PORTABLE MEDIA DELIVERY SYSTEM WITH A MEDIA SERVER AND HIGHLY PORTABLE MEDIA CLIENT DEVICES

• US 20100250669A1
• Filed: 06/07/2010
• Published: 09/30/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 07/14/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Yang Pan
• Original Assignee: Yang Pan
• Inventors: Pan, Yang
• Application Number:
  US12/794,780
• Publication Number:
  US 20100250669A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/203
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/10 Indexing; Addressing; Timing or synchronising; Measuring tape travel

Abstract

A media delivery system comprises a portable media server and a client device. The client device may be an audio player. The client device may also be an enabling part of the media server. A predetermined playlist of media assets is transferred from the server to the client when they are connected in a wired manner or in a wireless manner. Motion sensors such as accelerometers are integrated into earphones to control the operations of the audio player. In an exemplary case, the motion sensor in one of the earphone is used to increase the sound volume and the sensor in another earphone is used to reduce the sound volume.

Claims

1. A portable media delivery system, comprising a portable media player as a server and at least one stripped-down audio player as a client, wherein the playlist of the client and a selected playlist of the server are synchronized automatically when the server and the client are connected through a communication means.

2. The system as recited in claim 1, wherein said communication means comprising a wired connection.

3. The system as recited in claim 2, wherein said wired connection comprising a Universal Serial Bus type of connection.

4. The system as recited in claim 1, wherein said communication means comprising a wireless communication means.

5. The system as recited in claim 4, wherein the wireless communication means comprising:

a. IEEE 802.11 (Wi-Fi) and its amendments;

b. IEEE 802.15.1 (Bluetooth) and its amendments; and

c. IEEE 802.15.4 (Zigbee) and its amendments.

6. The system as recited in claim 1, wherein said portable media player further comprising a processor for controlling the operation of the server and the client when they are connected.

7. The system as recited in claim 1, wherein said strip-down version of audio player further comprising a processor, a CODEC, a cache and a pair of earphones.

8. The system as recited in claim 1, wherein said stripped-down version of audio player comprising no display screen and no visible input device and operations of the audio player are controlled by using motion sensors affixed to the earphones and the audio player.

9. The system as recited in claim 1, wherein said playlist in the portable media player may be predetermined before the server and the client are connected.

10. The system as recited in claim 1, wherein said playlist in the portable media player may be modifiable when the playlist is being transferred from the server to the client.

11. A portable media player, comprising a detachable sub-system as an enabling part, wherein said enabling part may be operated as an audio player when it is detached from the portable media player.

12. The portable media player as recited in claim 11, wherein said enabling part is connectable to the player through a wired connection including a Universal Serial Bus type of connection.

13. The portable media player as recited in claim 11, wherein said audio player comprising a processor, a CODEC, a cache and a pair of earphones.

14. The portable media player as recited in claim 11, wherein said stripped-down version of audio player comprising no display screen and no visible input device and operations of the audio player are controlled by using motion sensors affixed to the earphones and the audio player.

15. The portable media player as recited in claim 11, wherein a plurality of pre-selected media assets are stored in a storage device located in the enabling part of the portable media player, wherein said storage device further including a cache.

16. A method of transferring a plurality of media assets from a server to a client comprising:

a. selecting a plurality of media assets from a media asset database of the server;

b. placing the selected media assets into a predetermined folder as a playlist;

c. transferring the playlist to the client when the server and client connected;

d. modifying the playlist by adding new media assets and/or by deleting one or a plurality of existing media assets through a user interface of the server when the media assets are being transferred; and

e. transferring the newly added assets to the client and removing the deleted assets.

17. The method as recited in claim 16, wherein said steps of transferring the media assets from the server to the client may be accomplished by a processor in the server.

18. The method as recited in claim 16, wherein said transferred media assets may be stored in a storage device of the client including a cache.

19. The method as recited in claim 16, wherein said media assets may be transferred accompanying with transferring predetermined control parameters associated with the playlist.

20. The method as recited in claim 16, wherein said newly added media assets may be listed from the bottom of the playlist in a sequential manner.