Patent ID: 8239480

Claim:
A method of conducting a search using a mobile electronic device, the method comprising: playing digital audio content at the mobile electronic device; accepting user input at the mobile electronic device to capture a portion of the digital audio content played at the mobile electronic device; providing search criteria wherein the search criteria is based on the captured portion of the digital audio content and on metadata extracted from the digital audio content wherein providing the search criteria comprises performing recognition on the captured portion of the digital audio content at the mobile electronic device to generate text representing the captured portion of the digital audio content so that the search criteria includes the text and the metadata extracted from the digital audio content; transmitting the search criteria including the text and the metadata extracted from the digital audio content to a remote processing device to initiate an Internet search using the search criteria based on the text representing the captured portion of the digital audio content and on the metadata extracted from the digital audio content so that the search is conducted at the remote processing device; providing a result of the search at the mobile electronic device; and displaying the result of the search at the mobile electronic device.