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Arrangements employing content identification and/or distribution identification data

  • US 9,402,099 B2
  • Filed: 03/20/2012
  • Issued: 07/26/2016
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/14/2011
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method comprising the acts:

  • capturing ambient audio from a user'"'"'s environment using a smartphone, and producing samples of audio data therefrom;

    generating fingerprint data from the audio data, using a processor of the smartphone, and providing the fingerprint data to a system, said generating including performing a series of Fast Fourier Transforms on overlapping windowed excerpts of the audio samples, each windowed excerpt comprising 1024 samples;

    receiving, in response to said providing of the fingerprint data, fingerprint-based audio information identifying the captured audio;

    also generating watermark-based distributor information by performing a digital watermark decoding operation on the audio data, using said processor, to extract digital watermark payload data previously steganographically encoded therein, said watermark payload data indicating a distributor that participated in delivering the audio to the user'"'"'s environment; and

    selecting software for execution on the smartphone, from among plural alternatives, based on both the fingerprint-based audio information and the watermark-based distributor information, and executing said selected software;

    wherein;

    first software is selected for execution when first audio content is delivered with participation of a first distributor, and second, different, software is selected for execution when said first audio content is delivered with participation of a second distributor different than the first distributor.

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