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

• US 7,904,902 B2
• Filed: 01/24/2007
• Issued: 03/08/2011
• 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:
  US11/657,365
• Publication Number:
  US 20070118833A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,504 Days
• Field of Search: 717174-178, 709203-204
• US Class Current: 717/178
• 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 system, comprising:

at least one client device application;

at least one XM radio associated with the client device application and receiving service information related to an XM radio broadcast;

at least one user input device for generating a signal representing the service information;

at least one browser associated with the client device application for sending at least portions of the service information to a server computer over the Internet;

at least one client browser portion associated with the client device application and accessing at least an identification of an Internet site at which information correlated to the service information can be accessed, the browser portion using the identification of an Internet site to cause the browser to retrieve the information correlated to the service information.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the client device is configured with a firewall, and the browser portion is configured such that the information correlated to the service information is retrieved without triggering the firewall.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the service information contains at least one of:

product identification, artist name, song name, broadcast name.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the identification of an Internet site is received from the client device application.

5. The system of claim 1, comprising a server computer communicating with the client device application over the Internet and generating the information correlated to the service information.