Method, apparatus, and system for delivering contents

• US 6,947,705 B2
• Filed: 03/14/2002
• Issued: 09/20/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 07/05/2001
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Tsuchiuchi, Takayasu
• Primary Examiner(s): Chin, Vivian
• Assistant Examiner(s): Dao, Minh D.
• Application Number:
  US10/097,003
• Publication Number:
  US 20030008618A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,286 Days
• Field of Search: 455/3.06, 455/3.01, 455/3.03, 455/3.05, 455/556.1, 455/557, 455/344, 455/421, 455/412.1, 455/566, 455/569.1, 455/41.2, 455/41.3
• US Class Current: 455/3.06
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/06 Buying, selling or leasing transactions
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1101 Session protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/612 for unicast

Abstract

There is provided a music delivery method of delivering contents from a music delivery apparatus to a playback apparatus. Guidance information associated with music data is sent from the music delivery apparatus via a radio communication to the music playback apparatus within a communication range. The music data is sent from the music delivery apparatus via a radio communication to the music playback apparatus in accordance with an instruction from the music playback apparatus that received the guidance information.

Claims

1. A music delivery method of delivering contents from a music delivery apparatus equipped in a public space, said method comprising:

seeking, by the music delivery apparatus having a short-distance radio communication device, a music playback apparatus having a same type of short-distance radio communication device as the music delivery apparatus and present within a short-distance radio communication range;

trying to establish a connection to the music playback apparatus by the music delivery apparatus;

sending guidance information associated with music data from the music delivery apparatus via a short-distance radio communication to the music playback apparatus within a radio communication range when the connection has been successfully established;

sending the music data from the music delivery apparatus via a short-distance radio communication to the music playback apparatus in accordance with an instruction from the music playback apparatus that received the guidance information; and

displaying items for individually identifying music playback apparatuses within the communication range on a screen of the music delivery apparatus,

wherein the guidance information is sent via a short-distance radio communication to the music playback apparatus corresponding to an item designated from among the items displayed on the screen.