Mobile wireless internet portable radio

• US 8,594,076 B2
• Filed: 05/20/2011
• Issued: 11/26/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 10/29/1998
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Pineapple34, LLC
• Original Assignee: Lonecraft Limited LLC (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Inventors: Boys, Donald Robert Martin
• Primary Examiner(s): ISLAM, MOHAMMAD K
• Application Number:
  US13/112,998
• Publication Number:
  US 20110223892A1
• Time in Patent Office: 921 Days
• Field of Search: 370/352, 370/401, 379/93.07, 455 301- 306, 455/186.1, 455418-420, 455/412, 705/26, 705/27, 705/51, 725/91, 725/134
• US Class Current: 370/352
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 20/72 of terrestrial networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/85 which are mobile communication networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]

Abstract

An Internet-capable radio has a communication port for connection to a modem, a connection function for connecting to the Internet upon user initiation while connected to the modem, sound circuitry for rendering audio data packets received over the Internet as analog audio output, and for delivering the audio output to one or more speaker ports, two or more stored hyperlinks addressing Internet broadcast servers; and a user input adapted to enable a user to select among the stored hyperlinks. Selection of one of the stored hyperlinks by the user input invokes the hyperlink and connects the radio to the server addressed by the hyperlink, initiating thereby an audio data stream as data packets from the broadcast server to the radio, and wherein the radio renders the data stream as analog audio data delivered to the one or more speaker ports. The user input in preferred embodiments has a plurality of pushbuttons associated with hyperlinks, which can be asserted by activating a pushbutton. In some embodiments a directory server is used for editing user profiles and programming connected Internet-capable radios.

Claims

1. A mobile unit, comprising:

circuitry configured to facilitate provision of a telephone call over a cellular network;

circuitry configured to receive Internet radio over a data component of the cellular network from a server, wherein the received Internet radio is provided by Internet Protocol (IP) data stream packets and the received Internet radio is provided in a mobile software application on the mobile unit;

circuitry configured to provide one-touch user-specific radio stations in the mobile software application to access radio stations on the server; and

circuitry configured to provide an editable user profile via the mobile software application, wherein the one-touch user specific radio stations are provided based in part on the editable user profile.

2. The mobile unit of claim 1, further comprising circuitry configured to transmit a user preference to the server and to receive, over the data component of the cellular network, a list of radio stations from the server based on the transmitted user preference.

3. The mobile unit of claim 1, further comprising circuitry configured to receive a play mix from the server based on the editable user profile.

4. The mobile unit of claim 1, wherein the server is a broadcast server.

5. The mobile unit of claim 1, wherein the specific radio stations are subscribe-able.

6. A mobile unit, comprising:

a non-transitory memory configured to store computer-readable instructions; and

one or more processors, coupled to the memory and configured to, in response to execution of the instructions, cause the mobile unit to;

facilitate provision of a telephone call over a cellular network;

receive Internet radio over a data component of the cellular network from a server, wherein the received Internet radio is provided by data stream packets of an Internet transmission protocol;

provide the received Internet radio in a software application on the mobile unit;

provide one-touch user-specific user-interface elements in the software application to access Internet radio stations on the server; and

provide an editable user profile via the mobile software application, wherein the one-touch user-specific user-interface elements are provided based in part on the editable user profile.

7. The mobile unit of claim 6, wherein the one or more processors are further configured to transmit a user preference to the server and to receive, over the data component of the cellular network, a list of Internet radio stations from the server based on the transmitted user preference.

8. The mobile unit of claim 6, wherein the one or more processors are further configured to receive a play mix from the server based on the editable user profile.

9. The mobile unit of claim 6, wherein the server is a broadcast server.

10. The mobile unit of claim 6, wherein the user-specific user-interface elements are user programmable to access one or more other radio stations.

11. The mobile unit of claim 6, wherein the processors are further configured to subscribe the mobile unit to the Internet radio stations.

12. A method performed by a mobile device, the method comprising:

facilitating provision of a telephone call, by the mobile device, over a cellular network;

receiving Internet radio, by the mobile device, over a data component of the cellular network from a server, wherein the received Internet radio is provided by data stream packets of an Internet transmission protocol;

providing, by the mobile device, the received Internet radio in a software application;

providing, by the mobile device, one-touch user-specific user-interface elements in the software application to access radio stations on the server; and

providing, by the mobile device, an editable user profile via the mobile software application, wherein the one-touch user-specific user-interface elements are provided based in part on the editable user profile.

13. The method of claim 12, further comprising transmitting, by the mobile device, a user preference to the server and the mobile device receiving, over the data component of the cellular network, a list of radio stations from the server based on the transmitted user preference.

14. The method of claim 12, further comprising receiving, by the mobile device, a play mix from the server based on the editable user profile.

15. The method of claim 12, wherein the server is a broadcast server.

16. The method of claim 12, wherein the user-specific user-interface elements are user programmable.

17. The method of claim 12, further comprising subscribing the mobile device to the radio stations.

18. An article of manufacture, comprising:

a non-transitory computer-readable medium method having stored thereon, computer-executable instructions that, if executed by a mobile device, cause the mobile device to perform one or more operations including;

facilitating provision of a telephone call over a cellular network;

receiving Internet radio over a data component of the cellular network from a server, wherein the received Internet radio is provided by data stream packets of an Internet transmission protocol;

providing the received Internet radio in a software application on the mobile device;

providing one-touch user-specific user-interface elements in the software application to access radio stations on the server; and

providing an editable user profile via the mobile software application, wherein the one-touch user-specific user-interface elements are provided based in part on the editable user profile.

19. The article of manufacture of claim 18, wherein the operations further include transmitting a user preference to the server and receiving, over the data component of the cellular network, a list of radio stations from the server based on the transmitted user preference.

20. The article of manufacture of claim 18, wherein the operations further include receiving a play mix from the server based on the editable user profile.

21. The article of manufacture of claim 18, wherein the user-specific user-interface elements are user programmable.