Patent ID: 8856267

Claim:
A method of communicating audio through the Internet, comprising the steps of: capturing intermittent audio content as it occurs in real time from a scanning radio receiver that receives intermittent radio broadcasts containing audio content, by discriminating said intermittent radio broadcasts using a radio squelch circuit, thereby determining the start and end of plural audio content segments, by a first network terminal; forming plural individual audio files corresponding to each of said plural audio content segments; storing at least a first one of said plural individual audio files at a network addressable location; sending a directory packet including an Internet URL for said network addressable location of said at least a first one of said plural individual audio files, but that does not include said at least one of said plural individual audio files, to a second network terminal, and requesting said at least one of said plural individual audio files through the Internet by said second network terminal according to said Internet URL.