Patent Document ID: 9819622
Application ID: 15240095

Base Claim:
1. A computer program product embodied on a non-transitory computer readable medium, comprising code executable by a computer having a processor and a graphical user interface and arranged to communicate with at least one audio file messaging software-as-a-service platform, to cause the computer to carry out the following steps: accessing the at least one audio file messaging software-as-a-service platform; communicating to the at least one audio file messaging software-as-a-service platform a set of first information, the set of first information including a message personalized for an intended recipient; selecting, via the graphical user interface, at least one category of pre-existing recording to be retrieved; retrieving, from the at least one audio messaging software-as-a-service platform, at least one pre-existing recording, said pre-existing recording associated with the at least one selected category; selecting, via the graphical user interface, a desired phrase from within a pre-existing recording; communicating the selection of the desired phrase to the at least one audio file messaging software-as-a-service platform in the form of non-audio data identifying a phrase from an audio recording, the at least one audio file messaging software-as-a-service platform comprising an audio extraction engine that (i) receives the non-audio data identifying the phrase together with an instance of the audio recording, (ii) identifies a portion of the audio recording where the phrase is likely to be found at least in part by mapping each word in the phrase to one and only vocal interval determined to exist in the audio recording, (iii) extracts the portion of the audio recording into a short snippet; and (iv) writes the short snippet into a database; and directing the at least one audio file messaging software-as-a-service platform, via the graphical user interface, to generate, output, and deliver an audio message note for the intended recipient, wherein the music message note is based on the short snippet.

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Claim 12:
12. The computer program product of claim 1 , wherein the sending of messages requires a sender user account, and wherein the sender user account has a user credit balance comprising at least one of earned credits and paid-for credits.