p2pnet.net News:- Bill and the Boyz have patented a way to turn you into a groover.

"If you look at the digital content market in general, categorization and search capabilities are in the formative stages at this point. To make more effective digital content services, search technologies need to be much deeper. That’s obviously what Microsoft is toying with right now – how do you make those more effective to more consumers?"

The paragraph above comes from an IDG News Service story quoting Yankee Group analyst Patrick Mahoney, and the subject is a patent granted to Microsoft this week that, “hints at the invention of new technology for personalizing searches for online media, particularly music titles”.

The patent is for an invention that, “provides a system and methods for training a trainee to analyze media, such as music, in order to recognize and assess the fundamental properties of any piece of media, such as a song or a segment of a song," says the patent documentation.

It was originally filed in 2001 by Geoffrey R. Stanfield and Eric Bassman in Seattle, says IDG. "The process of the present invention includes an initial tutorial and a double grooving process."

‘Double grooving’ would use experts who’ve “defined a set of classification terms for fundamental properties of music to train others to recognize those properties, and match results of the trainees’ assessments with those of experts within ‘a high degree of tolerance’," says the story.

"When a high enough degree of cross-listening consensus is reached, the new listener becomes a groover and can classify new songs or segments of songs," according to the patent.”

Um. Yes.

Coincidentally (?), Bill and the Boyz are, “waging a battle with a host of companies, including Apple Computer, to sell digital music online,” IDG points out.

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See:-
IDG News Service – Microsoft Gets Its Groove On With New Patent, July 7, 2005

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