Patent ID: 11916981
Assignee: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC G  H

Claim 17:
18. A method comprising:
receiving, by a first computer system, a plurality of sets of audio data from each of a plurality of computer systems over one or more networks, wherein each of the plurality of computer systems is associated with one of a plurality of listeners to a media program;
determining, by the first computer system, at least one attribute of each of the sets of audio data, wherein each of the sets of audio data represents at least a set of words spoken by one of the plurality of listeners, and wherein the at least one attribute is one of:
a size of one of the sets of audio data;
a format of the one of the sets of audio data;
a duration of the one of the sets of audio data;
a number of audio channels represented in the one of the sets of audio data;
an intensity of the one of the sets of audio data;
a sampling rate of the one of the sets of audio data; or
a bit depth of the one of the sets of audio data;

identifying, by the first computer system for each of the sets of audio data, a profile of the one of the plurality of listeners;
identifying, by the first computer system for each of the sets of audio data, the set of words represented in one of the sets of audio data spoken by one of the plurality of listeners;
determining, by the first computer system, a ranking of the sets of data or the plurality of listeners based at least in part on:
the at least one attribute of each of the sets of audio data;
information represented in the profiles of the listeners; and
the sets of words spoken by the plurality of listeners represented in the sets of audio data;

selecting, by the first computer system, one of the sets of data based at least in part on the ranking; and
transmitting, by the first computer system, the selected one of the sets of data to at least the plurality of computer systems over the one or more networks.