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Purpose of this Presentation
Consider Acquisition of Patent RightsExplore A Mutually Beneficial Business
Opportunity
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We are the originators of modern streaming We possess some very valuable IP We understand patents and rights
enforcement We have one patent application just allowed
and others pending for fingerprinting technologies
A deal with Surfer will give the opportunity to gain a proprietary position and shut out competitors
Surfer is Sophisticated in IP
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How Does SurferNETWORK’s Business and the Acoustic Fingerprinting Business
Relate?
SurferNETWORK connects directly to radio stations
at the studio
Half of Shazam or SoundHound
users are listening to
broadcast radio
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QUICK ANSWER
We Provide the Fingerprinter With a Direct Connection to Radio Stations
How Does SurferNETWORK’s Technology Improve the Acoustic Fingerprinting
Business?
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What’s In It For The Fingerprinter
What’s In It For Us
Increased Efficiency More Rapid & Accurate Song Recognition Lower Costs Potential New Business Opportunity IP Protection from Competitors
More Accurate Artist & Title Presentation to Listeners Better Strategic Position in Our Industry Potential New Business Opportunity IP Protection from Competitors
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How the Streaming Business Works
Radio Stationone copy of audio stream
plus metadata
DistributionServer
audio
Audience
encodingcomputer
metadata
GREEN: We own
or control
broadcast automation system
audio plusrich media content
(lyrics, photos, album info…)
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Artist & Title Start time (implicit or explicit) Duration (and most stations also include info on
Commercials)
Metadata Includes:
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Much of Artist & Title is Inaccurate(which we manually repair)
No Artist & Title for Most Syndicated Content(min. of 125 syndicators in the U.S.)Can’t present rich media content
(Caused us to initiate R&D program on fingerprinting)
And, many radio stations can’t transmit RDS because their song metadata is garbage
Our Issues:
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Example of Bad A&T Metadata
(and this many more)
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Objective is to reduce the number of deep dips into the database (millions of rows)
Circumstance: two users in the same area request recognition of the same song from the same radio station – shouldn’t that be easy?
But Fingerprinter doesn’t know what any radio station is currently playing
Must use elaborate procedure to deduce the identity of the broadcaster on most recognition requests
See US Patent Application 2011/0099197 by Wang (Shazam) US Patent Application 13/480,445 by Master (SoundHound) US Patent 8,453,170 by Briggs (BMI) US Patent 8,639,178 by Anniballi (Clear Channel)
Fingerprinter Issue to Solve
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What We Could Do For Fingerprinter(non-syndication)
Radio Stationone copy of audio stream
plus metadata
DistributionServer
audio
Audience
encodingcomputer
metadata
GREEN: We own
or control
broadcast automation system
audio plusrich media content
(lyrics, photos, album info…)
metadata and/or audiofor everyaudio event
station providesID
correctedA&T returned
Fingerprinter
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Avg. 25 music stations in each of top 100-200 Metro/DMA listening areas
Each station playlist has about 250 unique songs
Playlist changes slowly Station plays the 250 songs 7500 times/mo.
1. Radio Station Operation & How It Would Work for
Fingerprinter
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Station identifies itself, so you know listening area
You compile a playlist for each station You cross-ref songs in playlist with corrected
version of A&T (song ID) Instantaneous with start of play, you receive
metadata (or a fingerprint, or a snippet of audio)You know the start timeYou know the station’s version of A&TYou know the duration
Lookup the station’s A&T in the playlist
2. Radio Station Operation & How It Would Work for
Fingerprinter
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User requests song recognition You know listening area of user You know the 25 stations in that listening
area You know the 25 songs being played by
those stations You know the start time of each song and the
time expired since the start You know how many seconds into each song
to compare the fingerprint
3. Radio Station Operation & How It Would Work for
Fingerprinter
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4. Only Need To Compare A Small Part of Each Song
song 1
song 2
song 3
current time
compare fingerprint here
Showing Start of Each Song
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SignificanceFor half of all song recognition requests
you only need to analyze a few milliseconds of audio for an average of
12.5 songsComputational
Resources
Accuracy Efficiency
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What We Could Do For Fingerprinter
Radio Stationone copy of audio stream
plus metadata
DistributionServer
audio
Audience
encodingcomputer
metadata
GREEN: We own
or control
broadcast automation system
audio plusrich media content
(lyrics, photos, album info…)
continuous audio or fingerprint duringsyndication
station providesID
correctedA&T returned
( for syndication)
Fingerprinter
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We have a Customer Control Panel Stations input their syndication schedule We could provide that to Fingerprinter You will know when to use each technique During syndication you need to fingerprint &
analyze each song, just as for a user But, you will compile a syndication playlist for
each syndicator So, your identification of songs being played
will be quick, just compare against the playlist
How It Would Work for Syndication
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Surfer’s Business Opportunity
Song IDsoftware
We provide the Song ID software to our existing customers as part of our service
And to other radio stations around the world for a fee
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What’s In It for the Radio Station?
audio segment sent to server
return Artist & Title
• They get brand recognition
Shazam example
and Station ID
“You are listening to
WXYZ 101.5 FM”
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Possible New Business Opportunity
Low Cost Auditing Service for Radio Stations and Advertisers
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Media Monitors, LLC., ASCAP, BMI operate acoustic fingerprinting services to monitor and audit radio stations to count song and advertising playsASCAP & BMI represent copyright holdersBMI already has a deal with Shazam for acoustic
fingerprinting Nielsen provides services that include
obtaining Artist & Title to present on a radio station’s website or media playerThey make money by selling songs
Current Operation
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Ex. Media Monitors, LLC Monitors 2500 stationshas physical plant in 200 listening areasEach facility has radio receivers and computers,
one dedicated radio receiver per stationSends acoustic fingerprint to datacenter for
analysis
Costly to Operate
Be the Data Provider for These Organizations
Radio Station
Song IDsoftware metadata or acoustic
snippet
Internet
fingerprintDB
server
audioReports
Web pagesMedia players
No Capital Equipment Just a piece of software
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SUMMARY
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Brand Recognition for Listeners using Fingerprinting App
Accurate Artist & Title Even for Syndicated Music Can Utilize RDS/HD to Present Artist & Title
on Dashboard
Benefits to Radio Stations
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Fingerprinting is a Turbulent Market
SoundHound
Spotify does deal with SoundHound, Purchases The Echo Nest
Googleenters Music Recognition
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1. Lower Costs Simplified Processing – right now must use
elaborate procedure to deduce the identity of the broadcaster on most recognition requests
2. New Business Opportunities3. Lock in a Protected Market Position with
Patent Protected IP
Benefits to Fingerprinter
Why let a competitor?
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This presentation does not incorporate Group D: Companionship Between a Car Radio
Receiver and a Smartphone to Provide Artist & Title to the Head Unit for Stations Not Transmitting A&T
Group E: An Improved Method for an Acoustic Fingerprinting Service Provider to Deliver Advertising Having Special Promotions
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