Electronic device and method therefor

• US 20070239781A1
• Filed: 04/11/2006
• Published: 10/11/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 04/11/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Nokia Corporation
• Original Assignee: Nokia Corporation
• Inventors: Nielsen, Peter, Kraft, Christian
• Application Number:
  US11/402,279
• Publication Number:
  US 20070239781A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2220/61 wherein solid state memory is used for storing A/V content
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/102 Programmed access in sequence to addressed parts of tracks of operating record carriers access by moving the head G11B3/08, G11B5/54, G11B7/085, G11B21/022; by moving the record carrier G11B15/005, G11B17/005, by driving of both record carrier and head G11B15/1816
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/3027 used signal is digitally coded
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/329 on a disc [VTOC]
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/34 Indicating arrangements indicating means incorporated in magazine or cassette G11B23/046 and G11B23/0875; indicating measured values in general G01D
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/33 Arrangements for monitoring the users' behaviour or opinions
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/46 for recognising users' preferences
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/65 for using the result on users' side
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/74 using programme related information, e.g. title, composer or interpreter
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4586 Content update operation triggered locally, e.g. by comparing the version of software modules in a DVB carousel to the version stored locally deployment, distribution, installation, update of software G06F8/65; error detection or correction of the data by redundancy during software upgrading G06F11/1433; arrangements for updating broadcast information or broadcast-related information H04H60/25
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4667 Processing of monitored end-user data, e.g. trend analysis based on the log file of viewer selections
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4668 for recommending content, e.g. movies
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4755 for defining user preferences, e.g. favourite actors or genre retrieval personalisation and generation of user profiles for the retrieval of video data G06F16/739; user profiles in network data switching protocols H04L67/306
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8113 comprising music, e.g. song in MP3 format
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/165 Centralised control of user terminal subsequent to an upstream request signal H04N7/17345; Registering at central by two-way working H04N7/17309

Abstract

An electronic device including a user communication interface; a memory for storing music tracks and information about each of the stored music tracks, a music player capable of playing back the music tracks, and a processor. The information includes titles of the music tracks and names of artists or music groups on the music tracks, and the processor is provided for creating a list of favorite artists or music groups and playing back music tracks stored in the memory, one after the other, in response to a request from a user of the device via the user communication interface, wherein the played back music tracks are performed by one, several or all of the favorite artists or music groups in the list of favorite artists or music groups.

Claims

1. An electronic device comprising:

a user communication interface;

a memory for storing music tracks and information about each of the stored music tracks, said information comprising titles of the music tracks and names of artists or music groups on the music tracks;

a music player capable of playing back the music tracks; and

a processor provided for creating a list of favorite artists or music groups and controlling the music player to play back music tracks stored in the memory, one after the other, in response to a request from a user of the device via the user communication interface, wherein said played back music tracks are performed by one, several or all of the favorite artists or music groups in the list of favorite artists or music groups.

2. The device of claim 1 wherein said processor is provided for creating the list of favorite artists or music groups in response to a manual selection from a user of the device via the user communication interface.

3. The device of claim 1 wherein said processor is provided for creating the list of favorite artists or music groups automatically based on logged information regarding artists or music groups of music tracks that have been played back on said music player.

4. The device of claim 1 wherein said processor is provided, in connection with the downloading of a music track of a particular artist or music group that is not comprised in the list of favorite artists or music groups, for providing a notification of the name of the particular artist or music group of the music track to the user via said user communication interface, said notification being accompanied by input means for the user to select to add the particular artist or music group of the music track to the list of favorite artists or music groups.

5. The device of claim 1 wherein said device comprises a radio tuner capable of receiving music tracks and names of artists or music groups on the music tracks from a plurality of radio stations, and said processor is provided for creating the list of favorite artists or music groups automatically based on logged information regarding artists or music groups of music tracks that have been received by said radio tuner.

6. The device of claim 1 wherein said device comprises a radio tuner capable of receiving music tracks and names of artists or music groups on the music tracks from a plurality of radio stations, and said processor is provided, in connection with the receiving of a music track of a particular artist or music group that is not comprised in the list of favorite artists or music groups by the radio tuner, for providing a notification of the name of the particular artist or music group of the music track to the user via said user communication interface, said notification being accompanied by input means for the user to select to add the particular artist or music group of the music track to the list of favorite artists or music groups.

7. The device of claim 1 wherein said processor is provided for

searching for music tracks stored in the memory that are performed by an artist or music group comprised in the list of favorite artists or music groups in response to a request from a user of the device via the user communication interface;

and

alerting a user of the device via said user communication interface about the result of said search.

8. The device of claim 1 wherein said processor is provided for

generating a play list of all music tracks of a set of artists or music groups stored in the memory, the set of artists or music groups being selected from the list of favorite artists or music groups;

and

controlling the music player to play back music tracks of said play list of music tracks in response to a request from a user of the device via the user communication interface.

9. The device of claim 8 wherein said set of artists or music groups are selected as one, several, or all of the artists or music groups of the list of favorite artists or music groups.

10. The device of claim 8 wherein said processor is provided for creating the play list in response to a manual selection from a user of the device via the user communication interface.

11. The device of claim 8 wherein said processor is provided for creating the play list automatically based on information stored in the memory.

12. The device of claim 1 wherein said processor is provided for ordering the favorite artists or music groups in the list of favorite artists or music groups in a selected order.

13. The device of claim 1 wherein said electronic device is a hand-portable telephone.

14. A method for playing back music tracks in an electronic device comprising a user communication interface, a memory for storing music tracks and information about each of the stored music tracks, a music player capable of playing back the music tracks, and a processor, wherein information comprises titles of the music tracks and names of artists or music groups on the music tracks, said method comprising:

creating a list of favorite artists or music groups; and

playing back music tracks stored in the memory one after the other in response to a request from a user of the device via the user communication interface, wherein

said played back music tracks are performed by one, several or all of the favorite artists or music groups in the list of favorite artists or music groups.

15. An electronic device comprising:

a user communication interface;

a memory for storing music tracks and information about each of the stored music tracks, said information comprising titles of the music tracks and names of artists or music groups on the music tracks;

a music player capable of playing back the music tracks stored in the memory; and

a processor provided for

logging the information about music tracks that have been received by the radio tuner and about music tracks that have been played back on said music player; and

creating a play list of music tracks or a list of favorite artists or music groups automatically based on said logged information.

16. The device of claim 15 wherein said processor is provided for

analyzing the logged information to find the mostly received/played music tracks and/or the mostly received/played artists or music groups;

and

creating a play list of music tracks automatically, wherein said music tracks are the mostly received/played music tracks and/or music tracks of the mostly received/played artists or music groups.

17. The device of claim 15 wherein said processor is provided for

analyzing the logged information to find the mostly received/played music tracks and/or the mostly received/played artists or music groups;

and

creating list of favorite artists or music groups, wherein the favorite artists or music groups are the mostly received/played artists or music groups.

18. The device of claim 15 wherein

said information stored in the memory comprises, for each of the played back music tracks, the name of the music album and/or of the music genre, to which the music track belongs;

and

the logged information comprises, for each of the music tracks played back, the name of the music album and/or of the music genre, to which the music track belongs.

19. The device of claim 15 wherein

said information received by the radio tuner comprises, for each of the received music tracks, the name of the music album or of the music genre, to which the music track belongs;

and

the logged information comprises, for each of the music tracks received, the name of the music album or of the music genre, to which the music track belongs.

20. The device of claim 15 wherein the logged information comprises, for each music track received and for each music track played back, a day and time, at which the music track was received/played back.

21. The device of claim 20 wherein said processor is provided for

analyzing the logged information to find received/played music tracks that have been received/played during a particular time interval;

and

creating a play list of music tracks or a list of favorite artists or music groups automatically based on information regarding music tracks that have been received/played during a particular time interval.

22. The device of claim 15 wherein the logged information only comprises information about music tracks that have been received by the radio tuner in its entirety and music tracks that have been played back on said music player in its entirety.

23. The device of claim 15 wherein the logged information only comprises information about music tracks that have been received by the radio tuner at least during a given period of time and music tracks that have been played back on said music player at least during a given period of time.

24. A method in an electronic device comprising a user communication interface, a radio tuner a radio tuner capable of receiving music tracks and information about each of the music tracks from a plurality of radio stations, a memory for storing music tracks and information about each of the stored music tracks, a music player capable of playing back the music tracks stored in the memory, and a processor, wherein said information capable of being received by the radio tuner comprises titles of received music tracks, and names of artists or music groups on the received music tracks, and said information stored in the memory comprises titles of the music tracks stored in the memory and names of artists or music groups on the music tracks stored in the memory, said method comprising the steps of:

logging the information about music tracks that have been received by the radio tuner and music tracks that have been played back on said music player; and

creating a play list of music tracks, or a list of favorite artists or music groups, automatically based on said logged information.

25. An electronic device comprising:

a user communication interface;

a radio tuner capable of receiving music tracks and information about each of the music tracks from a plurality of radio stations, said information comprising titles of the music tracks, and names of artists or music groups on the music tracks;

a memory for storing music tracks and information about each of the stored music tracks, said information comprising titles of the music tracks and names of artists or music groups on the music tracks;

a music player capable of playing back the music tracks stored in the memory; and

a processor provided for

logging the information about music tracks that have been received by the radio tuner and about music tracks that have been played back on said music player; and

displaying said logged information in a list via said user communication interface.

26. A method in an electronic device comprising a user communication interface, a radio tuner a radio tuner capable of receiving music tracks and information about each of the music tracks from a plurality of radio stations, a memory for storing music tracks and information about each of the stored music tracks, a music player capable of playing back the music tracks stored in the memory, and a processor, wherein said information capable of being received by the radio tuner comprises titles of received music tracks, and names of artists or music groups on the received music tracks, and said information stored in the memory comprises titles of the music tracks stored in the memory and names of artists or music groups on the music tracks stored in the memory, said method comprising:

logging the information about music tracks that have been received by the radio tuner and music tracks that have been played back on said music player; and

displaying said logged information in a list via said user communication interface.