Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Digital audio services to augment broadcast radio
- Patent Title (中): 数字音频服务,以增加广播电台
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Application No.: US13529723Application Date: 2012-06-21
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Publication No.: US09330647B1Publication Date: 2016-05-03
- Inventor: Daniel C Bay , Edward Dietz Crump
- Applicant: Daniel C Bay , Edward Dietz Crump
- Applicant Address: US WA Seattle
- Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US WA Seattle
- Agency: Lee & Hayes, PLLC
- Main IPC: H04H20/71
- IPC: H04H20/71 ; G10H1/00

Abstract:
A broadcast radio architecture includes an internet-enabled radio and a remote audio services system. The internet-enabled radio receives broadcast audio content and plays through a speaker, the audio content that is received. The internet-enabled radio receives a user command to replay, from the beginning, a song that is currently being played. In response to the user command, the internet-enabled radio transmits over a network to the audio services system, a snippet of the song that is currently being played. Using the snippet of the song, the audio services system identifies a song from which the snippet was likely recorded and transmits a data stream that includes the song, in its entirety, back to the internet-enabled radio. To provide additional value, the audio services system may also identify and transmit to the internet-enabled radio, additional content that is deemed likely of interest to users interested in the identified song.
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