System and method for engaging a person in the presence of ambient audio

摘要

A computerized method for engaging a user of a mobile computer system, The mobile computer system may be connectible to a server over a wide area network. An audio signal of ambient audio is autonomously sampled in the vicinity of the mobile computer system to capture one or more audio samples of the audio signal. The multiple samples of the audio signal are autonomously sampled without requiring any interaction from the user, thus avoiding an input from the user to capture each of the samples. The audio sample may be processed to extract an audio signature of the audio sample. The audio signature may be compared with multiple previously stored reference audio signatures. Upon matching the audio signature with at least one reference audio signature a matched reference audio signature may be produced.

主权项

1. A computer-implemented method, comprising:
obtaining, using at least one processor, first audio data associated with a first device, the first audio data including a first time stamp and at least one of (i) a sample of a first audio signal captured by the first device at the first time stamp or (ii) a first audio signature representative of the first audio signal sample; determining, using the at least one processor, whether the first audio signature corresponds to a second audio signature, the second audio signature being representative of a sample of a second audio signal captured by a second device at a second time stamp; and when the first audio signature is determined to correspond to the second audio signature, and when the second time stamp falls within a predetermined time period of the first time stamp, providing, using the at least one processor, and to the second device, first information advising at least a user of a second device of the determined correspondence between the first and second audio signatures.