SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MULTI-CONTEXT MEDIA CONTROL AND PLAYBACK

• US 20150199122A1
• Filed: 07/01/2013
• Published: 07/16/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 06/29/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Spotify AB (Spotify Technology SA)
• Original Assignee: Spotify AB (Spotify Technology SA)
• Inventors: Garmark, Sten, Rs, Karl Magnus, man, Andreas, Bengtsson, Per Gunnar Joachim, Vesterlund, Marcus Per
• Granted Patent: US 10,440,075 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04847 Interaction techniques to control parameter settings, e.g. interaction with sliders or dials
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/165 Management of the audio stream, e.g. setting of volume, audio stream path
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0267 Wireless devices
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/90 Wireless transmission systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/2805 Home Audio Video Interoperability [HAVI] networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1083 In-session procedures
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1089 by adding media; by removing media
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1093 by adding participants; by removing participants
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1094 Inter-user-equipment sessions transfer or sharing
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/61 for supporting one-way streaming services, e.g. Internet radio
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/613 for the control of the source by the destination control signals issued by the client directed to the server or network components specially adapted for selective content distribution H04N21/637
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/01 Protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/104 Peer-to-peer [P2P] networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72442 for playing music files
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/433 Content storage operation, e.g. storage operation in response to a pause request, caching operations
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services

Abstract

A method of remotely controlling an electronic device is disclosed. In some implementations, the method is performed on a server system. The server system receives, from a first electronic device, a first media control request, wherein the first electronic device provides a single user interface that allows a user to both select media content for presentation by the first electronic device and to generate media control requests for transmission to the server system; and the first electronic device also sends a second media control request to a second electronic device over a local area network to which both the first electronic device and the second electronic device are connected. The server system then sends the received first media control request to the second electronic device, distinct from the first electronic device, wherein the server system and the second electronic device are not on the same local area network.

Claims

1-57. -57. (canceled)

58. A method for controlling an electronic device, comprising:

at a first electronic device having one or more processors and memory storing one or more programs for execution by the one or more processors;

detecting a first selection of a control;

determining a current media presentation context associated with a user of the first electronic device;

if the current media presentation context satisfies a first condition, presenting, at the first electronic device, media content from a paused position; and

if the current media presentation context fails to satisfy the first condition, presenting, at the first electronic device, second media content.

59. The method of claim 58, wherein the media content is recently presented media content, and wherein the media presentation context includes an identifier of the recently presented media content and the pause position of the recently presented media content.

60. The method of claim 58, wherein the first condition is satisfied if the media content was paused at a second electronic device within a first time period before detecting the first selection.

61. The method of claim 58, wherein presenting the second media content includes:

selecting the second media content; and

presenting the second media content at the first electronic device.

62. The method of claim 58, further comprising:

detecting a second selection of the control while third media content is being presented by a second electronic device; and

presenting the third media content in substantial synchrony with the presentation of the third media content at the second electronic device.

63. The method of claim 62, wherein the first selection of the control is a momentary selection of a “

PLAY”

button.

64. The method of claim 62, wherein the second selection of the control is a maintained selection of the “

PLAY”

button.

65. A method for controlling an electronic device, comprising:

at a first electronic device having one or more processors and memory storing one or more programs for execution by the one or more processors;

detecting a first selection of a control during presentation of a first media content item;

in response to detecting the first selection, presenting a second media content item that is related to the first media content item;

detecting a second selection of the control during presentation of the second media content item, wherein no control selections are detected between the first selection of the control and the second selection of the control; and

in response to detecting the second selection, presenting a third media content item that is related to the second media content item.

66. The method of claim 65, further comprising:

in response to detecting the first selection, presenting a first playlist including media content related to the first media content item, wherein the second media content item is included in the first playlist; and

in response to detecting the second selection, presenting a second playlist including media content related to the second media content item, wherein the third media content item is included in the second playlist.

67. The method of claim 65, further comprising, prior to presenting the second media content item, ceasing presentation of the first media content item before an end of the first media content item.

68. The method of claim 65, further comprising delaying presenting the second media content item until an end of the first media content item is reached.

69. The method of claim 65, wherein the control is a “

RADIO”

button.

70. The method of claim 65, wherein the second media content item is related to the first media content item based on a similarity between the first and the second media content items in any of the group consisting of:

genre, artist, mood, sound, tempo, volume, and key.

71. The method of claim 65, wherein the third media content item is related to the second media content item based on a similarity between the second and the third media content items in any of the group consisting of:

genre, artist, mood, sound, tempo, volume, and key.

72. A first electronic device, comprising:

one or more processors; and

memory storing one or more programs for execution by the one or more processors, the one or more programs including instructions for;

detecting a first selection of a control;

determining a current media presentation context associated with a user of the first electronic device;

if the current media presentation context satisfies a first condition, presenting, at the first electronic device, media content from a paused position; and

if the current media presentation context fails to satisfy the first condition, presenting, at the first electronic device, second media content.

73. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing one or more programs, the one or more programs comprising instructions, which, when executed by a first electronic device with one or more processors, cause the first electronic device to:

detect a first selection of a control;

determine a current media presentation context associated with a user of the first eletronic device;

if the current media presentation context satisfies a first condition, present, at the first electronic device, media content from a paused position; and

if the current media presentation context fails to satisfy the first condition, present, at the first electronic device, second media content.

74. A first electronic device, comprising:

one or more processors; and

memory storing one or more programs for execution by the one or more processors, the one or more programs including instructions for;

detecting a first selection of a control during presentation of a first media content item;

in response to detecting the first selection, presenting a second media content item that is related to the first media content item;

detecting a second selection of the control during presentation of the second media content item, wherein no control selections are detected between the first selection of the control and the second selection of the control; and

in response to detecting the second selection, presenting a third media content item that is related to the second media content item.

75. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing one or more programs, the one or more programs comprising instructions, which, when executed by a first electronic device with one or more processors, cause the first electronic device to:

detect a first selection of a control during presentation of a first media content item;

in response to detecting the first selection, present a second media content item that is related to the first media content item;

detect a second selection of the control during presentation of the second media content item, wherein no control selections are detected between the first selection of the control and the second selection of the control; and

in response to detecting the second selection, present a third media content item that is related to the second media content item.