Patent ID: 11972748
Assignee: SMULE, INC.
Field: Other consumer goods (Other fields)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 0:
1. A system comprising:
first and second media capture devices communicatively coupled via respective network communication interfaces for multi-performer collaboration relative to a baseline media encoding of an audio work;
the first media capture device providing a first user thereof with a user interface for selecting a seed portion of the audio work selected from amongst pre-marked or labeled portions of the audio work and configured to capture first type of media content of the first user performed against an audible rendering on the first media capture device of at least a portion of the audio work, wherein the seed portion delimits a segment of the audio work to which a second user of the second media capture device is invited to contribute a second type of media content specified by the first user and captured at the second media capture device; and
the second media capture device configured (i) to receive, via its network communications interface, the seed portion of the audio work and an indication of the second type of media content selected by the first user at the first media capture device and (ii) to capture the second type of media content of the second user performed against a further audible rendering on the second media capture device of the seed portion.