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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:
Apr. 14, 2009
Filed:
Mar. 17, 2006
Applicant:
Alexei Kourbatov, Bellevue, WA (US);
Inventor:
Alexei Kourbatov, Bellevue, WA (US);
Assignee:
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10H 1/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A musical information retrieval system and process is presented. The system and process generally involves a user employing a unique graphic user interface (GUI) to enter a musical theme query, which is then characterized using a special normalized format. The characterized musical query is then compared in a variety of ways to similarly characterized musical themes resident in a database to identify one or more matching themes. The matching theme or themes are then reported to the user.