Shazam Investments Assigned Patent

Shazam Investments Ltd., London, Great Britain, has been assigned a patent (10,158,907) developed by Wang, Avery, Palo Alto, CA, and Szabo, Maxwell Leslie, San Francisco, CA, for “systems and methods for performing playout of multiple media recordings based on a matching segment among the recordings.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”An example method for performing playout of multiple media recordings includes receiving a plurality of media recordings, indexing the plurality of media recordings for storage into a database, dividing each of the plurality of media recordings into multiple segments, and for each segment of each media recording, (i) comparing the segment with the indexed plurality of media recordings stored in the database to determine one or more matches to the segment, and, (ii) determining a relative time offset of the segment within each matched media recording. Following, the method includes performing playout of a representation of the plurality of media recordings based on the relative time offset of each matched segment.”

The patent application was filed on October 10, 2017 (15/729,104).