Musical composition authoring environment integrated with synthetic musical instrument

US10339906B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• SMULE, INC. · US

Inventors

• Charles Espeleta · San Francisco, US
• Jeannie Yang · San Francisco, US
• Perry R. Cook · Palo Alto, US
• Oscar Corral · San Francisco, US
• Jonathan D. Moody · Hudson, US
• Ran Xie · San Francisco, US
• Jeffrey C. Smith · Atherton, US
• Dean Schaffer · San Francisco, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Aug 2, 2017
• Grant date: Jul 2, 2019
• Expiry date: Aug 2, 2037

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G10H2240/175
• WIPO field: Other consumer goods
• WIPO sector: Other fields

Abstract

Advanced, but user-friendly composition and editing environments for musical scores may be provided using the types, and in some cases the instances, of computing devices that will in turn consume musical score content so generated. Indeed, by integrating musical composition facilities within synthetic musical instruments that can be widely deployed on hand-held or portable computing devices, a social music network that includes such synthetic musical instruments gains access to a large, and potentially prolific, population of authors, editors and reviewers, as well as to the community-sourced musical scores that they can generate. By curating such content and/or by applying crowd-sourcing or other computational techniques to maintain quality, a social music network may rapidly deploy the new and ever evolving content that its user community desires.