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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 01, 2025
Filed:
Feb. 26, 2024
Gracenote, Inc., Emeryville, CA (US);
Peter C. DiMaria, Berkeley, CA (US);
Markus K. Cremer, Orinda, CA (US);
Barnabas Mink, San Francisco, CA (US);
Tanji Koshio, Emeryville, CA (US);
Kei Tsuji, Emeryville, CA (US);
Gracenote, Inc., New York, NY (US);
Abstract
Techniques of content unification are disclosed. In some example embodiments, a computer-implemented method comprises: determining clusters based a comparison of a plurality of audio content using a first matching criteria, each cluster of the plurality of clusters comprising at least two audio content from the plurality of audio content; for each cluster of the plurality of clusters, determining a representative audio content for the cluster from the at least two audio content of the cluster; loading the corresponding representative audio content of each cluster into an index; matching the query audio content to one of the representative audio contents using a first matching criteria; determining the corresponding cluster of the matched representative audio content; and identifying a match between the query audio content and at least one of the audio content of the cluster of the matched representative audio content based on a comparison using a second matching criteria.