Patent ID: 8355667

Claim:
An apparatus comprising: a communications unit configured to receive a message from a mobile communications device operated by a perceiver of audio content disseminated by a broadcaster with which the perceiver is in unilateral communication, the message including time information associated with the audio content and source information for the audio content, wherein said communications unit is further configured to receive messages from multiple perceivers of respective audio content disseminated by one or more broadcasters with which the perceivers are in respective unilateral communication, and wherein the messages further include perceiver identification information; a memory; and a processing device in communication with said communications unit, said memory, at least one broadcaster database, and at least one content provider database, said processing device configured to obtain the time, source, and perceiver identification information included in each message, use the time and source information to obtain identification of the audio content from the broadcaster database, and instruct a content provider maintaining the content provider database to transmit a copy of the audio content to a location specified by pre-determined settings of a user, wherein the pre-determined settings of the user are stored in said memory; wherein the at least one broadcaster database includes multiple broadcaster databases, and said processing device is configured to use the source information to identify an associated broadcaster database from the multiple broadcaster databases that is associated with the audio content and to use at least one of the time or source information to obtain identification of the audio content from the associated broadcaster database; wherein the apparatus is operated by a mobile network provider and is communicatively disposed between the mobile communications device and the content provider database.