Justin A Zitler

20050182634, Aug 18, 2005

Apr 13, 2005

11/104687

Justin Zitler - New Orleans LA, US
Jerry Brock - New Orleans LA, US

G11B005/09
G11B015/52
G11B019/02

704503000, 704500000

An original business method that significantly improves the recorded music industry-standard street release method (a coined term) of selling recorded music in the open-source CD format, by reconfiguring the use of conventional and Internet distribution channels; including first obtaining ownership and/or distribution rights in and to groups of approximately 100 new sound recordings featuring artists generally recognizable to the public within a definable genre of musical style, then creating a Golden digital songfile(a coined term) for each new sound recording acquired, utilizing any one of a number of suitable data compression/decompression technologies, then storing the GDS(s) in an open-portal database, then promoting and marketing the GDS(s) over the Internet through first-click access (a coined term) to genre-specific main music menus on any number of retail website(s), then offering the GDS(s) for electronic purchase to the computer consumer, then selecting certain Golden digital songfiles for crossover distribution (a coined term) through industry-standard street release method, then expanding the above formula to other groups of approximately 100 Golden digital songfiles featuring recognized artists in all definable music genres.

20040034539, Feb 19, 2004

Aug 14, 2002

10/218129

Justin Zitler - New Orleans LA, US
Jerry Brock - New Orleans LA, US

G06F017/60

705/001000, 705/026000

An original business method that significantly improves the recorded music industry-standard street release method of selling recorded music in the open-source CD format, by reconfiguring the use of conventional and Internet distribution channels; including first obtaining ownership and/or distribution rights in and to groups of approximately 100 new sound recordings featuring artists generally recognizable to the public within a definable genre of musical style, then creating a Golden digital songfile for each new sound recording acquired, utilizing any one of a number of suitable data compression/decompression technologies, then storing the GDS(s) in an open-portal database, then promoting and marketing the GDS(s) over the Internet through first-click access to genre-specific main music menus on any number of retail website(s), then offering the GDS(s) for electronic purchase to the computer consumer, then selecting certain Golden digital songfiles for crossover distribution through industry-standard street release method, then expanding the above formula to other groups of approximately 100 Golden digital songfiles featuring recognized artists in all definable music genres.