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`INVENTORS: LAWSON A. WOOD , ARLINGTON, VA
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`TITLE:
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`METHOD FOR DISTRIBUTING MUSIC
`BY PROVIDING PERSONALIZED
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`09/438,469
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`1999-11-12
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`METHOD FOR DISTRIBUTING MUSIC BY PROVIDING
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`Transaction History
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`Transaction Description
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`11/18/1999 Initial Exam Team nn
`12/6/1999 IFW Scan & PACR Auto Security Review
`12/10/1999 Application Dispatched from OIPE
`5/25/2000 Case Docketed to Examiner in GAU
`10/6/2000 Case Docketed to Examiner in GAU
`8/21/2001 Information Disclosure Statement (IDS) Filed
`8/21/2001 Information Disclosure Statement (IDS) Filed
`11/27/2001 Case Docketed to Examiner in GAU
`5/10/2002 Correspondence Address Change
`6/17/2002 Case Docketed to Examiner in GAU
`9/13/2002 Non-Final Rejection
`9/17/2002 Mail Non-Final Rejection
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`2/13/2003 Mail Final Rejection (PTOL - 326)
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`5/21/2003 Examiner Interview Summary Record (PTOL - 413)
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`5/30/2003 Mail Notice of Allowance
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`7/7/2003 Workflow - File Sent to Contractor
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`((((705/26 or 705/27 or 705/57) or (704/246) or (704/231 ) or
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`with (clip or sample or segment or portion or part or snippet)
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`sample) with recogni$7) and (music$2 or song or vocal$7) and
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`) or (379/52)).CCLS.) and (@AD<19991112))) and (((((705/26
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`(379/406.03) or (379/406.02) or (379/338) or (379/88.01) or
`(379/52)).CCLS.) and (@AD<19991112)) and (pattern or
`sample) with recogni$7)
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`Time stamp
`2003/05/29 11:34
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`("6057884") or ("5734719") or ("5794217") or ("5874686") or
`("5918213") or ("5694334") or ("5613060") or
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`(455/550) or (455/73) or (379/907) or (379/406.03) or
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`(455/550) or (455/73) or (379/907) or (379/406.03) or.
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`(455/550) or (455/73) or (379/907) or (379/406.03) or.
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`("5745556") or ("6057884") or ("5734719")).PN.
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`31255-152013
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`PATENT APPLICATION SERIAL NO.
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`U.S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
`PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
`FEE RECORD SHEET
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`11/24/1999 NVILLARI 00000052 09438469
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`01 FC:201
`02 FC:203
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`380.00 OP
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`Washington, D.C. 20005-3917
`(202) 962-4800, Fax (202) 962-8300
`www.venable.com
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`ATTORNEYS
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`AT LAW
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`NovemLber 12, 1999
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`Honorable Assistant Commissioner
`for Patents
`Washington, D.C. 20231
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`ATTENTION: BOX PATENT APPLICATIONS
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`OFFICES IN
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`WASHINGTON, D.C.
`MARYLAND
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`Attorney Docket No. 31255-152013
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`Re: New Patent Application For:
`"METHOD FOR RECOGNIZING AND DISTRIBUTING MUSIC"
`Inventor: Lawson A. WOOD
`
`Sir:
`
`Attached hereto is an application for U.S. Letters Patent, which includes:
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`[X]
`[X]
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`Specification, Abstract, and Claims (30 pages).
`Drawings (6 Sheets, Figs. 1-9).
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`Also attached are:
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`[X]
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`Declaration and Power of Attorney
`Verified Statement (Declaration) Claiming Small Entity Status
`Independent Inventor.
`A Check in the amount of $398.00 (See Formula Below).
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`Basic Filing Fee (small entity) .......
`Additional Fees:
`Total number of claims in excess of 20: 2 x $19.00 ................
`Number of independent claims in excess of 3: 0 x $ 41.00 .....
`Multiple dependent claims: 0 x $135.00 ..............................
`TOTAL FEE DUE
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`$380.00
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`18.00
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`$398.00
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`Should the filing fee be missing, or should a greater or lesser fee be required, please
`charge or credit Deposit Account No. 22-0261, and notify the undersigned accordingly.
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`Respectfully submitted,
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`/ ,
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`L. Allen Wood (The Applicant)
`Registration No. 28,134
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`APPLICATION FOR UNITED STATES LETTER PATENT
`
`INVENTOR:
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`Lawson A. Wood
`
`TITLE:
`
`METHOD FOR RECOGNIZING AND
`DISTRIBUTING MUSIC
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`ATTORNEYS AND CORRESPONDENCE ADDRESS:
`
`VENABLE, BAETJER, HOWARD & CIVILETTI
`P.O. Box 34385
`Washington, D.C. 20043-9998
`Telephone: 202-414-4000
`Telefax:
`202-414-4040
`
`ATTORNEY REFERENCE: 31255-152013
`
`(31255-152013)
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`Google Ex. 1016
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`BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
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`The present application is directed to a method for recognizing and distributing music,
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`and more particularly to a method for recognizing a musical composition from a specimen
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`that is hummed, sung, or otherwise vocalized by a customer, and for permitting a customer to
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`preview a musical composition before distributing the composition to the customer over the
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`internet.
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`The internet (and particularly the worldwide web) is becoming an important vehicle
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`for distributing music, usually in encoded form. Web sites currently (1999) exist that
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`distribute music in an encoded format known as "MP3." So-called "juke box" programs are
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`also available which permit MP3. files that have been downloaded over the internet to be
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`stored and played on audio systems. Some authorities speculate that distribution of music
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`over the internet will eventually replace conventional record shops.
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`Some customers who desire to purchase a recording at a record shop may be familiar
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`with the music itself, but may not be sure of the singer or group that produced the music, or
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`possibly the title of the relevant song or album. In a music shop, such a customer is able to
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`question a shopkeeper, and possibly hum a few bars of the musical composition for the
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`shopkeeper to attempt to identify. Alternatively, music stores frequently permit patrons to
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`sample recordings before buying them, so a customer who is not sure which recording he or
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`she would like to purchase may select a few possible recordings and listen to them until the
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`desired recording is located. There is no harm in permitting a customer to listen to as much of
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`a recording as the customer would like, since the customer cannot legally take a recording
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`from the shop without paying for it.
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`Speech recognition technology is highly developed. Typically, features are extracted
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`from spoken words and then normalized to provide patterns that are compared to patterns in a
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`pattern library. When a pattern derived from a spoken word matches a pattern in the library
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`sufficiently, a phoneme of the spoken word has been found. The features that are extracted
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`from the spoken words may identify a range of frequencies that are present during extremely
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`brief slices of time and the power at those frequencies. Sophisticated mathematical operations
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`are then performed on the extracted features in order to generate the patterns for pattern
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`matching.
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`SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
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`An object of the invention is to facilitate distribution of music over the internet by
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`permitting customers or other people to preview (perhaps "pre-listen" would be more
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`accurate, but Applicant prefers to stick with English words) music before downloading it.
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`Another object is to permit people to preview music in a manner that permits them to
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`identify a musical composition for which they are searching without providing a usable
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`substitute for the desired composition.
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`A further object is to provide techniques for corrupting music so that it can be used for
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`purpose of identification but not enjoyment.
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`Yet another object is to provide a method for recognizing a musical composition that
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`is hummed, sung, chanted, or otherwise vocalized by a customer. The specimen may be sent
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`via the internet or telephone to a remote
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`location for analysis and pattern matching.
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`Alternatively, if a customer's home computer is suitably equipped, the home computer can be
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`used to generate a pattern locally from the customer's specimen, and the pattern alone may be
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`transmitted via the internet to a remote location for pattern matching. The music recognition
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`can also be executed at record shops, without sending either the specimen of the customer's
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`vocalization or a pattern derived from the specimen to a remote location.
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`In accordance with one aspect of the invention, a method for distributing music
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`includes the steps of sending information to identify a musical composition in writing to a
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`customer or other person over the internet.
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`If the customer sends a request for an audio
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`preview of the composition that is identified in writing, a corrupted version of some or all of
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`this musical composition is sent to the customer over the internet.
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`If the customer then
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`requests the musical composition without corruption, it is sent to the customer.
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`The corrupted version of the musical composition that is sent to the customer for
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`purposes of identification may. include a short-duration snippet of the composition or a
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`sequence of isolated snippets from the composition, possibly with superimposed noise.
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`In accordance with another aspect of the invention, a musical composition can be
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`recognized by extracting features from a specimen that has been vocalized by a person,
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`generating a pattern from the extracted features, comparing this pattern with patterns in a
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`pattern library, and identifying at least one musical composition as a result of this comparison.
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`The pattern preferably includes a pitch sequence and/or a duration sequence. The pitch
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`sequence may identify how many half tones up or down exist between a current note of the
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`specimen and the previous note. The duration sequence may indicate the duration of one note
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`with respect to a predetermined tempo.
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`BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS:
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`Figure