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Location-based music content identification

  • US 10,362,078 B2
  • Filed: 04/06/2016
  • Issued: 07/23/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/03/2014
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method comprising:

  • transmitting, via a network interface of a mobile computing device over one or more networks to one or more servers of a media streaming service, a location message including global positioning system (GPS) data indicating GPS coordinates that represent a current location of the mobile computing device;

    receiving, via the network interface of the mobile computing device over the one or more networks from the one or more servers in response to the location message including the GPS data, (i) identification information indicating a particular first audio track that is currently playing on one or more playback devices at the current location of the mobile computing device and two or more recently played second audio tracks that were played back preceding the particular first audio track by the one or more playback devices and (ii) availability information indicating that the particular first audio track and the two or more recently played second audio tracks are available for streaming playback via a media streaming service, wherein the one or more playback devices are playing a playlist including the particular first audio track and the two or more recently played second audio tracks, wherein the one or more playback devices are different from the one or more servers and the mobile computing device; and

    based on receiving the identification information, causing, via the mobile computing device, a graphical interface to concurrently display (i) a Now Playing region including a first graphical indication of the particular first audio track currently playing on the one or more playback devices, (ii) a second region including graphical indicators of the two or more recently played second audio tracks and (iii) a selectable third region including an graphical indication that the particular first audio track and the two or more recently played second audio tracks are available for playback via the media streaming service, wherein the selectable third region links to the playlist of the media streaming service, and wherein the audio tracks of the playlist are streamable to the mobile computing device from the media streaming service.

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