherein said search request is independent of a frequency corresponding to said content that is broadcasted;

programming executable on said server computer for,

accessing said user database in response to a search request received from a first user operating said one or more of said plurality of user terminals,

searching user playlists for music clips bookmarked by other than said first user within said user database in response to said search request and locating data marks or associated music clip information that fulfills the conditions of said search, and

transmitting a result of said searching, including data marks or associated music clip information about previously broadcast material, to said first user operating one said user terminal in response to said data searching operation.

15. The system of claim 14, wherein conditions of said search are based on music clip title, genre of music, or on broadcast station.

16. The system of claim 14, wherein said programming executable on said server is configured to display a search result on the user terminal based on said data searching operation.

17. The system of claim 14, wherein said searching of user playlists includes accessing a storage unit of another plurality of user terminals and retrieving data corresponding to said marked data.

18. The system of claim 17, wherein said data corresponding to said marked data retrieved from said storage units of said other user terminals includes information corresponding to broadcast music clips marked by the users of the respective other user terminals.