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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 19, 2018
Filed:
Jul. 07, 2015
Voicebase, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Jan Jannink, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Walter Bachtiger, Novato, CA (US);
Other;
Abstract
Systems for receiving, analyzing, and organizing audio content contained within a plurality of media files are disclosed. The systems generally include a server that is configured to receive, index, and store a plurality of media files, which are received by the server from a plurality of sources, within at least one database in communication with the server. In addition, the server is configured to make one or more of the media files accessible to and searchable by, one or more persons other than the original sources of such media files. Still further, the server may be configured to organize audio content included within each of the plurality of media files into bipartite graphs; segment media files into parts that exhibit similar attributes; extract and present meta data to a user that pertain to each media file; and employ multi-variable ranking methods to prioritize media file search results.