System for embedding electronic messages and documents with automatically-composed music user-specified by emotion and style descriptors

Abstract

An automated music composition and generation system allowing uses to create and deliver electronic messages and documents such as text, SMS and email, augmented with automatically-composed music generated using user-selected music emotion and style descriptors. The automated music composition and generation system includes an automated music composition and generation engine operably connected to a system user interface, and the infrastructure of the Internet. Mobile and desktop client machines provide text, SMS and/or email services supported on the Internet. Each client machine has a text application, SMS application and/or email application that is augmented by the addition of automatically-composed music by users using the automated music composition and generation engine. By selecting and providing musical emotion and style descriptor icons to the engine, music is automatically composed, generated, and embedded in text, SMS and/or email messages for delivery to other client machines over the infrastructure of the Internet.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . An Internet-based automated music composition and generation system allowing uses to create and deliver text, SMS and email messages augmented with automatically composed music generated using user-selected music emotion and style descriptors, said Internet-based automated music composition and generation system comprising:
 an automated music composition and generation engine operably connected to a system user interface, and the infrastructure of the Internet; and   plurality of mobile and desktop client machines providing text, SMS and email services supported on the Internet;   wherein each said client machine has a text application, SMS application and email application that can be augmented by the addition of automatically composed music by users using said automated music composition and generation engine, by selecting musical emotion descriptor icons, and musical style descriptor icons, that are provided to said automated music composition and generation engine to generate automatically composed music that is embedded in text, SMS and/or email messages for delivery to other client machines over the infrastructure of the Internet, to experience text, SMS and email messages augmented with said embedded automatically composed music.   
     
     
         2 . The Internet-based automated music composition and generation system of  claim 1 , wherein said mobile client machines are selected from the group consisting of Internet-enabled smartphones and tablet computers having a touch-screen interface, a memory architecture, a central processor and interface circuitry and network adapters to support various communication protocols. 
     
     
         3 . The Internet-based automated music composition and generation system of  claim 1 , wherein a first client application is running on each said client machine and providing the system user with a virtual keyboard supporting the creation of a text or SMS message, and the creation and insertion of a piece of automatically-composed music created therein, by selecting linguistic and/or graphical-icon based emotion descriptors and style-descriptors, from a first menu screen supported by said first client application. 
     
     
         4 . The Internet-based automated music composition and generation system of  claim 1 , wherein a second client application is running on each said client machine and providing the system user with a virtual keyboard supporting the creation of an email document, and the creation and embedding of a piece of automatically-composed music therein, created by the user selecting linguistic and/or graphical-icon based emotion descriptors, and style-type descriptors from a second menu screen supported by said second client application. 
     
     
         5 . The Internet-based automated music composition and generation system of  claim 1 , wherein said client machine is realized as mobile computing machine having a touch-screen interface, a memory architecture, a processor, interface circuitry and network adapters to support various communication protocols; and wherein a client application running on said mobile computing machine provides the user with a virtual keyboard supporting the creation of a Microsoft Word, PDF, or image (e.g. jpg or tiff) document, and the creation and insertion of a piece of automatically-composed music created by the system user selecting linguistic and/or graphical-icon based music emotion descriptors and music style-descriptors, from a menu screen supported by said client application. 
     
     
         6 . The Internet-based automated music composition and generation system of  claim 1 , wherein said client machine is realized as mobile computing machine having a touch-screen interface, a memory architecture, a central processor, graphics processor, interface circuitry, network adapters to support various communication protocols; and wherein a second client application is running that provides the user with a virtual keyboard supporting the creation of a web-based (i.e. html) document, and the creation and insertion of a piece of automatically-composed music created by selecting linguistic and/or graphical-icon based emotion descriptors, and style-descriptors, from a menu screen supported by said second client application, so that the music piece can be delivered to a remote client and experienced using a conventional web-browser operating on the embedded URL, from which the embedded music piece is being served by way of said web, application and database servers. 
     
     
         7 . An automated music composition and generation system comprising:
 an Internet-based automated music composition and generation platform deployed so mobile and desktop client machines, using text, SMS and email services supported on the Internet are augmented by the addition of composed music by users using an automated music composition and generation engine, and graphical user interfaces supported by the client machines while creating text, SMS and/or email messages so that the users can easily select graphic and/or linguistic based emotion and style descriptors for use in generating compose music pieces for such text, SMS and email messages.   
     
     
         8 . A system network for generating and delivering automatically composed pieces of music, comprising:
 an automated music composition and generation engine operably connected to the infrastructure of the Internet, for automatically composing and generating music based on linguistic or icon-based musical experience descriptors;   a plurality of communication, application and database servers operably connected to said automated music composition and generation engine and the infrastructure of the Internet, so that music pieces automatically composed and generated by said automated music composition and generation engine can be embedded in and played from documents; and   a plurality of Web-enabled mobile client machines operably connected to the infrastructure of the Internet for displaying documents embedded with music pieces automatically composed and generated by said automated music composition and generation engine;   wherein each said mobile client machine comprises a computing platform having a touch-screen interface, a memory architecture, a central processor, and a wireless network adapter supporting wireless communication protocols; and   wherein said client machine includes an application which, when running, provides the user with a virtual keyboard supporting the creation and insertion of a piece of composed music created by selecting linguistic and/or graphical-icon based emotion descriptors, and style-descriptors, from a menu screen, so that the music piece can be embedded in a document that is delivered to a remote client machine and experienced by another system user.   
     
     
         9 . An Internet-based automated music composition and generation system comprising:
 an automated music composition and generation engine operably connected to the infrastructure of the Internet, for automatically composing and generating music based on linguistic or icon-based musical experience descriptors;   a plurality of communication, application and database servers operably connected to said automated music composition and generation engine and the infrastructure of the Internet, so that music pieces automatically composed and generated by said automated music composition and generation engine can be embedded in and played from documents; and   wherein said client machine includes an application which, when running, provides the user with a virtual keyboard supporting (i) creating a piece of composed music created by selecting linguistic and/or graphical-icon based emotion descriptors and style-descriptors, from a menu screen, and (ii) embedding the piece of automatically-composed music into a text, SMS and email document or message so that said text, SMS and email document or message, with the embedded piece of music, can be delivered to a remote client machine and experienced by another system user.   
     
     
         10 . An automated music composition and generation process using a Web-based system supporting the use of automated virtual-instrument music synthesis driven by linguistic and/or graphical icon based musical experience descriptors so to automatically and instantly create musically-scored text, SMS, email, PDF, Word and/or html documents, said automated music composition and generation process comprises:
 (a) a system user accesses an automated music composition and generation system, and then selects a text, SMS or email message or Word, PDF or HTML document to be scored (e.g. augmented) with music generated by the automated music composition and generation system;   (ii) the system user then provides linguistic-based and/or icon-based musical experience descriptors to the automated music composition and generation system;   (iii) the system user initiates the automated music composition and generation system to compose and generate music based on inputted musical descriptors scored on selected messages or documents;   (iv) the system user accepts composed and generated music produced for the message or document, or rejects the music and provides feedback to the system, including providing different musical experience descriptors and a request to re-compose music based on the updated musical experience descriptor inputs; and   (v) the system combines the accepted composed music with the message or document, so as to create a new file for distribution and display.   
     
     
         11 . An automated music composition and generation process driven by linguistic and/or graphical icon based musical experience descriptors so as to create musically-scored text, SMS, email, PDF, Word and/or html documents, said automated music composition and generation process comprising:
 (a) the system user accessing said automated music composition and generation engine;   (b) selecting a text, SMS or email message or Word, PDF or HTML document to be scored with music generated by said automated music composition and generation engine;   (ii) the system user then provides linguistic-based and/or icon-based musical experience descriptors to said automated music composition and generation engine;   (iii) the system user initiates said automated music composition and generation engine to compose and generate music based on inputted musical descriptors scored on selected messages or documents;   (iv) the system user accepts composed and generated music produced for the message or document, or rejects the music and provides feedback to said automated music composition and generation engine, including providing different musical experience descriptors and a request to re-compose music based on the updated musical experience descriptor inputs; and   (v) combining the accepted composed music with the message or document, so as to create a new file for distribution and display.   
     
     
         12 . An automated music composition and generation system, comprising:
 an Internet-based automated music composition and generation platform deployed on a system network with a plurality of mobile and desktop client machines, each supporting text, SMS and email services augmented by the addition of automatically composed music by system users using an automated music composition and generation engine, and graphical user interfaces supported by the client machines while creating text, SMS and/or email documents so that the users can easily select graphic and/or linguistic based emotion and style descriptors for use in generating compose music pieces for text, SMS and email messages.   
     
     
         13 . An Internet-based automated music composition and generation system driven by linguistic and/or graphical icon based musical experience descriptors so as to add composed music to text, SMS and email documents/messages, wherein linguistic-based or icon-based musical experience descriptors are supplied by the system user as input through the system user interface, and used by an automated music composition and generation engine to generate a musically-scored text document or message that is generated for preview by system user via the system user interface, before finalization and transmission. 
     
     
         14 . An automated music composition and generation process using a Web-based system supporting the use of automated virtual-instrument music synthesis driven by musical experience descriptors provided as input so to automatically and instantly create musically-scored text, SMS, email, PDF, Word and/or html documents, said automated music composition and generation process comprises:
 (a) a system user accessing an automated music composition and generation system, and selecting a text, SMS or email message or Word, PDF or HTML document to be scored with music generated by said automated music composition and generation engine;   (ii) the system user providing linguistic-based and/or icon-based musical experience descriptors to said automated music composition and generation engine;   (iii) the system user initiating the automated music composition and generation system to compose and generate music based on inputted musical descriptors scored on selected messages or documents;   (iv) the system user accepting composed and generated music produced for the message or document, or rejects the music and provides feedback to the system, including providing different musical experience descriptors and a request to re-compose music based on the updated musical experience descriptor inputs; and   (v) the system combining the accepted composed music with the message or document, so as to create a new file for distribution and display.   
     
     
         15 . An automated music composition and generation process driven by linguistic and/or graphical icon based musical experience descriptors so as to create musically-scored text, SMS, email, PDF, Word and/or html documents, said automated music composition and generation process comprising:
 (a) the system user accessing said automated music composition and generation engine;   (b) selecting a text, SMS or email message or Word, PDF or HTML document to be scored (e.g. augmented) with music generated by said automated music composition and generation engine;   (ii) the system user then provides linguistic-based and/or icon-based musical experience descriptors to said automated music composition and generation engine;   (iii) the system user initiates said automated music composition and generation engine to compose and generate music based on inputted musical descriptors scored on selected messages or documents;   (iv) the system user accepts composed and generated music produced for the message or document, or rejects the music and provides feedback to said automated music composition and generation engine, including providing different musical experience descriptors and a request to re-compose music based on the updated musical experience descriptor inputs; and   (v) combining the accepted composed music with the message or document, so as to create a new file for distribution and display.