Yahoo! Inc.

Sean Cornell Joshlin

Bradley D Kindig

Ted E Dunning

Christopher P Archibald

Amir Doron

Philip Mansiel Pellouchoud

Kevin L Sitze

Daniel Baird

Michael J Kogan

Mark Alan Laffoon

Robert F Kleemann

Ameen Hikmat Abed

Nathan Lavar Clegg

Sean Robert Sullivan

Improved techniques for enhancing, associating, and linking various sources of metadata for music files, to allow integration of commercially generated metadata with user-entered metadata, and to ensure that metadata provided to the user is of the highest quality and accuracy available, even when the metadata comes from disparate sources having different levels of credibility. The invention further provides improved techniques for identifying approximate matches when querying metadata databases, and also provides improved techniques for accepting user submissions of metadata, for categorizing user submissions according to relative credibility, and for integrating user submissions with existing metadata.

Associating and linking compact disc metadata

An online music purchasing system and method is disclosed, in which a radio service operates on a user's computer and is configured for receiving and playing digital radio representations of media content in near real-time in a radio session. A content server is configured for serving the digital radio representations of media content to the radio service, and a radio sequence server is configured for serving a sequential list of currently-playing and previously-played media content of the radio session to the radio service. An account server is configured for receiving a signal indicative of a user's desire to purchase a file of one of a currently-playing or previously-played media content. A download manager is configured for downloading the file to the user's computer according to the signal indicative of the user's desire to purchase the file.

Music purchasing and playing system and method

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San Marcos, CA, United States of America

Sean Cornell Joshlin