Mobile media device user interface

• US 10,191,625 B2
• Filed: 06/11/2014
• Issued: 01/29/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 06/24/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Inventors: Fong, Jeffrey C., Stinson, D. Graham, Guerrero, Miguel
• Primary Examiner(s): Phantana-Angkool, David
• Application Number:
  US14/302,315
• Publication Number:
  US 20140297412A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,693 Days
• Field of Search: 715727
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0484 for the control of specific functions or operations, e.g. selecting or manipulating an object, an image or a displayed text element, setting a parameter value or selecting a range
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/16 Sound input; Sound output speech processing G10L
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0257 User requested
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0601 Electronic shopping [e-shopping]
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 20/57 for mobile receivers
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/27 Arrangements for recording or accumulating broadcast information or broadcast-related information
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/31 Arrangements for monitoring the use made of the broadcast services
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/63 for services of sales data processing systems or methods specially adapted for electronic commerce G06Q30/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/74 using programme related information, e.g. title, composer or interpreter
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/85 which are mobile communication networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/08 for authentication of entities cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication H04L9/32
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/41407 embedded in a portable device, e.g. video client on a mobile phone, PDA, laptop constructional details of equipment or arrangements specially adapted for portable computer application G06F1/1626; arrangements specially adapted for mobile receivers in broadcast systems H04H20/57
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4436 Power management, e.g. shutting down unused components of the receiver power management in computer systems G06F1/3203; hibernate or awake process in computer systems G06F9/4418
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47 End-user applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47815 Electronic shopping payment schemes, payment architectures or payment protocols for electronic shopping systems G06Q20/12
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/482 End-user interface for program selection broadcast systems using EPGs H04H60/72
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8113 comprising music, e.g. song in MP3 format
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/84 Generation or processing of descriptive data, e.g. content descriptors systems specially adapted for using meta-information in broadcast systems H04H60/73

Abstract

A mobile media device user interface is described. In one or more implementations, output of a plurality of audio content is monitored by a mobile media device. Each of the audio content was received via a respective one of a plurality of broadcast channels by the mobile media device. A user interface is displayed on a display device of the mobile media device, the user interface describing each of the plurality of audio content and the respective broadcast channel from which the audio content was received.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

receiving, via a mobile media device, a plurality of audio content from a plurality of channels obtained from a variety of content providers and metadata that is streamed with and describes the audio content including a network address to a website that includes additional information related to particular audio content;

monitoring output of the plurality of audio content by the mobile media device;

displaying in a user interface on a display device of the mobile media device, for each of the plurality of audio content that was previously output, a description of the previously output audio content, a description of the particular channel of the plurality of channels from which the previously output audio content was received, and a description of the particular content provider from which the particular channel was obtained and, based on the received metadata, a link to the network address to the website that includes additional information related to particular audio content;

receiving a selection of the link via the user interface; and

navigating to the network address in response to the selection.

2. A method as described in claim 1, wherein a portion of the user interface that describes a particular said audio content is selectable to initiate an operation to purchase the particular said audio content via a network connection.

3. A method as described in claim 2, wherein the particular said audio content once purchased is downloadable by another media device.

4. A method as described in claim 2, wherein the operation includes authenticating a user of the mobile media device using an authentication service.

5. A method as described in claim 4, wherein the authentication of the user by the authentication service provides access to a plurality of websites, at least one of which is configured to provide the particular said audio content for purchase.

6. A method as described in claim 4, wherein the authentication of the user by the authentication service is performed automatically and without user intervention using a token that is stored on the mobile media device.

7. A method as described in claim 1, wherein a first one of the plurality of channels is received using frequency modulation (FM) and a second one of the plurality of channels is received via satellite.

8. A method as described in claim 1, wherein the user interface describes each of the plurality of audio content using metadata received with respective said audio content.

9. A method as described in claim 1, wherein the user interface describes the plurality of audio content in reverse chronological order of when each of the plurality of audio content was output, respectively.

10. A mobile media device comprising:

a display device; and

one or more modules configured to perform operations comprising;

receiving wirelessly, via the mobile media device, a plurality of audio content from a plurality of channels obtained from a variety of sources and metadata that is streamed with and describes the audio content including a network address to a website that includes additional information related to particular audio content;

outputting the plurality of audio content that has been wirelessly received via the plurality of channels obtained from the variety of sources;

displaying a user interface in a single screen on the display device that includes one or more of the audio content that is an advertisement, the user interface configured to display a summary of user navigation among each of one or more channels of the plurality of channels by describing for each said audio content, the audio content, a particular channel of the one or more channels associated with the audio content, and a particular one of the variety of sources that provided the audio content and, based on the received metadata, a link to the network address to the website that includes additional information related to particular audio content;

receiving a selection of the link via the user interface; and

navigating to the network address in response to the selection.

11. The mobile media device as described in claim 10, wherein:

the one or more modules are configured to receive the one or more of the audio content that is an advertisement wirelessly via a one-way broadcast; and

the description of the advertisement is selectable in the user interface to navigate to the advertisement that is accessible by the one or more modules via a two-way network connection.

12. The mobile media device as described in claim 11, wherein the two-way network connection provides an Internet connection and the one-way broadcast is received via a radio broadcast in compliance with frequency modulation (FM).

13. The mobile media device as described in claim 11, wherein the description of the advertisement in the user interface includes metadata that was received with the advertisement.

14. The mobile media device as described in claim 10, wherein the description of the advertisement is selectable in the user interface to navigate to the advertisement via an Internet connection to purchase a good or service that pertains to the advertisement.

15. One or more computer-readable memory devices comprising instructions that are executable by a mobile media device to output a user interface that describes a plurality of content received via a plurality of channels from a plurality of sources and output by the mobile media device, the user interface having one or more options to purchase the plurality of content for download, the user interface configured to provide a summary of user-navigation by describing each of the plurality of channels and from which of the plurality of sources the content was received from, each associated with a respective one of a plurality of content described in the user interface in a single screen and output by the mobile media device, wherein the user interface further includes a link to a network address to a website that includes additional information related to particular content, the network address included in metadata streamed with and describing the particular content.

16. The one or more computer-readable memory devices as described in claim 15, wherein the mobile media device is installed in a vehicle.

17. The one or more computer-readable memory devices as described in claim 15, wherein the plurality of sources includes a one-way broadcast and a two-way network connection, and the plurality of content includes audio content that was received via an FM broadcast and audio content that was received via a satellite broadcast.

18. The one or more computer-readable memory devices as described in claim 15, wherein the user interface describes the plurality of content in reverse chronological order of when each of the plurality of audio content was output, respectively, by the mobile media device.

19. The one or more computer-readable memory devices as described in claim 15, wherein the user interface describes the plurality of content in groups arranged by source.

20. The one or more computer-readable memory devices as described in claim 15, wherein the user interface has one or more options to purchase the plurality of content for download to and local storage by the mobile media device.