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Network-assisted remote media listening

  • US 7,886,072 B2
  • Filed: 06/12/2008
  • Issued: 02/08/2011
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/12/2008
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A remote listening server, comprising:

  • a central media repository configured to store a plurality of digital media assets; and

    a media listening server configured to maintain media playback information for each of a plurality of users, and configured to provide media playback information of a given user from said media listening server to at least one client device associated withother user, where the media playback information identifies a particular digital media asset that is being played at a client device of the given user, wherein at least one of said media listening server and said central media repository are configured to facilitate playing of the particular digital media asset at a client device associated with the other user, whereby the other user can in effect hear the particular digital media asset that is playing at the client device of the given user.

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