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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.

Date of Patent:
Sep. 02, 2008

Filed:

Feb. 24, 2004
Applicants:

Christopher J. C. Burges, Bellevue, WA (US);

John C. Platt, Redmond, WA (US);

Daniel Plastina, Sammamish, WA (US);

Erin L. Renshaw, Kirkland, WA (US);

Inventors:

Christopher J. C. Burges, Bellevue, WA (US);

John C. Platt, Redmond, WA (US);

Daniel Plastina, Sammamish, WA (US);

Erin L. Renshaw, Kirkland, WA (US);

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

The present invention relates to a system and methodology to facilitate automatic management and pruning of audio files residing in a database. Audio fingerprinting is a powerful tool for identifying streaming or file-based audio, using a database of fingerprints. Duplicate detection identifies duplicate audio clips in a set, even if the clips differ in compression quality or duration. The present invention can be provided as a self-contained application that it does not require an external database of fingerprints. Also, a user interface provides various options for managing and pruning the audio files.


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