Method and apparatus for portable digital entertainment system
First Claim
1. A dedicated cellular system for distribution by microwave transmission of digital music and video games by microwave transmission data comprising music and/or video games, comprising:
- a microwave cellular tower capable of including a microwave cellular transmitter/receiver for transmitting and receiving a plurality of digital music and video games data by microwave transmissions transmission, each digital data transmission encoding a music selection or a video game;
a storage unit of user selectable music and/or video games connected to said microwave cellular tower,;
a selection processor coupled directly to said microwave cellular transmitter/receiver for receiving a transmission from said microwave cellular transmitter/receiver and managing exchange of user selectable music and/or video games between said storage unit and said microwave cellular tower, by retrieval from the storage unit a given music selection or a given video game selection and transmitting, as digital data, said given music selection or said video game selection to the microwave cellular transmitter/receiver;
anda plurality of dedicated, user portable digital cellular devices exchanging digital each including a microwave transmitter/receiver for transmitting by microwave transmission requests in response to user selection of said user selectable music and/or video games as digital data transmissions to said microwave cellular transmitter/receiver of said microwave cellular tower and for receiving by microwave transmission selected music and/or video games transmissions with as digital data transmissions from said microwave cellular transmitter/receiver of said microwave cellular tower in response to user selection of said user selectable music and/or video games.
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Abstract
An improved method and apparatus for portable digital entertainment system which melds direct microwave communications with digital technology to provide a system for “on demand” distribution of digital data, such as songs or video games. The apparatus includes a microwave cellular tower capable of transmitting and receiving a plurality of digital transmissions, a storage unit of user selectable songs and games coupled to the microwave cellular tower through a selection processor for managing the exchange of song and game selections between the storage unit and the microwave cellular tower, and a plurality of user portable digital cellular devices exchanging digitally encoded transmissions with the microwave cellular tower in response to a user'"'"'s song or game selection request. The portable digital cellular devices include a liquid crystal display window which allows a user to select a desired song to be heard or game to be played. This selection by the user causes the portable digital cellular device, which includes a built in microwave cellular transmitter/receiver to transmit a signal to a microwave digital cellular tower. This microwave digital cellular tower is coupled to a mass storage unit comprised of solid state memory chips which contains hundreds, perhaps thousands of musical or game selections. The microwave digital cellular tower also includes a computer or central processing unit to control the retrieval of the desired musical or game selection from the mass storage unit. When the Data Storage Communications Tower receives a selection request from a portable digital cellular device, the computer bills a customer'"'"'s account, retrieves the selection from the mass storage unit and directs the selection to the microwave digital cellular tower for transmission to the user'"'"'s portable digital cellular device.
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20 Claims
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1. A dedicated cellular system for distribution by microwave transmission of digital music and video games by microwave transmission data comprising music and/or video games, comprising:
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a microwave cellular tower capable of including a microwave cellular transmitter/receiver for transmitting and receiving a plurality of digital music and video games data by microwave transmissions transmission, each digital data transmission encoding a music selection or a video game; a storage unit of user selectable music and/or video games connected to said microwave cellular tower,; a selection processor coupled directly to said microwave cellular transmitter/receiver for receiving a transmission from said microwave cellular transmitter/receiver and managing exchange of user selectable music and/or video games between said storage unit and said microwave cellular tower, by retrieval from the storage unit a given music selection or a given video game selection and transmitting, as digital data, said given music selection or said video game selection to the microwave cellular transmitter/receiver;
anda plurality of dedicated, user portable digital cellular devices exchanging digital each including a microwave transmitter/receiver for transmitting by microwave transmission requests in response to user selection of said user selectable music and/or video games as digital data transmissions to said microwave cellular transmitter/receiver of said microwave cellular tower and for receiving by microwave transmission selected music and/or video games transmissions with as digital data transmissions from said microwave cellular transmitter/receiver of said microwave cellular tower in response to user selection of said user selectable music and/or video games. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 19, 20)
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14. A method of operating transmitting and receiving digital data by microwave transmission using a dedicated cellular system for distribution of digital music and video games by microwave transmission, the digital data comprising music and/or video games, the dedicated cellular system including a microwave cellular tower including a microwave cellular transmitter/receiver capable of transmitting and receiving a plurality of digital transmissions with a storage unit of user selectable music and/or video games connected to said microwave cellular tower, a selection processor for managing exchange of user selectable music and video games between said storage unit and said microwave cellular tower adapted for digital data exchange with the microwave cellular transmitter/receiver of the tower and the storage unit, and a plurality of dedicated, user portable digital cellular devices for exchanging digital music and/or video games as digital transmissions with said microwave cellular tower in response to user selection of said user selectable music and/or video games, said method comprising the steps of:
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coupling directly the selection processor and the microwave cellular transmitter/receiver; selecting a given music or video game using the dedicated, user portable digital cellular device; transmitting a digital data signal by microwave transmission from a the dedicated, user portable digital cellular device to a the microwave cellular tower in response to a user request, selection; receiving said digital data signal transmitted by microwave transmission from said the dedicated, user portable digital cellular device to said at the microwave cellular transmitter/receiver of the microwave cellular tower,; processingusing the selection processor to process said digital data signal by a selection processorreceived as a microwave transmission from the microwave cellular transmitter/receiver of the microwave cellular tower for managing the exchange of user selectable music and video games between a storage unit and said microwave cellular tower,by instructing the storage unit to retrieve the user selected music and/or video game; retrieving a user selected music or video game from said storage unit in response to instructions from said selection processor, and transmitting said, as digital data, the retrieved user selected music and/or video game from said the selection processor to the microwave cellular tower to said dedicated user portable digital cellular device transmitter/receiver of the microwave cellular tower; and transmitting, as digital data, the retrieved user selected music and/or video game from the microwave cellular transmitter/receiver of the microwave cellular tower to the dedicated, user portable digital cellular device. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16, 17, 18)
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