Audio-contents demo system connectable to a mobile telephone device

• US 6,738,805 B2
• Filed: 05/11/2001
• Issued: 05/18/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 05/24/2000
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Rakuten Group, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Victor Company of Japan Limited (JVC Kenwood Corporation), Victor Entertainment, Inc. (JVC Kenwood Corporation)
• Inventors: Negishi, Hiromitsu
• Primary Examiner(s): VU, VIET DUY
• Application Number:
  US09/852,661
• Publication Number:
  US 20010049278A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,103 Days
• Field of Search: 709/206, 709/217, 709/219, 709/225, 709/227, 709/228, 709/328, 709/329
• US Class Current: 709/219
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/04 specially adapted for terminals or networks with limited capabilities; specially adapted for terminal portability
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/51 Discovery or management thereof, e.g. service location protocol [SLP] or web services
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/40 Network security protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2207/18 wireless networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/4938 comprising a voice browser which renders and interprets, e.g. VoiceXML

Abstract

An audio-contents demo system includes a WWW server, a system server, and a mobile telephone device. The WWW server stores information representing audio contents. The system server can be connected with the WWW server via the Internet. The mobile telephone device can be connected with the system server via either a telephone-Internet connection service or a public telephone network. The mobile telephone device sends a signal of a demo-request toward the system server via the telephone-Internet connection service. In response to the demo-request signal sent from the mobile telephone device, the system server accesses the WWW server and takes out a piece of the audio-contents information from the WWW server via the Internet. The audio-contents information piece corresponds to the demo-request signal sent from the mobile telephone device. The system server sends the audio-contents information piece toward the mobile telephone device via the public telephone network.

Claims

1. An audio-contents demo system comprising:

a WWW server storing information representing audio contents;

a system server connectable with the WWW server via the Internet;

a mobile telephone device connectable with the system server via either a telephone-Internet connection service based on packet communication or a public telephone network;

means provided in the mobile telephone device for sending a signal of a demo-request toward the system server via the telephone-Internet connection service based on packet communication;

means provided in the system server and responsive to the demo-request signal sent from the mobile telephone device for accessing the WWW server and taking out a piece of the audio-contents information from the WWW server via the Internet, the audio-contents information piece corresponding to the demo-request signal sent from the mobile telephone device; and

means provided in the system server for converting the audio-contents information piece into an analog signal, for changing connection with the mobile telephone device from the packet-communication-based telephone-Internet connection service to the public telephone network, and for sending the analog signal toward the mobile telephone device via the public telephone network.

2. A system server comprising:

first means for providing connection with a WWW server via the Internet, the WWW server storing information representing audio contents;

second means for providing connection with a mobile telephone device via either a telephone-Internet connection service based on packet communication or a public telephone network;

third means for receiving a signal of a demo-request from the mobile telephone device via the telephone-Internet connection service based on packet communication;

fourth means responsive to the demo-request signal received by the third means for accessing the WWW server and taking out a piece of the audio-contents information from the WWW server via the Internet, the audio-contents information piece corresponding to the demo-request signal received by the third means; and

fifth means for converting the audio-contents information piece into an analog signal, for changing the connection with the mobile telephone device from the packet-communication-based telephone-Internet connection service to the public telephone network, and for sending the analog signal toward the mobile telephone device via the public telephone network.

3. A system server as recited in claim 2, wherein the fifth means comprises 1) means for expanding the audio-contents information piece into an expanding-resultant signal, and 2) means for sending the expanding-resultant signal toward the mobile telephone device via the public telephone network.

4. A system server comprising:

first means for providing connection with a WWW server via the Internet, the WWW server storing compressed information representing audio contents;

second means for providing connection with a mobile telephone device via either a telephone-Internet connection service or a public telephone network;

third means for receiving a signal of a demo-request from the mobile telephone device via the telephone-Internet connection service;

fourth means responsive to the demo-request signal received by the third means for accessing the WWW server and taking out a piece of the audio-contents compressed information from the WWW server via the Internet, the audio-contents compressed information piece corresponding to the demo-request signal received by the third means;

fifth means for deciding whether or not the mobile telephone device has an information expanding function on the basis of the demo-request signal received by the third means;

sixth means for, in cases where the fifth means decides that the mobile telephone device has not the information expanding function, expanding the audio-contents compressed information piece into an expanding-resultant signal;

seventh means for sending the expanding-resultant signal toward the mobile telephone device via the public telephone network; and

eighth means for, in cases where the fifth means decides that the mobile telephone device has the information expanding function, sending the audio-contents compressed information piece toward the mobile telephone device via the telephone-Internet connection service.

5. In an audio-contents demo system comprising a WWW server storing information representing audio contents and a system server connectable with the WWW server via the Internet, a mobile telephone device comprising:

first means for providing connection with the system server via either a telephone-Internet connection service based on packet communication or a public telephone network;

second means for sending a signal of a demo-request toward the system server via the telephone-Internet connection service based on packet communication;

third means for changing connection with the system server from the packet-communication-based telephone-Internet connection service to the public telephone network, and for receiving an analog signal of audio contents from the system server via the public telephone network, the audio-contents signal being responsive to the demo-request signal; and

fourth means for playing back the audio contents represented by the analog signal received by the third means.

6. An audio-contents demo system comprising:

a WWW server storing information representing audio contents;

a system server connectable with the WWW server via the Internet;

a mobile telephone device connectable with the system server via either a telephone-Internet connection service or a public telephone network;

means provided in the mobile telephone device for sending a signal of a demo-request and an ID signal toward the system server via the telephone-Internet connection service, the ID signal being assigned to the mobile telephone device;

means provided in the system server for storing registered ID signals;

means provided in the system server for deciding whether or not the ID signal sent from the mobile telephone device is equal to one of the registered ID signals;

means provided in the system server and responsive to the demo-request signal sent from the mobile telephone device for, only in cases where the ID signal sent from the mobile telephone device is equal to one of the registered ID signals, accessing the WWW server and taking out a piece of the audio-contents information from the WWW server via the Internet, the audio-contents information piece corresponding to the demo-request signal sent from the mobile telephone device;

means provided in the system server for filtering the audio-contents information piece into a filtering-resultant signal according to a filtering characteristic determined by the ID signal sent from the mobile telephone device; and

means provided in the system server for sending the filtering-resultant signal toward the mobile telephone device via the public telephone network.

7. An audio-contents demo system as recited in claim 6, further comprising means provided in the system server for performing authentication with respect to the mobile telephone device in response to the ID signal sent therefrom.

8. A system server comprising:

first means for providing connection with a WWW server via the Internet, the WWW server storing information representing audio contents;

second means for providing connection with a mobile telephone device via either a telephone-Internet connection service based on packet communication or a public telephone network;

third means for receiving a signal of a demo-request and an ID signal from the mobile telephone device via the telephone-Internet connection service based on packet communication, the ID signal being assigned to the mobile telephone device;

fourth means for storing registered ID signals;

fifth means for deciding whether or not the ID signal received by the third means is equal to one of the registered ID signals stored by the fourth means;

sixth means responsive to the demo-request signal received by the third means for, only in cases where the fifth means decides that the ID signal received by the third means is equal to one of the registered ID signals stored by the fourth means, accessing the WWW server and taking out a piece of the audio-contents information from the WWW server via the Internet, the audio-contents information piece corresponding to the demo-request signal received by the third means; and

seventh means for changing connection with the mobile telephone device from the packet-communication-based telephone-Internet connection service to the public telephone network, for converting the audio-contents information into an analog signal, and for sending the analog signal toward the mobile telephone device via the public telephone network.

9. A system server as recited in claim 8, wherein the seventh means comprises 1) means for expanding the audio-contents information piece into an expanding-resultant signal, 2) means for filtering the expanding-resultant signal into a filtering-resultant signal according to a filtering characteristic determined by the ID signal received by the third means, and 3) means for sending the filtering-resultant signal toward the mobile telephone device via the public telephone network.

10. A system server comprising:

first means for providing connection with a WWW server via the Internet, the WWW server storing compressed information representing audio contents;

second means for providing connection with a mobile telephone device via either a telephone-Internet connection service or a public telephone network;

third means for receiving a signal of a demo-request and an ID signal from the mobile telephone device via the telephone-Internet connection service, the ID signal being assigned to the mobile telephone device;

fourth means for storing registered ID signals;

fifth means for deciding whether or not the ID signal received by the third means is equal to one of the registered ID signals stored by the fourth means;

sixth means responsive to the demo-request signal received by the third means for, only in cases where the fifth means decides that the ID signal received by the third means is equal to one of the registered ID signals stored by the fourth means, accessing the WWW server and taking out a piece of the audio-contents compressed information from the WWW server via the Internet, the audio-contents compressed information piece corresponding to the demo-request signal received by the third means;

seventh means for deciding whether or not the mobile telephone device has an information expanding function on the basis of the ID signal received by the third means;

eighth means for, in cases where the seventh means decides that the mobile telephone device has not the information expanding function, expanding the audio-contents compressed information piece into an expanding-resultant signal;

ninth means for sending the expanding-resultant signal toward the mobile telephone device via the public telephone network; and

tenth means for, in cases where the seventh means decides that the mobile telephone device has the information expanding function, sending the audio-contents compressed information piece toward the mobile telephone device via the telephone-Internet connection service.

11. An audio-contents demo system comprising:

a WWW server storing information representing audio contents;

a system server connectable with the WWW server via the Internet;

a mobile telephone device connectable with the system server via either a telephone-Internet connection service based on packet communication or a public telephone network;

means provided in the mobile telephone device for sending a signal of a demo-request and an ID signal toward the system server via the telephone-Internet connection service based on packet communication, the ID signal being assigned to the mobile telephone device;

means provided in the system server for storing registered ID signals;

means provided in the system server for deciding whether or not the ID signal sent from the mobile telephone device is equal to one of the registered ID signals;

means provided in the system server and responsive to the demo-request signal sent from the mobile telephone device for, only in cases where the ID signal sent from the mobile telephone device is equal to one of the registered ID signals, accessing the WWW server and taking out a piece of the audio-contents information from the WWW server via the Internet, the audio-contents information piece corresponding to the demo-request signal sent from the mobile telephone device; and

means provided in the system server for changing connection with the mobile telephone device from the packet-communication based telephone-Internet connection service to the public telephone service, and for sending a signal of a telephone number toward the mobile telephone device via the public telephone network, the telephone number corresponding to the audio-contents information piece.

12. A system server comprising:

first means for providing connection with a WWW server via the Internet, the WWW server storing compressed information representing audio contents;

second means for providing connection with a mobile telephone device via either a telephone-Internet connection service or a public telephone network;

third means for receiving a signal of a demo-request and an ID signal from the mobile telephone device via the telephone-Internet connection service, the ID signal being assigned to the mobile telephone device;

fourth means for storing registered ID signals;

fifth means for deciding whether or not the ID signal received by the third means is equal to one of the registered ID signals stored by the fourth means;

sixth means responsive to the demo-request signal received by the third means for, only in cases where the fifth means decides that the ID signal received by the third means is equal to one of the registered ID signals stored by the fourth means, accessing the WWW server and taking out a piece of the audio-contents compressed information from the WWW server via the Internet, the audio-contents compressed information piece corresponding to the demo-request signal received by the third means;

seventh means for deciding whether or not the mobile telephone device has an information expanding function on the basis of the ID signal received by the third means;

eighth means for, in cases where the seventh means decides that the mobile telephone device has not the information expanding function, sending a signal of a telephone number toward the mobile telephone device via the public telephone network, the telephone number corresponding to the audio-contents compressed information piece; and

ninth means for, in cases where the seventh means decides that the mobile telephone device has the information expanding function, sending the audio-contents compressed information piece toward the mobile telephone device via the telephone-Internet connection service.