Interactive remote control of audio or video playback and selections

• US 20020087996A1
• Filed: 11/06/2001
• Published: 07/04/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 11/10/2000
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: AOL Music Now LLC (Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: AOL Music Now LLC (Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc.)
• Inventors: Bi, Depeng, Andrews, Hoyet Harrison III, Gladwin, Stephen Christopher, Spurgat, Jeffrey Jonathan, Denkinger, Troy Steven
• Application Number:
  US09/994,011
• Publication Number:
  US 20020087996A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 725/89
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1613 for portable computers cooling arrangements therefor G06F1/203; constructional details or arrangements for pocket calculators, electronic agendas or books G06F15/0216; constructional details of portable telephone sets: with several bodies H04M1/0202
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1698 the I/O peripheral being a sending/receiving arrangement to establish a cordless communication link, e.g. radio or infrared link, integrated cellular phone details of antennas disposed inside a computer H01Q1/2266
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/002 Specific input/output arrangements not covered by G06F3/01 - G06F3/16 other optical apparatus G02B27/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/41265 having a remote control device for bidirectional communication between the remote control device and client device unidirectional remote control device H04N21/42204
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42204 User interfaces specially adapted for controlling a client device through a remote control device; Remote control devices therefor constructive details of casings for the remote control device H01H9/0235; user interfaces for controlling a tuning device of a television receiver through a remote control H03J9/00; remote control of peripheral devices connected to a television receiver through the remote control device of the television receiver H04B1/205
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/426 Internal components of the client ; Characteristics thereof H04N5/44 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4331 Caching operations, e.g. of an advertisement for later insertion during playback
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/43637 involving a wireless protocol, e.g. Bluetooth, RF or wireless LAN [IEEE 802.11] arrangements for wireless networking or broadcasting of information in indoor or near-field type systems H04B10/114
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4622 Retrieving content or additional data from different sources, e.g. from a broadcast channel and the Internet web site content organization and management for information retrieval from the Internet G06F16/958; transmission by internet of broadcast information H04H60/82; stock exchange data over packet-switching network H04L12/1804; push services including data channel over packet-switching network H04L12/1859
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47 End-user applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6125 involving transmission via Internet transmission by internet of broadcast information H04H60/82
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/17318 Direct or substantially direct transmission and handling of requests

Abstract

A system for an interactive remote control wired or wireless, of an audio or video playback application running on a personal computer or other computing platform. This interactive control includes playback of current audio or video content or selection of new audio or video content or lists of content for playback. The wireless interactive remote control device, or navigator, may contain an audio or video browser for simplifying interactive control by integrating control of a variety of content, for example, music, video, and Internet radio, independent of whether this content exists locally on the computing platform or is accessed over the Internet or some other computer network.

Claims

1. A system for controlling playback of digital content, the system comprising:

a computing platform including playback hardware for converting said digital content to audio signals for playback by an analog playback device;

a digital content player application, resident on said computing platform, for playback of said digital content; and

a remote control device for communicating with said computing platform over a predetermined communication link and controlling said digital content playback application.

2. The system as recited in claim 1, further including a transmitter for transmitting audio signals from said computing platform to a remote analog playback device.

3. The system as recited in claim 1, wherein said digital content is digital audio data.

4. The system as recited in claim 1, wherein said digital data content is digital video data.

5. The system as recited in claim 1, wherein said computing platform includes a local storage device for locally storing digital content.

6. The system as recited in claim 1, wherein said computing platform is configured to receive said digital content over a network.

7. The system as recited in claim 6, wherein said network is the Internet.

8. The system as recited in claim 1, wherein said remote control device includes user inputs as well as user outputs.

9. The system as recited in claim 5, wherein said local storage device includes a persistent storage device.

10. The system as recited in claim 5, wherein said local storage device includes a removable storage device.

11. The system as recited in claim 1, wherein said predetermined communication link is a wireless link.

12. The system as recited in claim 11, wherein said wireless link is an RF link.

13. The system as recited in claim 11, wherein said wireless link is an infrared link.