Mobile wireless internet portable radio
First Claim
1. An Internet network radio comprising:
- a port for Internet communication including receiving an Internet Protocol (IP) audio data stream;
circuitry for rendering said IP audio data stream as analog audio output;
a control interface comprising a set of individual tuning control inputs;
wherein the set of tuning control inputs comprises one or more of a set of physical pushbuttons, a dial with individual settings, or a display having selectable indicia;
a memory for storing at least one Universal Resource Locator (URL) of an IP audio data stream of an Internet radio station; and
programming associating said at least one URL with an individual one of said tuning control inputs;
characterized in that a single operation of said individual one of said tuning control inputs causes assertion at said port of said at least one URL, resulting in receipt of said IP audio data stream, and rendering of said received IP audio data stream into said analog audio output, the Internet radio thereby emulating operation of a conventional portable RF radio.
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Abstract
An Internet-capable radio has a communication port for connection to a modem, a connection function for connecting to the Internet upon user initiation while connected to the modem, sound circuitry for rendering audio data packets received over the Internet as analog audio output, and for delivering the audio output to one or more speaker ports, two or more stored hyperlinks addressing Internet broadcast servers; and a user input adapted to enable a user to select among the stored hyperlinks. Selection of one of the stored hyperlinks by the user input invokes the hyperlink and connects the radio to the server addressed by the hyperlink, initiating thereby an audio data stream as data packets from the broadcast server to the radio, and wherein the radio renders the data stream as analog audio data delivered to the one or more speaker ports. The user input in preferred embodiments has a plurality of pushbuttons associated with hyperlinks, which can be asserted by activating a pushbutton. In some embodiments a directory server is used for editing user profiles and programming connected Internet-capable radios.
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13 Claims
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1. An Internet network radio comprising:
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a port for Internet communication including receiving an Internet Protocol (IP) audio data stream;
circuitry for rendering said IP audio data stream as analog audio output;
a control interface comprising a set of individual tuning control inputs;
wherein the set of tuning control inputs comprises one or more of a set of physical pushbuttons, a dial with individual settings, or a display having selectable indicia;
a memory for storing at least one Universal Resource Locator (URL) of an IP audio data stream of an Internet radio station; and
programming associating said at least one URL with an individual one of said tuning control inputs;
characterized in that a single operation of said individual one of said tuning control inputs causes assertion at said port of said at least one URL, resulting in receipt of said IP audio data stream, and rendering of said received IP audio data stream into said analog audio output, the Internet radio thereby emulating operation of a conventional portable RF radio. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
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7. An Internet network radio system, comprising:
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an Internet-connected directory server storing a list of Universal Resource Locator (URL) Internet addresses of IP audio data streams of radio stations streaming real-time radio broadcasts on the Internet network, the list associated with a specific subscriber; and
an Internet network radio also associated with the subscriber, comprising a port for Internet communication including receiving the IP audio data streams, circuitry for rendering the IP audio data streams as analog audio output, a control interface comprising a set of individual tuning-control inputs, a memory, and programming associating individual memory entities with individual ones of said tuning control inputs;
wherein said set of tuning control inputs comprises one or more of a set of physical pushbuttons, a dial with individual settings, or a display having selectable indicia;
the system characterized in that the Internet network radio connects to the directory server, the directory server identifies the subscriber, associating said list with the subscriber, and provides individual ones of said listed URLs to the Internet network radio, and said Internet network radio stores said URLs in said memory as said individual memory entities associated with individual ones of said tuning control inputs, such that operation of an individual tuning control input asserts the associated URL. - View Dependent Claims (8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
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