Method and system for communicating between a sender and a recipient via a personalized message including an audio clip extracted from a pre-existing recording
First Claim
1. A music messaging software-as-a-service platform, comprising:
- a computer hardware infrastructure accessible at a network domain and comprising;
first program code that receives, from a sender, a set of first information, the set of first information including a message personalized for an intended recipient, together with non-audio data identifying a lyric phrase from an audio recording;
an audio extraction engine that (i) receives the non-audio data identifying the lyric phrase together with an instance of the audio recording, (ii) identifies a portion of the audio recording where the lyric phrase is likely to be found at least in part by mapping each word in the lyric phrase to one and only vocal interval determined to exist in the audio recording, (iii) extracts the portion of the audio recording into a short snippet; and
(iv) writes the short snippet into a database; and
a message generator that combines a reference to the short snippet with the message to generate and output a music message note for the intended recipient; and
second program code operative to cause delivery of the short snippet in response to receipt of data indicating that the reference is selected by the intended recipient.
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Abstract
A method of communicating between a sender and a recipient via a personalized message is disclosed comprising: (a) identifying text, via the user interface of a communication device, of a desired lyric phrase from within a pre-existing audio recording; (b) extracting audio substantially associated with the desired lyric phrase from the pre-existing recording into a desired audio clip; (c) inputting personalized text via the user interface; (d) creating the personalized message with the sender identification, the personalized text and access to the desired audio clip; (e) sending an electronic message to the electronic address of the recipient, wherein the electronic message may be an SMS/EMS/MMS message, instant message or email message including a link to the personalized message or an EMS/MMS or email message including the personalized message. An associated method of earning money from the communication along with associated systems are also disclosed.
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19 Claims
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1. A music messaging software-as-a-service platform, comprising:
a computer hardware infrastructure accessible at a network domain and comprising; first program code that receives, from a sender, a set of first information, the set of first information including a message personalized for an intended recipient, together with non-audio data identifying a lyric phrase from an audio recording; an audio extraction engine that (i) receives the non-audio data identifying the lyric phrase together with an instance of the audio recording, (ii) identifies a portion of the audio recording where the lyric phrase is likely to be found at least in part by mapping each word in the lyric phrase to one and only vocal interval determined to exist in the audio recording, (iii) extracts the portion of the audio recording into a short snippet; and
(iv) writes the short snippet into a database; anda message generator that combines a reference to the short snippet with the message to generate and output a music message note for the intended recipient; and second program code operative to cause delivery of the short snippet in response to receipt of data indicating that the reference is selected by the intended recipient. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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Current AssigneeAudiobyte LLC
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Original AssigneeRednote LLC
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InventorsGuthery, Scott, van den Bosch, Richard
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Primary Examiner(s)Nguyen, Timothy
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Application NumberUS13/356,387Publication NumberTime in Patent Office1,485 DaysField of Search704/235US Class Current1/1CPC Class CodesG06F 16/68 Retrieval characterised by ...G06F 16/685 using automatically derived...G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed obje...G06Q 20/26 Debit schemes, e.g. "pay now"G06Q 30/0273 Determination of fees for a...G06Q 40/12 AccountingG10L 15/26 Speech to text systems G10L...H04L 51/04 Real-time or near real-time...H04L 51/10 Multimedia informationH04L 51/52 for supporting social netwo...
