System with wireless earphones
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1. A personal audio system comprising:
- a digital audio player that outputs digital audio;
a paired set of earphones to be worn simultaneously by a user, wherein each earphone in the paired set comprises an acoustic transducer for producing sound to be heard by the user; and
wherein at least one of the earphones in the paired set comprises;
a transceiver circuit that is in wireless communication with the digital audio player via a first wireless network for receiving wirelessly via the first wireless network the digital audio output by the digital audio player such that the acoustic transducers of the paired set of earphones produce sound from the received digital audio to be heard by the user; and
at least one user control accessible to the user at an exterior of the at least one earphone, wherein upon activation of the at least one user control by the user, metadata for a song played by the pair set of earphones is caused to be transmitted wirelessly via a second wireless network to a remote server connected to the Internet.
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A system comprising a wireless earphone set and a client computing device, both of which are communicable with a host server via the Internet. The host server stores configuration parameters for the wireless earphone set that are transmittable to the wireless earphone set via the Internet, and that are configurable by an authenticated user of the client computing device via the host server to generate updated configuration parameters for the wireless earphone set. The updated configuration parameters for the wireless earphone set are transmitted by the host server to the wireless earphone set via the Internet.
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1. A personal audio system comprising:
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a digital audio player that outputs digital audio; a paired set of earphones to be worn simultaneously by a user, wherein each earphone in the paired set comprises an acoustic transducer for producing sound to be heard by the user; and wherein at least one of the earphones in the paired set comprises; a transceiver circuit that is in wireless communication with the digital audio player via a first wireless network for receiving wirelessly via the first wireless network the digital audio output by the digital audio player such that the acoustic transducers of the paired set of earphones produce sound from the received digital audio to be heard by the user; and at least one user control accessible to the user at an exterior of the at least one earphone, wherein upon activation of the at least one user control by the user, metadata for a song played by the pair set of earphones is caused to be transmitted wirelessly via a second wireless network to a remote server connected to the Internet. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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