Data management of an audio data stream

• US 20120095579A1
• Filed: 06/29/2011
• Published: 04/19/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 02/28/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: The Invention Science Fund I, L.L.C. (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Original Assignee: Searete LLC (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Inventors: Jung, Edward K.Y., Levien, Royce A., Lord, Robert W., Malamud, Mark A., Rinaldo, John D. Jr.
• Granted Patent: US 9,093,121 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 700/94
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2020/00014 the compressed signal being an audio signal
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2020/00079 the compression ratio or quality level being adapted to circumstances, e.g. to the available recording space
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/002 Programmed access in sequence to a plurality of record carriers or indexed parts, e.g. tracks, thereof, e.g. for editing; transfer of record carriers from magazine G11B15/68, G11B17/10; G11B17/22
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/034 on discs G11B27/036, G11B27/038 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/22 Means responsive to presence or absence of recorded information signals
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/30 on the same track as the main recording
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/34 Indicating arrangements indicating means incorporated in magazine or cassette G11B23/046 and G11B23/0875; indicating measured values in general G01D
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/233 Processing of audio elementary streams monitoring, identification or recognition of audio in broadcast systems H04H60/58
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/422 Input-only peripherals , i.e. input devices connected to specially adapted client devices, e.g. global positioning system [GPS] input devices also receiving signals from specially adapted client devices H04N21/4104
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/439 Processing of audio elementary streams
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8455 involving pointers to the content, e.g. pointers to the I-frames of the video stream

Abstract

In one aspect, a method related to data management includes but is not limited to accepting input for a designation of a reference designator in an audio data stream; accepting input for a designation of a beginning demarcation designator in the audio data stream; accepting input for a designation of an ending demarcation designator in the audio data stream; and accepting input for retaining at a high resolution a portion of the audio data stream beginning substantially at the beginning demarcation designator and ending substantially at the ending demarcation designator. In addition, other method, system, and program product aspects are described in the claims, drawings, and/or text forming a part of the present application.

Claims

1. A method at least partially implemented using hardware, the method comprising:

accepting input for a designation of a reference designator in an audio data stream;

accepting input for a designation of a beginning demarcation designator in the audio data stream;

accepting input for a designation of an ending demarcation designator in the audio data stream; and

accepting input for retaining at a high resolution a portion of the audio data stream beginning substantially at the beginning demarcation designator and ending substantially at the ending demarcation designator.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the accepting input for a designation of a reference designator in an audio data stream comprises:

accepting input for a confirmation of the designation of the reference designator in the audio data stream.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the accepting input for a designation of a reference designator in an audio data stream comprises:

accepting a tactile input.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the accepting input for a designation of a reference designator in an audio data stream comprises:

accepting a sonic input.

10. The method of claim 7, wherein the accepting a sonic input comprises:

accepting a mechanically-produced sonic input.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein the accepting input for a designation of a reference designator in an audio data stream comprises:

accepting a visual input.

15. The method of claim 12, wherein the accepting a visual input comprises:

accepting the visual input, wherein the visual input includes data representing stored visual information.

17. The method of claim 1, wherein the accepting input for a designation of a beginning demarcation designator in the audio data stream comprises:

accepting input for a designation of an ending designator of a latest relative silence prior to the reference designator in the audio data stream.

20. The method of claim 1, wherein the accepting input for a designation of a beginning demarcation designator in the audio data stream comprises:

accepting a tactile input.

23. The method of claim 20, wherein the accepting a tactile input comprises:

accepting the tactile input introduced via an interaction with a graphical user interface feature.

24. The method of claim 1, wherein the accepting input for a designation of a beginning demarcation designator in the audio data stream comprises:

accepting a sonic input.

28. The method of claim 24, wherein the accepting a sonic input comprises:

accepting the sonic input, wherein the sonic input includes data representing stored sonic information.

29. The method of claim 1, wherein the accepting input for a designation of a beginning demarcation designator in the audio data stream comprises:

accepting a visual input.

31. The method of claim 29, wherein the accepting a visual input comprises:

accepting the visual input introduced via an electromagnetic-radiation detection device.

33. The method of claim 1, wherein the accepting input for a designation of an ending demarcation designator in the audio data stream comprises:

accepting input for a confirmation of the designation of the ending demarcation designator in the audio data stream.

35. The method of claim 1, wherein the accepting input for a designation of an ending demarcation designator in the audio data stream comprises:

accepting input of a designation of a beginning designator of a relative silence after a sound at the reference designator in the audio data stream.

46. The method of claim 1, wherein the accepting input for a designation of an ending demarcation designator in the audio data stream comprises:

accepting a visual input.

50. The method of claim 1, wherein the accepting input for retaining at a high resolution a portion of the audio data stream beginning substantially at the beginning demarcation designator and ending substantially at the ending demarcation designator comprises:

accepting an input for a confirmation of the input for retaining at the high resolution the portion of the audio data stream.

51. The method of claim 1, wherein the accepting input for retaining at a high resolution a portion of the audio data stream beginning substantially at the beginning demarcation designator and ending substantially at the ending demarcation designator comprises:

accepting an input for a designation of a resolution value.

52. The method of claim 1, wherein the accepting input for retaining at a high resolution a portion of the audio data stream beginning substantially at the beginning demarcation designator and ending substantially at the ending demarcation designator comprises:

accepting an input for a designation of a frequency spectrum characteristic.

53. The method of claim 1, further comprises:

retaining at the high resolution the portion of the audio data stream beginning substantially at the beginning demarcation designator and ending substantially at the ending demarcation designator.

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56. A system related to data management, the system comprising:

means for accepting input for a designation of a reference designator in an audio data stream;

means for accepting input for a designation of a beginning demarcation designator in the audio data stream;

means for accepting input for a designation of an ending demarcation designator in the audio data stream; and

means for accepting input for retaining at a high resolution a portion of the audio data stream beginning substantially at the beginning demarcation designator and ending substantially at the ending demarcation designator, wherein the means for accepting input for the designation of the reference designator, the means for accepting input for the designation of the beginning demarcation designator, the means for accepting input for the designation of the ending demarcation designator, and the means for accepting input for retaining comprise at least two separate means.

57. The system of claim 56, further comprising:

means for retaining at the high resolution the portion of the audio data stream beginning substantially at the beginning demarcation designator and ending substantially at the ending demarcation designator.

58. A program product related to data management, the program product comprising:

a non-transitory signal bearing medium bearing one or more instructions that, when executed, perform a method comprising;

accepting input for a designation of a reference designator in an audio data stream;

accepting input for a designation of a beginning demarcation designator in the audio data stream;

accepting input for a designation of an ending demarcation designator in the audio data stream; and

accepting input for retaining at a high resolution a portion of the audio data stream beginning substantially at the beginning demarcation designator and ending substantially at the ending demarcation designator.

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