System and method for recording and sharing music

• US 8,918,484 B2
• Filed: 03/16/2012
• Issued: 12/23/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 03/17/2011
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Charles Moncavage, Joseph E. Maenner
• Original Assignee: Charles Moncavage, Joseph E. Maenner
• Inventors: Moncavage, Charles, Maenner, Joseph E.
• Primary Examiner(s): WASEL, MOHAMED A
• Application Number:
  US14/003,079
• Publication Number:
  US 20130346413A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,012 Days
• Field of Search: 709217-219
• US Class Current: 709/219
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/4387 by the use of playlists
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 1/0033 Recording/reproducing or transmission of music for electrophonic musical instruments
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 1/361 Recording/reproducing of accompaniment for use with an external source, e.g. karaoke systems
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 1/365 the accompaniment information being stored on a host computer and transmitted to a reproducing terminal by means of a network, e.g. public telephone lines
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 2220/106 using icons, e.g. selecting, moving or linking icons, on-screen symbols, screen regions or segments representing musical elements or parameters
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 2240/121 Musical libraries, i.e. musical databases indexed by musical parameters, wavetables, indexing schemes using musical parameters, musical rule bases or knowledge bases, e.g. for automatic composing methods audio retrieval G06F16/60
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 2240/131 Library retrieval, i.e. searching a database or selecting a specific musical piece, segment, pattern, rule or parameter set
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 2240/181 Billing, i.e. purchasing of data contents for use with electrophonic musical instruments; Protocols therefor; Management of transmission or connection time therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 20/10 Digital recording or reproducing
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/034 on discs G11B27/036, G11B27/038 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/403 Arrangements for multi-party communication, e.g. for conferences data switching systems for conference H04L12/18; arrangements for connecting several subscribers to a common circuit, i.e. affording conference facilities H04M3/56; television conferencing systems H04N7/15
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/274 Storing end-user multimedia data in response to end-user request , e.g. network recorder
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8113 comprising music, e.g. song in MP3 format

Abstract

A method includes the steps of electronically storing a plurality of songs on a server; allowing a first user to select one of the plurality of songs; allowing the first user to play the one of the plurality of songs and record a user-generated track while the one of the plurality of songs is playing; and saving the user-generated track on the server separate from the one of the plurality of songs. An electronic system that allows the first user to perform the method is also disclosed.

Claims

1. A method of recording music, the method comprising the steps of:

a) electronically storing a plurality of original songs on a server at a first location;

b) allowing a first user to select one of the plurality of original songs from a second location across an electronic network;

c) allowing the first user to play the one of the plurality of original songs at the second location and to record a user-generated track at the first location while the one of the plurality of original songs is playing; and

d) saving only the user-generated track on the server at the first location separate from the one of the plurality of original songs.

2. The method according to claim 1, further comprising storing the user-generated track in one of a plurality of predefined instrument categories.

3. The method according to claim 2, further comprising allowing a plurality of additional user-generated tracks to be recorded and categorized in the plurality of predefined instrument categories.

4. The method according to claim 3, further comprising allowing a second user to select at least one of the plurality of additional user-generated tracks to be combined by the second user to form a cover song.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein the one of the plurality of original songs has a start time and wherein the user-generated track has the same start time.

6. The method according to claim 1, wherein the one of the plurality of original songs has a time duration and wherein the user-generated track has the same time duration.

7. The method according to claim 1, further comprising, after step d), allowing the first user to combine the user-generated track with at least one other user-generated track to form a cover song.

8. A recording system comprising a server located at a first location, the server containing a plurality of original songs in a first database, the server being electronically connected across an electronic network to a recording site, wherein the server is adapted to simultaneously transmit one of the plurality of original songs across the network to the recording site and to record a track being played at the recording site to a second database in the server, wherein the one of the original songs has a start time and wherein the track has the same start time.

9. The recording system according to claim 8, wherein the second database comprises a plurality of tracks stored in predefined musical instrument categories.

10. The recording system according to claim 8, wherein the one of the original songs has a time duration and wherein the track has the same time duration.

11. The recording system according claim 8, wherein the track is combinable with at least one other track at a mixing site electronically connected to the second database across an electronic network to form a cover song.

12. The recording system according to claim 11, further comprising a payment acceptance module electronically connected to the second database and adapted to accept a payment from the mixing site.

13. A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium, having encoded thereon program code, wherein, when the program code is executed by a machine, the machine implements a method for recording music, comprising the steps of:

a) electronically storing a plurality of original songs on a server at a first location;

b) allowing a first user to select one of the plurality of original songs from a second location across an electronic network;

c) allowing the first user to play the one of the plurality of original songs at the second location and to record a user-generated track at the first location while the one of the plurality of original songs is playing; and

d) saving only the user-generated track on the server at the first location separate from the one of the plurality of original songs.

14. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium according to claim 13, wherein the method further comprises storing the user-generated track in one of a plurality of predefined instrument categories.

15. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium according to claim 14, wherein the method further comprises allowing a plurality of additional user-generated tracks to be recorded and categorized in the plurality of predefined instrument categories.

16. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium according to claim 15, wherein the method further comprises allowing a second user to select at least one of the plurality of additional user-generated tracks to be combined by the second user to form a song.

17. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium according to claim 16, wherein the method further comprises accepting an electronic payment across the electronic network from the second user.

18. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium according to claim 13, wherein the method further comprises, before step b), accepting an electronic payment across the electronic network from the first user.

19. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium according to claim 13, wherein the method further comprises, after step d), allowing the first user to combine the user-generated track with at least one other user-generated track to form a cover song.