INTERACTIVE NETWORKED HEADPHONES

• US 20130339859A1
• Filed: 03/13/2013
• Published: 12/19/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 06/15/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Muzik, LLC
• Original Assignee: Muzik, LLC
• Inventors: Hardi, Jason
• Application Number:
  US13/802,217
• Publication Number:
  US 20130339859A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/728
• CPC Class Codes: B62D 1/04 Hand wheels
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/169 the I/O peripheral being an integrated pointing device, e.g. trackball in the palm rest area, mini-joystick integrated between keyboard keys, touch pads or touch stripes G06F1/1643 takes precedence; constructional details of pointing devices G06F3/033
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1694 the I/O peripheral being a single or a set of motion sensors for pointer control or gesture input obtained by sensing movements of the portable computer
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/016 Input arrangements with force or tactile feedback as computer generated output to the user
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/017 Gesture based interaction, e.g. based on a set of recognized hand gestures interaction based on gestures traced on a digitiser G06F3/04883
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/033 Pointing devices displaced or positioned by the user , e.g. mice, trackballs, pens or joysticks; Accessories therefor digitisers characterised by the transducing means G06F3/041
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/041 Digitisers, e.g. for touch screens or touch pads, characterised by the transducing means
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/165 Management of the audio stream, e.g. setting of volume, audio stream path
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/105 of operating discs
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/34 Indicating arrangements indicating means incorporated in magazine or cassette G11B23/046 and G11B23/0875; indicating measured values in general G01D
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/385 Transceivers carried on the body, e.g. in helmets
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/611 for multicast or broadcast systems for broadcast or conference H04L12/18; arrangements for broadcast or distribution combined with broadcast H04H20/00; arrangements for broadcast applications with a direct linkage to broadcast information or to broadcast space-time H04H60/00; selective distribution of broadcast services, e.g. multimedia broadcast multicast service [MBMS], H04W4/06
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/75 Media network packet handling
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/6066 including a wireless connection
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 1/1041 Mechanical or electronic switches, or control elements switches in general H01H
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/025 using location based information parameters
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/80 Services using short range communication, e.g. near-field communication [NFC], radio-frequency identification [RFID] or low energy communication

Abstract

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for connecting an interactive wearable device with a network. In one aspect, a method includes loading content from a playlist; recognizing contextual information relating to the content; determining the location of the user; requesting supplemental content via a network based on the contextual information and the location; displaying supplemental information to a user; interacting with the supplemental information at least in part via an interactive headphone.

Claims

1. A computer implemented method of remote access to a hosted application comprises the steps of:

recording a user input from a sensor on a remote device;

associating the recorded user input with a specific command;

storing the command-input association;

receiving a user input on a sensor on a remote device;

transmitting the user input from the remote device to a base device;

receiving at the base device the user input transmitted from the remote device;

comparing the input with the previously recorded inputs for association with a command specific to an application running on or accessible by the base device;

matching the user input to the desired command; and

executing the command.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein execution of the command initiates network functionality allowing user interaction with content available over a network.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein the wireless means is a Bluetooth network.

13. The method of claim 1, wherein the physical input is the actuation of a button or switch.

14. The method of claim 1, wherein the user input is motion detected input, a touch sensor input, or an audio input.

15. The method of claim 1, wherein:

the user input is an audio input and the audio input is compared to a library for translation to different languages; and

wherein the executed command broadcasts a translated input to a network.

16. The method of claim 15 wherein the network comprises a second user headphone.

17. The method of claim 1 wherein the input is an audio input and the input is compared to an audio file library to determine the accuracy of the audio input to a standard.

18. The method of claim 17 wherein the audio input is a linguistic phrase and the linguistic phrase is compared to a standard to determine accuracy of pronunciation.

19. The method of claim 1 wherein the user input indicates a preference for content by the user and the command executed broadcasts the preference over a network.

20. The method of claim 19 further comprising:

matching multiple user preferences broadcast over a network using the method of claim 1; and

allowing communication between matched users.

3. A method comprising:

recording a first physical input using a sensor positioned on a remote device;

translating the first physical input to a computer recognizable command;

sending the command to a base device;

executing the command on the base device.

4. The method of claim 3 wherein the remote device is a headphone.

5. The method of claim 4 wherein the input is made via a touch pad or touch sensor.

6. The method of claim 3 wherein the base device comprises a smart phone, mobile phone, cellular phone, mobile device, tablet computer, laptop computer, mp3 player, desktop computer, e-book reader, video game console, or a networked display.

7. The method of claim 3 wherein the execution of the command creates information relating to content on the base station, such information available to other users over a network.

8. The method of claim 3, wherein the command comprises instructions to interact with a social media website or a content distribution website.

9. The method of claim 3, further comprising recording one or more second user inputs on the sensor, associating the one or more second user inputs with one or more user-specified commands, and retaining the recordings of one or more second user inputs and the associated user-specified commands in a data store.

10. The method of claim 3, further comprising comparing the first physical input to the one or more the second user inputs, and basing the translation of the first physical input to a computer recognizable command based upon the comparison.

11. The method of claim 3, wherein the sensor is a capacitive touch sensor.