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Patent US7680902 - Method and system for accessing web pages based on playback of recordings - Google Patents
Entertainment content complementary to a musical recording is delivered to a user's computer by a computer network link. The user employs a browser to access the computer network. A plug-in for the browser is able to control an audio CD or other device for playing the musical recording. A script stored...http://www.google.com/patents/US7680902?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US7680902 - Method and system for accessing web pages based on playback of recordings
Publication number US7680902 B2
Application number US 11/841,784
Also published as US7308485, US7945645, US20010052028, US20080040492, US20100106807
Publication number 11841784, 841784, US 7680902 B2, US 7680902B2, US-B2-7680902, US7680902 B2, US7680902B2
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US 7680902 B2
1. A method for associating local and remote data on a local computer connected to a network, the method comprising:
outputting remote data at the local computer based on playback of a recording by the local computer, the remote data obtained via the network from at least one storage location dynamically determined when the playback of the recording occurs using an identifier derived from table of contents information for the recording; and
obtaining the remote data using an at least partial pointer corresponding to the recording, the at least partial pointer obtained from the network by the local computer, wherein the remote data is display data representing a World Wide Web page, and wherein the at least partial pointer at least partially defines a uniform resource locator for the World Wide Web page.
automatically executing a communication program for communication via the network and output of the remote data received from the network, when the recording is played;
determining at a remote computer at least one location, corresponding to the identifier, where the remote data is stored; and
automatically sending the remote data from the at least one location to the local computer via the network.
3. A method for associating local and remote data on a local computer connected to a network, the method comprising:
using a processor to automatically execute on the local computer when a recording is played, a communication program for communication via the network to send information related to table of contents information for the recording;
dynamically determining, at a remote computer, at least one location where remote data is stored corresponding to an identifier derived from the information sent from the local computer;
automatically sending the remote data from the at least one location to the local computer via the network; and
outputting on the local computer the remote data in association with playback of the recording by the local computer, wherein the communication program is a web browser, the network is the Internet, and the remote data is display data representing at least part of one web page.
wherein the information used to determine the identifier includes table of contents information for the recording
wherein the recording is stored on a disc, and
wherein said executing and determining begins when the disc is inserted into a disc drive coupled with the local computer, regardless of whether the communication program has been initiated.
5. A method as recited in claim 1, wherein the remote data includes at least one of an image associated with the recording, animation associated with the recording, and a video associated with the recording.
wherein the remote data includes display data representing an album cover associated with the disc.
7. A method as recited in claim 1, wherein said outputting outputs the remote data including at least one name of a song included in the recording.
8. A method as recited in claim 1, wherein the recording is on a compact disc containing a plurality of tracks, and
wherein said outputting outputs the remote data including at least one title of a corresponding track on the compact disc.
9. A method for associating remote and local data on a local device connected to a network, the method comprising:
deriving an identifier at the local device by numerically processing table of contents information for the recording;
automatically obtaining the remote data from the network by the local device using an at least partial pointer corresponding to the identifier;
outputting at the local device the remote data obtained from the network, based on access to the local data by the local device;
automatically executing a communication program for communication via the network and output of the remote data received from the network, when the local data is accessed; and
automatically requesting the remote data based on the identifier, wherein the communication program is a web browser, the network is the Internet, and the remote data is an internet resource.
10. A method as recited in claim 9, further comprising obtaining the remote data using at least one uniform resource locator corresponding to the identifier and based on the at least partial pointer obtained from the network by the local device.
11. A method as recited in claim 10, wherein the remote data is an Internet resource.
12. A method as recited in claim 9, wherein the remote data include an electronic file of digitally encoded audio.
13. A method as recited in claim 9, wherein the remote data include at least one of an image associated with the local data, animation associated with the local data, and a video associated with the local data.
14. A method as recited in claim 13, wherein the local data is an electronic file of digitally encoded audio, and
wherein the remote data include an album cover associated with the electronic file.
15. A method for associating remote and local data stored in a recording accessed by a local device connected to a network, the method comprising:
using a processor to automatically execute a program on the local device, when the local data are accessed to play the recording for a user of the local device, to obtain at least one pointer string, corresponding to the local data, from at least one database of local data identifiers derived from the local data and pointer strings stored on at least one remote device connected to the local device via the network;
obtaining the remote data via the network from a content provider based on the at least one pointer string;
outputting at the local device the remote data obtained from the network; and
maintaining in the at least one database an association between the local data identifiers and the pointer strings which at least partially define uniform resource locators of corresponding Internet resources for a plurality of items of local data provided by an organization,
wherein the recording is digital audio and the items of local data are electronic files of digital audio; and
wherein the at least one pointer string at least partially defines an address of a World Wide Web page maintained on behalf of at least one person who produced sound for the recording.
16. A method as recited in claim 15, wherein the remote data include at least one of an image of the at least one person, a video in which the at least one person appears and biographical information about the at least one person.
17. A method as recited in claim 15, wherein the remote data include an electronic file of digital audio.
18. A method as recited in claim 15, wherein the remote data include an electronic file of digital audio.
19. A system coupled to a network and associating remote data with local data included in a recording to play back the recording, the system comprising:
a local device located at a first location, including
an access unit playing the recording for a user of the local device and accessing the local data;
a communication unit, coupled to said access unit, automatically obtaining, upon access to the local data by said access unit, the remote data from m. the network using at least one pointer string at least partially defining uniform resource locator corresponding to the local data; and
an output unit, coupled to said communication unit at the first location, outputting the remote data; and
a remote computer, coupled to said communication unit via the network and located at a second location remote from the first location, storing at least one database of recording identifiers and pointer strings, said communication unit obtaining the at least one pointer string from said remote computer, wherein the at least one database stored on said remote computer associates the recording identifiers with at least partial uniform resource locators of corresponding World Wide Web pages for a plurality of recordings released by an organization.
20. A system as recited in claim 19,
wherein said communication unit in said local device further sends to said remote computer information provided with the recording to play back the recording, and
wherein said remote computer determines, based on the information received from said local device, a recording identifier for the recording corresponding to the at least one pointer string.
21. A system as recited in claim 19,
wherein said local device further includes a processor generating a recording identifier for the recording based on information used to play back the recording, and
wherein said communication unit sends the recording identifier to the remote computer to obtain the at least one pointer string.
22. A system coupled to a network and associating remote data with local data included in a recording to play back the recording, the system comprising:
a communication unit, coupled to said access unit, automatically obtaining, upon access to the local data by said access unit, the remote data from the network using at least one pointer string at least partially defining uniform resource locator corresponding to the local data; and
a remote computer, coupled to said communication unit via the network and located at a second location remote from the first location, storing at least one database of recording identifiers and pointer strings, said communication unit obtaining the at least one pointer string from said remote computer, wherein the at least one pointer string at least partially addresses a World Wide Web page maintained on behalf of at least one person who produced sound for the recording.
This is a continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09/820,722, filed Mar. 30, 2001, now U.S. Pat. No. 7,308,485, which is a continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09/354,166, filed Jul. 16, 1999, now U.S. Pat. No. 6,230,192, which is a divisional of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 08/838,082, filed Apr. 15, 1997, now U.S. Pat. No. 5,987,525, and Ser. No. 09/060,876, filed Apr. 15, 1998, now U.S. Pat. No. 6,154,773, all of which are hereby incorporated by reference.
In one of the aspects, software is provided which permits a computer program running on a remote host to control a compact disc (CD) player, DVD player, or the like on a user's computer. (For convenience, we use the term “CD player” to refer also to DVD players and similar devices.) The software is designed to permit the remote host both to initiate actions on the CD player and to become aware of actions which the user has initiated by other controls, such as the buttons on the CD player's front panel or a different CD player control program. This aspect is a building-block for the provision of complementary entertainment for musical recordings when those recordings are fixed in the prevailing contemporary form, the audio CD.
The preferred embodiment operates on the World Wide Web. The software implementation environment provided by the World Wide Web is described in a number of books, for example, John December & Mark Ginsburg, HTML 3.2 and CGI Unleashed (1996). The World Wide Web is based on a network protocol called HTTP (hypertext transfer protocol), which is described in T. Berners-Lee et al., Hypertext Transfer Protocol—HYTP/1.0 (Internet Request for Comments No. 1945, 1996). The HTTP protocol must be run atop a general connection-oriented protocol, which today is generally TCP/IP, described in Douglas E. Corner, Internetworking with TCP/IP (3d ed. 1995). However, the method and system described here are not limited to HTTP running over any particular kind of network software or hardware. The principles apply to other protocols for access to remote information that may come to compete with or supplant HTTP.
As the Shockwave animation is played, a Lingo script executes each time a frame finishes displaying. The Lingo script contains a description of the relationship which should exist between frames of the animation and segments of the musical recording, identified by track number and by time. The Lingo script determines, by using the command plug-in described above, at which track and time the play of the audio CD is. It then refers to the description in order to determine which frames of the animation correspond to that portion of the audio CD. If the current frame is not one of those frames, the Lingo script resets the time line of the animation so that the animation will begin to play at the frame which corresponds to the current position of the audio CD. This permits the visual content to catch up if it ever lags the CD, for example because downloading from the network has fallen behind, because the user's computer lacks the cycles to play the animation at full speed, or because the user has fast forwarded the CD.
A unique identifier for a musical recording may be employed as a database key. A site may maintain a database of information about CDs, for example information about all CDs issued by the particular record company can be maintained on that record company's site. There are various alternative ways for users to navigate this information. For example, they could use a Web page containing many hyperlinks as a table of contents, or they could use a conventional search engine. A third way of searching which is enabled by the unique identifier is for there to be Web page which invites the user to place in the computer's CD drive the CD about which he or she is seeking information. Upon detection of the presence of the CD in the drive, a script in the Web page computes the unique identifier corresponding to the CD and sends it to the server. The server then displays information about the CD retrieved from a database on the basis of that unique identifier. This information may include a Web address (URL) that is related to the audio CD (e.g., that of the artists' home page), simple data such as the names of the songs, and also complementary entertainment, including potentially photographs (e.g., of the band), artwork, animations, and video clips. It is also possible to arrange things so that, when the user inserts an audio CD into the computer, (i) the Web browser is launched if not already running, (ii) the browser computes the CD's unique identifier and from that unique identifier derives a URL, and (iii) the browser does an HTTP get transaction on that URL.
* FUZZY CD ID
* (c) 1996 ION
struct fuzzyCDid {
short numTracks; // start time in
unsigned short fuzzlength[100];
typedef struct fuzzyCDid fuzzyCDid, *fuzzyCDidPtr;
struct cdtrack {
long beginMs; // start time in milliseconds
long lengthMs; // length in milliseconds
void CreateFuzzyId( fuzzyCDidPtr fid, cdPtr cd );
float FuzzyMatch( fuzzyCDidPtr fid1, fuzzyCDidPtr fid2 );
void CreateFuzzyId( fuzzyCDidPtr fid, cdPtr cd )
// first copy in the number of tracks
fid->numTracks = cd->numTracks;
for(i=0;i<fid->numTracks;i++) {
// shift left and create a MSB length thats not exact
fid->fuzzlength[i] = (short)(cd->track[i].length-
MS>>8);
float FuzzyMatch( fuzzyCDidPtr fid1, fuzzyCDidPtr fid2 )
long fidmatcherr = 0, fidmatchtotal = 0;
short i, trackcnt;
float matchpercent;
// find the larger number of tracks
trackcnt = fid 1->numTracks<fid2->numTracks ? fid2->
numTracks : fid1->numTracks;
// cycle thru the tracks accumulating error and total
comparedtimes for(i=0;i<trackcnt;i++) {
if ((i < fid1->numTracks) && (i <
fid2->numTracks)) {
fidmatcherr += abs(fid1->fuzzlength[i] −
fid2->fuzzlength[i]);
fidmatchtotal += fid1->fuzzlength[i];
} else if (i >= fid2->numTracks) {
fidmatcherr += fid1->fuzzlength[i];
} else if (i >= fid1->numTracks) {
fidmatcherr += fid2->fuzzlength[i];
fidmatchtotal += fid2->fuzzlength[i];
if (fidmatcherr > 0) {
matchpercent = 100 − (((float)fidmatcherr/(float)fid-
matchtotal) *100);
matchpercent = 100;
return matchpercent;
// create global structures for two complete cds with up to 100
fuzzyCDid fidcd2id;
fuzzyCDid fidcdFromDB;
printf (“Test #1 will compare two CDs that are exactly the
same\n\n”);
// since these are in ms, its basically 60000 = 1 minute
cd2id.track[0].lengthMs = 121323;
cd2id.track[1].lengthMs = 234565;
cd2id.track[2].lengthMs = 566437;
cd2id.track[3].lengthMs = 245120;
cd2id.track[4].lengthMs = 20000;
cd2id.track[5].lengthMs = 120386;
cd2id.track[6].lengthMs = 323453;
cd2id.numTracks = 7;
for(i = 1;i<cd2id.numTracks;i++) {
printf (“CD #1: Track = %d length in minutes =
%f\n”, i, (float)cd2id.track[i].length-
Ms/60000.0);
cdFromDB.track[0].lengthMs = 121323;
cdFromDB.track[1].lengthMs = 234565;
cdFromDB.track[2].lengthMs = 566437;
cdFromDB.track[3].lengthMs = 245120;
cdFromDB.track[4].lengthMs = 20000;
cdFromDB.track[5].lengthMs = 120386;
cdFromDB.track[6].lengthMs = 323453;
cdFromDB.numTracks = 7;
printf (“CD #2: Track = %d length in minutes =
%f\n”, i, (float)cdFromDB.track[i].length-
CreateFuzzyId( &fidcdFromDB, &cdFromDB );
matchpercent = FuzzyMatch( &fidcd2id, &fidcdFromDB );
printf (“The cd's matchpercent was computed as=%f”,
matchpercent);
printf (“Test #2 will compare two cd that are nearly the
same\nexcept they have diffent # of tracks \n”);
printf (“CD #1: Track =%d length in minutes =%f\n”,
i, (float)cd2id. track[i].lengthMs/60000.0 );
cdFromDB.numTracks = 6;
for(i = 1;i<cdFromDB.numTracks;i++) {
Ms/60000.0 );
printf (“The cd's matchpercent was computed as=
%f”,matchpercent);
printf (“Test #3 will compare two cd that are not the same\n\n”);
cd2id.track[0].lengthMs = 34213;
cd2id.track[1].lengthMs = 334565;
cd2id.track[2].lengthMs = 231423;
cd2id.track[3].lengthMs = 134122;
cd2id.track[4].lengthMs = 2342;
cd2id.track[5].lengthMs = 3487;
cd2id.track[6].lengthMs = 9976;
Ms\60000.0 );
cdFromDB.track[1].lengthMs = 234565,
printf (“CD #2: Track = %d length in minutes =%f\n”,
i, (float)cdFromDB.track[i].length-
printf (“The cd's matchpercent was computed as =
* EXACT MATCH CD ID
* - 1996 ION
long endMs; // end time in
long lengthMs; // length in Miliseconds
void CreateUniqueId( cdidPtr cid, cdPtr cd )
t += cd->track[i].lengthMs;
n += cd->track[i].beginMs + cd->track[i].endMs;
cid->id[0] = t<<10+cd->numTracks;
cid->id[1] = n;
printf (“Test #1 will compare two cd that are exactly the
// since thes are in ms, its basically 60000 = 1 minute
cd2id.track[0].beginMs = 0;
cd2id.track[1].beginMs = 100001;
cd2id.track[2].beginMs = 231001;
cd2id.track[3].beginMs = 345001;
cd2id.track[4].beginMs = 435001;
cd2id.track[5].beginMs = 460001;
cd2id.track[6].beginMs = 590001;
cd2id.track[0].endMs = 100000;
cd2id.track[1].endMs = 231000;
cd2id.track[2].endMs = 345000;
cd2id.track[3].endMs = 435000;
cd2id.track[4].endMs = 460000;
cd2id.track[5].endMs = 590000;
cd2id.track[6].endMs = 690000;
cd2id.track[0].lengthMs = cd2id.track[0].endMs −
cd2id.track[0].beginMs;
cd2id.track[1].lengthMs = cd2id.track[1].endMs −
cd2id.track[1].beginMs;
cd2id.track[2].lengthMs = cd2id.track[2].endMs −
cd2id.track[2].beginMs;
cd2id.track[3].lengthMs = cd2id.track[3].endMs −
cd2id.track[3].beginMs;
cd2id.track[4].lengthMs = cd2id.track[4].endMs −
cd2id.track[4].beginMs;
cd2id.track[5].lengthMs = cd2id.track[5].endMs −
cd2id.track[5].beginMs;
cd2id.track[6].lengthMs = cd2id.track[6].endMS −
cd2id.track[6].beginMs;
printf (“CD #1: Track = %d length inminutes =
%f\n”, i, (float)cd2id.track[i].lengthMs/60000.0 );
cdFromDB.track[0].beginMS = 0;
cdFromDB.track[1].beginMs = 100001;
cdFromDB.track[2].beginMs = 231001;
cdFromDB.track[3].beginMs = 345001;
cdFromDB.track[4].beginMs = 435001;
cdFromDB.track[5].beginMs = 460001;
cdFromDB.track[6].beginMs = 590001;
cdFromDB.track[0].endMs = 100000;
cdFromDB.track[1].endMs = 231000;
cdFromDB.track[2].endMS = 345000;
cdFromDB.track[3].endMS = 435000;
cdFromDB.track[4].endMS = 460000;
cdFromDB.track[5].endMS = 590000;
cdFromDB.track[6].endMS = 690000;
cdFromDB.track[0].lengthMS = cd2id.track[0].endMs −
cdFromDB.track[1].lengthMs = cd2id.track[1].endMs −
cdFromDB.track[2].lengthMs = cd2id.track[2].endMs −
cdFromDB.track[3].lengthMs = cd2id.track[3].endMs −
cdFromDB.track[4].lengthMs = cd2id.track[4].endMs −
cdFromDB.track[5].lengthMs = cd2id.track[5].endMs −
cdFromDB.track[6].lengthMs = cd2id.track[6].endMs −
for(i=1 ;i<cdFromDB.numTracks;i++) {
printf (“CD #2: Track = %d length inminutes %f\n”,
i, (float)cdFromDB.track[i].lengthMs/60000.0 );
printf( “Unique ID for CD #1 = %d%d\n”, cd2UID.id[0],
cd2UID.id[1]);
printf( “Unique ID for CD #2 = %d%d\n”, cdFromDBUID.id[0],
cdFromDBUID.id[1] );
matchtest = (cd2UID.id[0] == cdFromDBUID.id[0]) &&
(cd2UID.id[1] == cdFromDBUID.id[1]);
printf (“The cd's match if result is non zero matchresult=
%d”,matchtest);
%f\n”, i, (float) cd2id.track[i].lengthMs/60000.0);
printf (“CD #2: Track = %d length inminutes =
%f\n”, i, (float)cdFromDB.track[i].lengthMs/60000.0 );
cd2UID.id[1] );
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U.S. Classification 709/219, 709/250, 709/227
International Classification H04H20/82, G11B27/034, G11B27/11, G11B19/02, G06F17/30, G07F17/16, G11B27/10, G06F13/00
Cooperative Classification G11B2220/2545, G11B2220/2562, G11B27/034, G11B27/11, G11B27/105, G11B2220/213, G11B2220/41, G06F17/30026, G06F17/30899, G11B19/02
European Classification G06F17/30E2A, G11B27/034, G11B19/02, G11B27/10A1, G11B27/11, G06F17/30W9