ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,640,162, issued on May 26, was assigned to Gracenote Inc. (Emeryville, Calif.).
"System and method for podcast repetitive content detection" was invented by Amanmeet Garg (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Aneesh Vartakavi (Emeryville, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one aspect, a method includes detecting a fingerprint match between query fingerprint data representing at least one audio segment within podcast content and reference fingerprint data representing known repetitive content within other podcast content, detecting a feature match between a set of audio features across multiple time-windows of the podcast content, and detecting a ...