Patent ID: 7343553

Claim:
A method implemented on a network for identifying the name of a song input by a first user, the network including at least a client machine and a host server connected to the Internet, the method comprising the steps of: accessing the host server by the first user at the client machine; automatically receiving identification information of the first user from a cookie stored on the client machine; sending a request, by the first user, to enter a voice clip of a portion of the song to the host sever; transmitting a form from the host server to the client machine in response to the request by the client machine, wherein the form comprises embedded components which execute on the client machine; inputting, though interaction with the form, the voice clip of a portion of the song into a microphone connected to the client machine; providing the voice clip to the host server; selectively providing, though interaction with the form, further information relating to the song to the host server; making the voice clip and the information available to multiple human visitors to the host server; permitting the multiple human visitors to post an identification of the song to the host server from respective machines connected to the network, the identification of the song comprising at least one of the name of the song and an artist name; searching the posted identifications for a match of the identity of at least one of the song name and the artist name among a predetermined plurality of the identifications posted by the visitors; and in the event that a match was determined in the searching step, transmitting to the client machine an electronic notification from the host server that the song in the voice clip has been identified, wherein the electronic notification being received at the client machine in accordance with the first user identification information, wherein the electronic notification includes a hypertext link to a predetermined page constructed by the host server, and wherein the electronic notification includes at least one of the name of the song and the artist.