Patent ID: 9520142
Filing Date: 2016-12-13
CPC Classification: G06F,G10L,H04H,H04R,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method for monitoring audio information by a user device comprising: (a) generating audio signatures, using an audio signature generator, of ambient audio content captured by the user device; (b) receiving and storing conditions of the user device that were present when the ambient audio content for each audio signature was captured; (c) performing audio content recognition on the audio signatures by comparing in a query engine the generated audio signatures to audio signatures previously stored in a database associated with the query engine; (d) identifying generated audio signatures that match audio signatures stored in the database within a threshold confidence level, thereby establishing successful audio content recognition; (e) identifying the conditions of the user device that were present for successful audio content recognition; (f) generating scheduling rules, in a rule generation unit, regarding the conditions present during successful audio content recognition and providing the scheduling rules to a scheduling logic unit; and (g) controlling when the user device captures audio content and/or generates audio signatures based on the scheduling rules in the scheduling logic unit, wherein the scheduling logic unit allows for capturing of ambient audio content and generation of audio signatures when currently present conditions of the user device match the conditions present during successful audio content recognition, and the scheduling logic unit inhibits capturing of ambient audio content and/or generation of audio signatures when currently present conditions of the user device do not match the conditions present during successful audio content recognition.