Patent ID: 7987280

Claim:
A method for a media agent to monitor multiple broadcast transmissions, each broadcast transmission composed of streaming audio data containing media content, comprising: identifying the broadcast transmission to be monitored; establishing connections with the identified broadcast transmissions identifying, for each connected broadcast transmission, at least one characteristic of the media content associated with the connected broadcast transmission through a statistical pattern recognition scheme, without the need for the media content to include a unique identifier that is derived from, inserted or embedded in the media content, wherein the statistical pattern recognition scheme is accomplished through an historical analysis of the media content associated with the connected broadcast transmission; maintaining the association between the identified at least one characteristic of the media content and the connected broadcast transmission; receiving a selection of one of the at least one characteristic of the media content from among all the at least one characteristic of the media contents; and causing a user to receive the broadcast transmission associated with the selected at least one characteristic of the media content.