Hybrid playlist

• US 8,155,505 B2
• Filed: 01/15/2009
• Issued: 04/10/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 06/06/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Original Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Inventors: Lemay, Steve, Pisula, Charles, Kelly, Sean, Coffman, Patrick, Chaudhri, Imran A.
• Primary Examiner(s): Chevalier, Robert
• Application Number:
  US12/354,632
• Publication Number:
  US 20090304359A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,181 Days
• Field of Search: 386/281, 386/282, 386/285, 386/323, 386/324, 386/337, 386/362
• US Class Current: 386/281
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/105 of operating discs
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/329 on a disc [VTOC]
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/34 Indicating arrangements indicating means incorporated in magazine or cassette G11B23/046 and G11B23/0875; indicating measured values in general G01D
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72442 for playing music files
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/41407 embedded in a portable device, e.g. video client on a mobile phone, PDA, laptop constructional details of equipment or arrangements specially adapted for portable computer application G06F1/1626; arrangements specially adapted for mobile receivers in broadcast systems H04H20/57
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4622 Retrieving content or additional data from different sources, e.g. from a broadcast channel and the Internet web site content organization and management for information retrieval from the Internet G06F16/958; transmission by internet of broadcast information H04H60/82; stock exchange data over packet-switching network H04L12/1804; push services including data channel over packet-switching network H04L12/1859
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8113 comprising music, e.g. song in MP3 format
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/816 involving special video data, e.g 3D video
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/46 for receiving on more than one standard at will deflecting circuits of multi-standard receivers H04N3/27

Abstract

Methods, systems, and computer-readable medium for playing media files of a playlist on a mobile device. The media files of the playlist include one or more audio files and one or more video files. Playing a first video file of the playlist on the mobile device includes playing an audio component and a video component of the first video file.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

playing a first video file of a playlist on a mobile device, the playlist including one or more audio files and one or more video files, wherein each of the one or more audio files and the one or more video files are separately playable,

where playing the first video file of the one or more video files includes playing on the mobile device an audio component and a video component of the first video file; and

playing a first audio file of the one or more audio files, where playing the audio file includes determining whether to display an image in a presentation mode or a plurality of images in a coverflow mode based on a detected orientation of the mobile device and whether the first video file was played prior to the first audio file.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

playing the first audio file in the presentation mode when the mobile device has a portrait orientation.

3. The method of claim 2, further comprising:

playing the first audio file in a presentation mode with a landscape orientation when the first video file was played with a landscape orientation before the first audio file is played.

4. The method of claim 2, further comprising:

when the first video file is played after the first audio file is played, playing the first audio file in a presentation mode when the device is detected to have a portrait orientation or in a coverflow mode when the device is detected to have a landscape orientation.

5. The method of claim 1, where the one or more video files include at least one of a movie, a television show, a music video, or a video podcast.

6. The method of claim 1, where the playlist is determined by a user of the mobile device.

7. The method of claim 1, where the mobile device includes a multi-touch-sensitive display.

8. A system comprising:

a processor and a memory operable to perform operations including;

playing a first video file of a playlist on a mobile device, the playlist including one or more audio files and one or more video files, wherein each of the one or more audio files and the one or more video files are separately playable, where playing the first video file of the one or more video files includes playing on the mobile device an audio component and a video component of the first video file; and

playing a first audio file of the one or more audio files, where playing the audio file includes determining whether to display an image in a presentation mode or a plurality of images in a coverflow mode based on a detected orientation of the mobile device and whether the first video file was played prior to the first audio file.

9. The system of claim 8, further operable to perform operations comprising:

playing the first audio file in the presentation mode when the mobile device has a portrait orientation.

10. The system of claim 9, further operable to perform operations comprising:

playing the first audio file in a presentation mode with a landscape orientation when the first video file was played with a landscape orientation before the first audio file is played.

11. The system of claim 9, further operable to perform operations comprising:

when the first video file is played after the first audio file is played, playing the first audio file in a presentation mode when the device is detected to have a portrait orientation or a coverflow mode when the device is detected to have a landscape orientation.

12. The system of claim 8, where the one or more video files include at least one of a movie, a television show, a music video, or a video podcast.

13. The system of claim 8, where the playlist is determined by a user of the mobile device.

14. A non-transitory computer readable medium encoded with a computer program, operable to cause data processing apparatus to perform operations comprising:

playing a first video file of a playlist on a mobile device, the playlist including one or more audio files and one or more video files, wherein each of the one or more audio files and the one or more video files are separately playable,

where playing the first video file of the one or more video files includes playing on the mobile device an audio component and a video component of the first video file; and

playing a first audio file of the one or more audio files, where playing the audio file includes determining whether to display an image in a presentation mode or a plurality of images in a coverflow mode based on a detected orientation of the mobile device and whether the first video file was played prior to the first audio file.

15. The non-transitory computer readable medium encoded with the computer program of claim 14, further operable to perform operations comprising:

playing the first audio file in the presentation mode when the mobile device has a portrait orientation.

16. The non-transitory computer readable medium encoded with the computer program of claim 15, further operable to perform operations comprising:

playing the first audio file in a presentation mode with a landscape orientation when the first video file was played with a landscape orientation before the first audio file is played.

17. The non-transitory computer readable medium encoded with the computer program of claim 15, further operable to perform operations comprising:

when the first video file is played after the first audio file is played, playing the first audio file in a presentation mode when the device is detected to have a portrait orientation or a coverflow mode when the device is detected to have a landscape orientation.

18. The non-transitory computer readable medium encoded with the computer program of claim 14, where the one or more video files include at least one of a movie, a television show, a music video, or a video podcast.

19. The non-transitory computer readable medium encoded with the computer program of claim 14, where the playlist is determined by a user of the mobile device.