Comments on: Monopolising music recommendation

By: Seth Golub

Seth Golub — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:50:17 +0000

David, yes, you’re reading that wrong. The web page was last modified in 2002, but my thesis was first published on that page in September 2000. Also potentially relevant is Wold, et al, 1996. http://www.musclefish.com/ieeemm96/paper.html

By: David

David — Sun, 03 May 2009 14:58:13 +0000

Captain Sparrow – You’re not addressing the issue. The patent in question has already been granted. Do you have specific information you can put forth that will / would overturn the grated patent in this field?

By: David

David — Sun, 03 May 2009 14:43:21 +0000

Wendell, can you substantiate that or get someone from MusicIP to post publicly available evidence of that? My understanding is that the substantiation has to have been made public before mid 2001 for it to be valid.

Seth, it looks like you did not publics your work until 2002. Am I reading that wrong?

By: Seth Golub

Seth Golub — Sat, 02 May 2009 19:41:59 +0000

I used almost exactly that same feature set for genre classification in my master’s thesis, published on my site in 2000 http://www.sethoscope.net/aimsc/ . I have zero signal processing background, so it’d be fair to say those features would have been obvious to an actual practitioner back then. George Tzanetakis was doing similar (and more) things with Marysas at the same time.

By: Captain Sparrow

Captain Sparrow — Sat, 02 May 2009 16:05:53 +0000

I will create a device that will analyze the sound waves travelling the atmosphere on earth the exact same way human ears do and patent this and then anyone being caugh listening or hearing anything will be infringing on my IP; I will suit them!

Get a grip; you cannot put a patent on what a process does, but only on how it does it.

By: Wendell

Wendell — Sat, 02 May 2009 14:25:31 +0000

MusicIP was doing fairly similar stuff at least as early as December 1999.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 01 May 2009 16:40:58 +0000

http://isen.com/blog/2009/04/broadband-without-internet-ain-worth.html

Interesting post about broadband, Internet and Net Neutrality. Via dslreports.