Electronic music marker device delayed notification

• US 8,271,354 B2
• Filed: 07/20/2006
• Issued: 09/18/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 08/17/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• 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: Deguchi, Yuichiro
• Primary Examiner(s): HAQ, NAEEM U
• Application Number:
  US11/490,991
• Publication Number:
  US 20060259375A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,252 Days
• Field of Search: 705/26.1, 705/26.2, 705/26.25, 705/26.3, 705/26.35, 705/26.4, 705 2641- 2644, 705/26.5, 705 2661- 2664, 705/26.7, 705/26.8, 705/26.81, 705/26.82, 705/26.9, 705/27.1, 705/27.2
• US Class Current: 705/26.8
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/06 Buying, selling or leasing transactions
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0601 Electronic shopping [e-shopping]
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0633 Lists, e.g. purchase orders, compilation or processing
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0641 Shopping interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 20/28 Arrangements for simultaneous broadcast of plural pieces of information
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/04 specially adapted for terminals or networks with limited capabilities; specially adapted for terminal portability
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/329 in the application layer [OSI layer 7]

Abstract

Method and system for providing a notification function for bookmarked music clips broadcast over a radio station to provide to a user of an electronic music marking device such that when the playlist for the bookmarked music clips is available, the user can access information corresponding to the bookmarked music clips, while when the playlist for the bookmarked music clips is not available, the user is notified that the playlist is unavailable, and when the playlist becomes available, the an email is generated and transmitted to the user informing the user that the playlist corresponding to the user'"'"'s bookmarked music clips is available, and further, the email may include a hypertext link attachment which may be configured to automatically re-direct the user'"'"'s browser terminal to display the playlist corresponding to the bookmarked music clips on the user'"'"'s electronic music marker device account.

Claims

1. A method of data marking a time specific event, comprising:

receiving one or more data marks within the memory of an electronic device;

wherein said data marks have only a time stamp as an event identifier providing date and time information which is stored during a time specific event;

searching for one or more playlists corresponding to said received one or more data marks on a computer device having an associated memory;

generating a message regarding availability of information corresponding to the time specific event; and

transmitting said message to a user.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein each of said received one or more data marks includes said date and time information corresponding to one or more broadcast music clips from one or more radio stations.

3. The method of claim 1, further including periodically receiving broadcast music playlists.

4. The method of claim 3, further including storing said received broadcast music playlists.

5. The method of claim 3, wherein said periodically receiving step includes one of receiving said broadcast music playlists within ten minutes from termination of corresponding music clip broadcasts, and receiving said broadcast music playlists within a predetermined elapsed time period.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein said predetermined elapsed time period includes one of 12 hours and 24 hours for each day.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein said generated message includes a user playlist including information corresponding to said received one or more data marks.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein said generated message includes an email notification.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein said email notification includes a playlist unavailable message.

10. The method of claim 8, wherein said email notification includes a hypertext link attachment.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein said hypertext link attachment includes a user playlist including information corresponding to the one or more data marks.

12. The method of claim 11, further including storing said one or more data marks and said playlists.

13. An apparatus for communicating playlist information associated with receipt of data marks for a time specific event, comprising:

a server terminal having a computer controller and associated memory;

programming executable on said server terminal for,

receiving one or more data marks from a data marking device configured for communication with said server terminal;

wherein said data marks were stored within the memory of said data marking device in response to an event occurrence, and in which said data marks have only a time stamp as an event identifier providing date and time information which is stored during a time specific event;

searching for one or more playlists corresponding to said received one or more data marks on said server terminal;

generating a message regarding availability of information corresponding to the time specific event; and

transmitting said message to a user.

14. The apparatus recited in claim 13, further comprising programming executable on said terminal server for generating and sending a playlist unavailable message to user when the playlist has not been found during the search.

15. The apparatus recited in claim 13, wherein each of said received one or more data marks includes time stamp and date stamp information corresponding to one or more broadcast music clips.

16. The apparatus recited in claim 13, further comprising programming executable on said terminal server for periodically receiving broadcast music playlists within said terminal server for searching for one or more playlists.

17. The apparatus recited in claim 16, further comprising programming executable on said terminal server for storing said received broadcast music playlists.

18. The apparatus recited in claim 13, wherein said generated message comprises a user playlist including information corresponding to said received one or more data marks.

19. An apparatus for communicating playlist information associated with receipt of data marks for a time specific event, comprising:

a server terminal having a computer controller and associated memory;

programming executable on said server terminal for,

receiving one or more data marks from a data marking device configured for communication with said server terminal;

wherein said data marks were stored within the memory of the data marking device in response to an event occurrence, and in which said data marks have only a time stamp as an event identifier providing date and time information which is stored during a time specific event;

wherein each said data mark is an event identifier which identifies a broadcast music clip as an event when played by a broadcaster;

searching for one or more playlists corresponding to said received one or more data marks on said server terminal;

generating a message regarding availability of information corresponding to the time specific event; and

transmitting said message to a user through an email notification.

20. The apparatus recited in claim 19, further comprising programming executable on said terminal server for generating and sending a playlist unavailable message to user when the playlist has not been found during the search.