Mobile station and interface adapted for feature extraction from an imput media sample

Abstract From the Canadian patent

A mobile station has a processor and a user input mechanism such as a button that is operable to cause the processor to extract at least one feature from a digital media sample. The feature, such as a spectral centroid is descriptive , of an identity of a content of the media sample. Preferably the same user , input that causes the feature extraction also causes a transmitter to establish a link and to send a message to a network address the message , having a plurality of extracted features from which the digital media sample may not be reconstructed. Where a reply message identifies a media file that matches the media sample, another user input at the same or a different button …