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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 05, 2013
Filed:
Apr. 03, 2012
Jeffrey L. Caruso, Carlisle, MA (US);
Nicholas Seet, Los Angeles, CA (US);
William Shawn Yeager, Carlsbad, CA (US);
Jeffrey L. Caruso, Carlisle, MA (US);
Nicholas Seet, Los Angeles, CA (US);
William Shawn Yeager, Carlsbad, CA (US);
Yahoo! Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
A characteristic thumbprint is extracted from a data signal, the thumbprint based on statistics relating to the data signal. The data signal can be compared indirectly by matching this thumbprint against one or more reference thumbprints. The data signal may be any type of signal, including streaming digitized audio or obtained from static files. A database may contain a number of these characteristic thumbprints, and the database can be searched for a particular thumbprint.