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Social broadcasting user experience

  • US 8,498,946 B1
  • Filed: 12/22/2008
  • Issued: 07/30/2013
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/21/2007
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of promoting user participation in a social broadcast environment, comprising:

  • determining, based on an attribution criterion, that one or more users are to receive credit for;

    1) designating a track currently being played on air during a radio broadcast;

    2) interrupting the track currently being played on air during the radio broadcast; and

    3) causing the track to be taken off the radio broadcast immediately by a group action applied to the currently playing track, wherein the group action is input representing the preferences of the users in the group;

    generating, by a processor, an audio signature of the group by processing group profile information, wherein the audio signature is speech synthesized from the group profile information; and

    including in the radio broadcast, by the processor, immediately after the track is taken off the radio, an attribution content comprising the generated audio signature associated with the group.

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