PROVIDING THIRD PARTY CONTENT TO MEDIA DEVICES
First Claim
1. In a system including a portable media device that receives content from one or more media content providers, a method for interfacing between the portable media device and the one or more media content providers, the method comprising:
- identifying a first data format employed by a portable media device;
identifying a second data format employed by a selected media content provider;
receiving data from the selected media content provider, the data conforming to the second data format;
modifying the data received from the selected media content provider to be compatible with the first data format; and
communicating the modified data to the portable media device.
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Abstract
A method and system for interfacing between a portable media device and one or more media content providers. The method may be practiced, for example, in a system including the portable media device that receives content from one or more media content providers. The method can include identifying a first data format employed by the portable media device and a second data format employed by a selected media content provider. A data stream is received from the selected media content provider. The data received from the selected media content provider can be modified to be compatible with the first data format. Alternately or additionally, the data stream can be filtered to eliminate content that is unnecessary for the portable media device. The method further includes communicating the formatted data to the portable media device.
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23 Claims
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1. In a system including a portable media device that receives content from one or more media content providers, a method for interfacing between the portable media device and the one or more media content providers, the method comprising:
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identifying a first data format employed by a portable media device;
identifying a second data format employed by a selected media content provider;
receiving data from the selected media content provider, the data conforming to the second data format;
modifying the data received from the selected media content provider to be compatible with the first data format; and
communicating the modified data to the portable media device. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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12. In a service capable of communicating with one or more portable media devices and one or more media content providers, a method for interfacing between the one or more portable media devices and the one or more media content providers, the method comprising:
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identifying one of the one or more media content providers with which a portable media device will communicate;
receiving a first data stream from the identified media content provider;
filtering the first data stream to eliminate content that is unnecessary for the portable media device; and
communicating the filtered data stream to the portable media device. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22)
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23. A service for communicating data between one or more portable media devices and one or more media content providers, comprising:
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one or more transceivers for transferring data between the service and the one or more portable media devices and between the service and the one or more media content providers;
one or more memory modules for storing data received from the one or more portable media devices and the one or more media content providers; and
a processor configured to format the data received from the one or more portable media devices to be compatible with a data format employed by the one or more media content providers, and for formatting the data received from the one or more media content providers to be compatible with a data format employed by the one or more portable media devices.
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