Tena Technology, LLC

Landmark Digital Services LLC

Ikorongo Technology, LLC

Shazam Investments Limited

Fatbubble, Inc

Ikorongo Texas, LLC

Shazam Entertainment Limited

Avery Li-Chun Wang

Darren P. Briggs

David L. De Busk

Richard Wing Cheong Tang

Michael Karliner

Darren P Briggs

Brady O Bruce

Michael W Mitchell

Emile L Reed, Iv

David L DeBusk

Richard W Cheong Tang

Paul P Griffin, Jr

David A Gilbert

Jack Jenkins

Fredric I Graham

George Anderson Cook

Richard Wardwell

Dustin Withers

Richard C Wardwell, Iii

David L De Busk

The present invention includes methods and devices for passively tracking and selectively sharing user experiences with communication devices, including computers, web-enabled telephones, and PDAs. User rating or comments on their experiences can be captured. Particular aspects of the present invention are described in the claims, specification and drawings.

Method and apparatus for selectively sharing and passively tracking communication device experiences

A system and method are described for recognizing repeated audio material within at least one media stream without prior knowledge of the nature of the repeated material. The system and method are able to create a screening database from the media stream or streams. An unknown sample audio fragment is taken from the media stream and compared against the screening database to find if there are matching fragments within the media streams by determining if the unknown sample matches any samples in the screening database.

Automatic identification of repeated material in audio signals

A system for monitoring and recognizing audio broadcasts is described. The system includes a plurality of geographically distributed monitoring stations, each of the monitoring stations receiving unknown audio data from a plurality of audio broadcasts. A recognition system receives the unknown audio data from the plurality of monitoring stations and compares the unknown audio data against a database of signature files. The database of signature files, or index sets, corresponds to a library of known audio files, such that the recognition system is able to identify known audio files in the unknown audio stream as a result of the comparison. The system further includes a nervous system able to monitor and configure the plurality of monitoring stations and the recognition system, and a heuristics and reporting system able to analyze the results of the comparison performed by the recognition system and use metadata associated with each of the known audio files to generate a report of the contents of plurality of audio broadcasts.

System and method for monitoring and recognizing broadcast data

A media content monitoring system uses a rack adapted to receive multiple carrier boards to improve the system's ability to be configured to specific applications. Each carrier board contains tuner modules for receiving AM/FM broadcasts, satellite radio broadcasts, TV audio broadcasts, HD, IBOC, DAB and DRM digital radio broadcasts, etc. The tuner modules produce a USB output that is combined by a USB hub on the carrier boards into a single USB output. The carrier board outputs are in turn combined by a rack based USB hub into single USB output that is provided to a host computer. The host computer includes content identification software that automatically identifies selected media content received by the tuner modules and stores the selected content in a database. The host computer can send control codes to the tuner modules to alter their reception parameters.

Device for monitoring multiple broadcast signals

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Darren P Briggs