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Originally Posted by sayam
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In the patent, the company described it's application as relating "to a music identification/purchasing system, specifically to a method for marking the time and the name of the radio station in portable device such as a key holder, watch, cellular phone, beeper or the like which will allow the user to learn via internet or regular telephone the name of the song, artist and/or music company by matching the stored data with broadcast archive."
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So, they hold the patent to Sony's emarker, because that's EXACTLY how it worked.
Sony eMarker: How a Clever System Works
Shazam, on the other hand, can ID music from any source. Hear something coming out of the speaker in the doctor's office? It's not going to come up on a database of what was being played on local radio.
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Originally Posted by sayam
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This is quite similar to the core functionality of Shazam app that recognizes music being played from any source such as a radio, audio player etc, locates it in it's database and allows you to "tag" it to get certain information about the track like lyrics, related youtube videos, track review and much more, and even provides iTunes and Amazon link to purchase it.
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That's not at all the same. At issue here is the mobile identification technology, which has nothing to do with comparing time codes to a database of what was playing on the air at that moment. Everything else is the same related info as iTunes or Windows Media Player would give you.