Patent Document ID: 8554545
Application ID: 13341092
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A method to extract information from media content, the method comprising: sampling a media content signal to generate digital samples; determining a frequency domain representation of the digital samples; determining a first rank of a first frequency in the frequency domain representation; determining a second rank of a second frequency in the frequency domain representation; combining, via a processor, the first rank and the second rank with a set of ranks to create a combined set of ranks; comparing the combined set of ranks to a set of reference sequences including determining a set of distances between the combined set of ranks and one or more of the sequences in the reference set of sequences; determining information represented by the combined set of ranks based on the comparison, wherein determining the information represented by the combined set of ranks includes selecting a sequence in the reference set of sequences that has a smallest distance; and storing the information in a memory device.