Client-server bidirectional synchronization via browser plug in for an XM radio system

• US 7,210,142 B2
• Filed: 08/31/2001
• Issued: 04/24/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 08/31/2001
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.), Sony Electronics Inc. (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.), Sony Electronics Inc. (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Abrahams, Marc, Hilt, Patrick
• Primary Examiner(s): Khatri; Anil
• Application Number:
  US09/944,655
• Publication Number:
  US 20030043184A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,062 Days
• Field of Search: 717/11, 717171-172, 717/176, 713/150, 713/159, 709/203, 701200-201
• US Class Current: 717/172
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/95 Retrieval from the web

Abstract

An XM radio system, a browser plug-in for bidirectional communication in the XM radio system, and method for bidirectional communication between an XM radio receiver, a first computing device and a second computing device is provided. The XM radio system includes an XM radio receiver communicatively connected to a first computing device, a second computing device communicatively connected to the first computing device and a computer program stored on the first computing device. Unresolved bookmarks are transferred from the first computing device to second computing device via the Internet and the resolved bookmarks are bidirectionally communicated from the second computing device to the first computing device via Internet and does not trigger a fire wall.

Claims

1. A method for obtaining information related to an XM radio broadcast, comprising:

receiving at a client device, from an XM radio, service information related to an XM radio broadcast, the service information containing at least ant of;

product identification, artist name, song name, broadcast name, the client device being configured with a firewall;

receiving at the client device, from a user input device, a signal representing the service information;

sending at least portions of the service information to a server computer over the Internet;

correlating the service information to information related to the service information;

receiving, at a client browser plug-in associated with the client device, at least an identification of an Internet site ax which the information related to the service information can be located; and

using the identification of an Internet site, causing a browser associated with the client browser plug-in to retrieve the information related to the service information without causing the firewall to block the information related to the service information.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the identification of an Internet site is received from an application associated with the client device.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the correlating act is undertaken at the server computer.