Mobile telephone including means for implementing a game application during playback of a soundtrack

• US 20120178532A1
• Filed: 07/26/2011
• Published: 07/12/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 07/29/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Myriad Group AG
• Original Assignee: Myriad Group AG
• Inventors: Deyres, Arnaud
• Application Number:
  US13/136,199
• Publication Number:
  US 20120178532A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 463/35
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 9/183 electric
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72427 for supporting games or graphical animations
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72442 for playing music files
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2203/1066 Game playing
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2207/18 wireless networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/493 Interactive information services, e.g. directory enquiries ; Arrangements therefor, e.g. interactive voice response [IVR] systems or voice portals

Abstract

A mobile telephone, including:

• • selector (36) for selecting sound track content and at least one attribute specific to the sound track from a file,
  • a sound playback device (35, 22) for the sound track contained in the selected file,
  • a man/machine interface (40, 42) making it possible to implement a question/answer game application (37) on the telephone.

The game application (37) includes a parameter whereof the value defines the subject-matter of the questions; and

• • it includes an implementor for implementing the game application (37) during the playback of each sound track with, for value of the parameter, an attribute of the sound track being played back.

Claims

1-7. -7. (canceled)

8. A mobile telephone, comprising:

a selector for selecting sound track content and at least one attribute specific to the sound track from a file;

a sound playback device for the sound track contained in the selected file;

a man/machine interface capable of implementing a question/answer game application on the telephone, the game application including a parameter, a value of the parameter defining a subject-matter of the questions; and

an implementor for implementing the game application during the playback of each sound track, the implementor using, for the value of the parameter, an attribute of the at least one attributes of the sound track being played back.

9. The mobile telephone as recited in claim 8 wherein the implementor includes:

a querier for querying a remote server associated with a question database, by sending the attribute of the file being played back; and

a receiver for receiving at least one question corresponding to the value of the attribute sent.

10. The mobile telephone as recited in claim 8 wherein the game application includes question provider for providing the user with a question related to the attribute of the sound track, during the playback of the sound track, an input for receiving a response to the question by the user and an assessor for assessing the relevance of the response provided by the user.

11. The mobile telephone as recited in claim 8 wherein the game application is capable, during playback of the sound track, to receive from the user at least one question and at least one related answer and to store the question and related answer in connection with the attribute of the sound track, for later use in the game during the playback of a sound track associated with the attribute.

12. The mobile telephone as recited in claim 8 wherein the attribute is defined by an attribute value indicating one of the group consisting of the name of the author of the sound track, the name of the artist of the sound track, the title of the sound track and the type of the sound track.

13. The mobile telephone as recited in claim 8 further comprising a storage for permanently saving sound files in the telephone, the sound playback device of the sound track being able to ensure the playback of the selected sound files contained in the telephone.

14. An installation including:

a mobile telephone as recited in claim 8; and

a remote server able to communicate with the mobile telephone and including a database associating sound file attributes with questions/answers.