US Patent Issued to GRACENOTE on Nov. 11 for "Methods and apparatus to identify media based on historical data" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,759, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to GRACENOTE INC. (New York).

"Methods and apparatus to identify media based on historical data" was invented by Markus Kurt Cremer (Orinda, Calif.) and Todd Hodges (Oakland, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to identify media based on historical data. An example method includes: comparing (a) a pitch shifted fingerprint, (b) a time shifted fingerprint, or (c) a resampled fingerprint to a reference fingerprint; in response to a match between any of (a) the pitch shifted fingerprint, (b) the time shifted fingerprint, or (c) t...