Mobile wireless internet portable radio
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Abstract
An Internet-capable radio has a communication port for connection to a modem, a connection function for connecting to the Internet upon user initiation while connected to the modem, sound circuitry for rendering audio data packets received over the Internet as analog audio output, and for delivering the audio output to one or more speaker ports, two or more stored hyperlinks addressing Internet broadcast servers; and a user input adapted to enable a user to select among the stored hyperlinks. Selection of one of the stored hyperlinks by the user input invokes the hyperlink and connects the radio to the server addressed by the hyperlink, initiating thereby an audio data stream as data packets from the broadcast server to the radio, and wherein the radio renders the data stream as analog audio data delivered to the one or more speaker ports. The user input in preferred embodiments has a plurality of pushbuttons associated with hyperlinks, which can be asserted by activating a pushbutton. In some embodiments a directory server is used for editing user profiles and programming connected Internet-capable radios.
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20 Claims
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17. A wearable Internet-capable radio, comprising:
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an enclosure configured to attach to a user'"'"'s belt or other clothing;
a wireless Internet connection;
a central processing unit for managing functions of the radio;
a digital data repository storing a plurality of assertable addresses of Internet-available audio data streams;
an analog audio output port for driving a headset of speaker apparatus;
electronic components within the enclosure for rendering a received audio data stream as electronic output to the analog audio output port; and
a user-operable input enabling a user to change the current received audio data stream by asserting an individual one of the stored assertable addresses.
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18. A headphone Internet-capable radio, comprising:
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at least one earphone apparatus in an enclosure adapted to be positioned at a user'"'"'s ear;
a wireless Internet connection implemented in conjunction with the enclosure;
a central processing unit in the enclosure for managing functions of the radio;
a digital data repository in the enclosure storing a plurality of assertable addresses of Internet-available audio data streams;
electronic components within the enclosure for rendering a received audio data stream as electronic output to the at least one earphone apparatus; and
a user-operable input enabling a user to change the current received audio data stream by asserting an individual one of the stored assertable addresses.
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19. An Internet radio system, comprising:
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a wearable receiver and audio output component having an enclosure configured to attach to a user'"'"'s belt or other clothing, a first part of a wireless communication system, a central processing unit for managing functions of the wearable receiver and audio output component, including rendering a data stream received over the wireless communication system as audio output to an earphone or other speaker, and a user-operable input enabling a user to change a currently received audio data stream; and
an Internet-connected appliance having a digital data repository storing a plurality of assertable addresses of Internet-available audio data streams, a component for asserting individual ones of the stored assertable addresses, and a second portion of the wireless communication system;
wherein the Internet-connected appliance asserts addresses, downloads audio data streams from destinations of the asserted addresses, and sends downloaded audio data streams by the wireless communication system wearable receiver and audio output component in a form usable by the component for audio rendition. - View Dependent Claims (20)
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