Shazam Investments Limited

Landmark Digital Services LLC

David L DeBusk

Darren P Briggs

Avery Li-Chun Wang

Michael Karliner

Richard W Cheong Tang

Paul P Griffin, Jr

David A Gilbert

Fredric I Graham

Jack Jenkins

George Anderson Cook

Richard Wing Cheong Tang

Dustin Withers

Richard Wardwell

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 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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Nashville, TN, United States of America

David L DeBusk