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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 27, 2008
Filed:
Feb. 24, 2004
Christopher J. C. Burges, Bellevue, WA (US);
John C. Platt, Redmond, WA (US);
Daniel Plastina, Sammamish, WA (US);
Erin L. Renshaw, Kirkland, WA (US);
Henrique S. Malvar, Sammamish, WA (US);
Christopher J. C. Burges, Bellevue, WA (US);
John C. Platt, Redmond, WA (US);
Daniel Plastina, Sammamish, WA (US);
Erin L. Renshaw, Kirkland, WA (US);
Henrique S. Malvar, Sammamish, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
The present invention relates to a system and methodology to facilitate automatic generation of mnemonic audio portions or segments referred to as audio thumbnails. A system is provided for summarizing audio information. The system includes an analysis component to determine common features in an audio file and a mnemonic detector to extract fingerprint portions of the audio file based in part on the common features in order to generate a thumbnail of the audio file. The generated thumbnails can then be employed to facilitate browsing or searching audio files in order to mitigate listening to longer portions or segments of such files.