[Swordmaker]

Another absurd patent issued to a guy who hasn't a clue as to how the technology would work that is now being used to sue those who actually have a product... PING!

Apple is dragged into the suit because Shazam! is available as a FREE App on the iPhone.

I've included the patent in the first comment. See if you can squeeze what the patent claims to do into what Shazam! actually does.

Another iSuit Ping!

If you want on or off the Mac Ping List, Freepmail me.

[bamahead]

Sigh. Another patent troll. These people are the worst kind of scum.

[ccmay]

Shazam doesn’t use or need any hidden broadcast tones to identify music. Nor does it identify the radio station. It just hashes a sort of digital fingerprint or signature of music from any source and compares it with a known library of such signatures. It’s a damn clever and useful application and I’d hate to see it shut down by a patent troll.