Patent ID: 7853670

Claim:
A method comprising: receiving, at a computing device, table of contents information from at least one of a plurality of user devices via a network; receiving, at the computing device, at least one songprint identifier derived from digitized content from at least one of the user devices; and determining, via the computing device, whether to provide information via the network authorizing play of the digitized content on at least one of the user devices based upon information stored in a verification database, the received table of contents information and the at least one received songprint identifier, wherein said determining further comprises: verifying whether the received at least one songprint identifier correlates with a master songprint identifier stored in the verification database; and upon the received at least one songprint identifier failing to correlate with the master songprint identifier to within a specified limit, constructing a verification response message indicating that the digitized content is not found in the verification database.