Patent ID: 7877438

Claim:
A new media identification system comprising: at least one analysis module, including a first processor and a first memory, for receiving transmission of signals from at least one source, the signals including data from a portion of a master recording, dividing said data into a plurality of segments, generating a segment representation of each of the plurality of segments, and transmitting said segment representation to an identification server; and at least one identification server, including a second processor and a second memory, for receiving said segment representation from said at least one analysis module, comparing said segment representation to a plurality of reference segment representations, determining that said segment representation is not identified, and adding said segment representation to a list for holding a plurality of unidentified segment representations; wherein one of said at least one analysis module and said identification server is configured to compare segment representations of unidentified segments to segment representations of other unidentified segments, wherein the comparison comprises: dividing a first unidentified segment representation into first sub-segments and a second unidentified segment representation into second sub-segments; comparing the first sub-segments to the second sub-segments; identifying a first subset of the first sub-segments that matches a second subset of the second sub-segments, wherein the first subset is a sequential run of the first sub-segments and the second subset is a sequential run of the second sub-segments; and determining that the first subset and the second subset are associated with a performance of the same master recording; wherein one of said at least one analysis module and said identification server is configured to create a representation of a super segment by combining the sequential run of sub-segments of at least one of the first subset or the second subset.