Process for ordering a selection in advance, digital system and jukebox for embodiment of the process

• US 8,275,668 B2
• Filed: 06/23/2010
• Issued: 09/25/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 02/23/2000
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: TouchTunes Music Corporation (The Octave Music Group, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: TouchTunes Music Corporation (The Octave Music Group, Inc.)
• Inventors: Nathan, Guy, Dion, Dominique, Mastronardi, Tony
• Primary Examiner(s): Garg, Yogesh C
• Application Number:
  US12/801,744
• Publication Number:
  US 20100269066A1
• Time in Patent Office: 825 Days
• Field of Search: 705/26.1, 705/27.1, 369/30.06, 725/87, 725/135, 709/205
• US Class Current: 705/26.1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/1824 implemented using Network-attached Storage [NAS] architecture distributed or networked storage systems G06F3/067; protocols for distributed storage of data in a network H04L67/1097
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/68 Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/955 using information identifiers, e.g. uniform resource locators [URL]
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/40 Authorisation, e.g. identification of payer or payee, verification of customer or shop credentials; Review and approval of payers, e.g. check credit lines or negative lists
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0601 Electronic shopping [e-shopping]
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0613 Third-party assisted
• 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: G07F 17/16 for devices exhibiting advertisements, announcements, pictures or the like
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/305 for record players
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 19/08 by using devices external to the driving mechanisms, e.g. coin-freed switch coin actuated mechanisms G07F5/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/125 involving control of end-device applications over a network

Abstract

This invention relates to a process for ordering a selection in advance, characterized in that it includes a step in which a menu is displayed followed by a selection in this menu, to make specific requests and particularly: a step displaying the event for which the advance order of a selection is made, and then selection of the event; a step displaying the identity of destination equipment on which the selection is to be played, and then selection of this equipment; a step displaying the date and time at which the selection is to be made on the destination equipment; a step in which particular requests are recorded and downloaded onto a file only after payment has been verified.

Claims

1. A device connected to a host server via a communication network, comprising:

a user terminal for ordering, in advance, a selection to be played on at least one destination device connectable via the communication network to the host server, wherein each said destination device and said server each comprise a request processing module; and

a display configured to display a user interface including a menu for specifying a selection to be played, and a future time and date at which the selection is to be played, wherein the display is further configured to display an indication of the destination device on which the selection is to be played, the selection to be played, the date and time at which the selection is to be played, and an event for which the order of a selection is made in advance,

wherein the user terminal comprises at least one processor configured to execute instructions that, when executed, at least generate a dedicated file listing the specific requests and all information necessary to process said specific requests once payment has been made and verified, and transfer said dedicated file to the server,

wherein the dedicated file is downloadable from the server to the specified destination device on which the selection is to be played, and

wherein at least one specified destination device on which the selection is not the user terminal.

2. The device according to claim 1, wherein the user interface is programmed to enable the user to specify a message for later display.

3. The device according to claim 2, wherein the message is included in the dedicated file.

4. The device according to claim 2, wherein the user interface is programmed to enable the user to specify a message for later display select a predefined message and to specify a custom message.

5. The device according to claim 1, wherein the user interface operates under the control of the server over the communication network.

6. The device according to claim 2, wherein the message is displayable on the specified destination device.

7. The device according to claim 1, wherein the specified destination device is programmed to determine whether a current date and time thereon matches the date and time specified in the dedicated file.

8. The device of claim 7, wherein the specified destination device is further programmed to cause the selection to be played in the event that there is a match between the current date and time thereon and the date and time specified in the dedicated file.

9. The device according to claim 1, wherein the dedicated file is recorded directly on the destination device when the user'"'"'s terminal is the destination device on which the selection is to be played.

10. The device according to claim 1, wherein the dedicated file is not a part of the selection to be played.