IP Library Granted Patent US 7,890,088
Granted Patent B2
US 7,890,088 · App. 12/433,053 · Granted Feb 15, 2011

Mobile wireless communication terminals, systems, methods, and computer program products for managing playback of song files

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Patent No.
US 7,890,088
App. No.
12/433,053
Granted
Feb 15, 2011
Kind
B2
Abstract

A mobile wireless communication terminal includes a wireless communication module that is configured to communicate with other communication terminals over a wireless interface, and a controller. The controller is configured to establish a connection with at least one participant wireless communication terminal via the wireless communication module, to receive from the at least one participant wireless communication terminal an identification of a compliant song file stored on the at least one participant wireless communication terminal and having a metadata tag associated therewith indicating that the compliant song file is classified in a prescribed song file category, and to execute playback of the compliant song file.

Claims (12)

1. A host mobile wireless communication terminal comprising:

a wireless communication module that is configured to communicate with other communication terminals over a wireless interface; and

a controller that is configured to establish a connection with a plurality of participant wireless communication terminals via the wireless communication module, to maintain a list of nominated song files, to receive vote messages from at least two of the plurality of the participant wireless communication terminals, to determine an elected song file from the list of nominated song files based on the vote messages, and to execute playback of the elected song file simultaneously on the plurality of participant wireless communication terminals.

2. The host mobile wireless communication terminal of claim 1 wherein the controller is configured to receive an identification of a nominated song file from at least one of the participant wireless communication terminals, and to add the identification of the nominated song file to the list of nominated song files.

3. The host mobile wireless communication terminal of claim 1 wherein the controller is configured to retrieve the elected song file from at least one of the participant wireless communication terminals for playback.

4. The host mobile wireless communication terminal of claim 1 wherein:

the wireless communication module is configured to communicate with other communication terminals over a direct point-to-point wireless interface; and

the controller is configured to establish the connection with the plurality of participant wireless communication terminals via the wireless communication module via the direct point-to-point wireless interface, and to receive the vote messages from the participant wireless communication terminals via the direct point-to-point wireless interface.

5. The host mobile wireless communication terminal of claim 1 wherein the wireless communication module comprises a Bluetooth transmitter.

6. The host mobile wireless communication terminal of claim 1 wherein the wireless communication terminal includes a cellular telephone.

7. The host mobile wireless communication terminal of claim 1 wherein the host mobile wireless communication terminal is a handheld mobile terminal.

8. The host mobile wireless communication terminal of claim 7 wherein the handheld mobile terminal is a cellular telephone.

Assignments (6)
CORRECTIVE ASSIGNMENT TO CORRECT THE EXECUTION DATE PREVIOUSLY RECORDED AT REEL: 036868 FRAME: 0084. ASSIGNOR(S) HEREBY CONFIRMS THE CHANGE OF NAME. Recorded Jun 22, 2018
From: SONY ERICSSON MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS AB
To: SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS AB
Reel/Frame 046412/0075 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Dec 6, 2017
From: SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS AB
To: SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS INC.
Reel/Frame 044713/0347 →
CORRECTIVE ASSIGNMENT TO CORRECT THE EXECUTION DATE PREVIOUSLY RECORDED AT REEL: 036868 FRAME: 0084. ASSIGNOR(S) HEREBY CONFIRMS THE CHANGE OF NAME. Recorded Nov 23, 2015
From: SONY ERICSSON MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS AB
To: SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS AB
Reel/Frame 037207/0572 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Nov 13, 2015
From: SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS INC.
To: SNAPTRACK, INC.
Reel/Frame 037109/0913 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Oct 15, 2015
From: SONY ERICSSON MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS AB
To: SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS AB
Reel/Frame 036868/0084 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 2, 2015
From: DE LÉON, DAVID; SPARRE, ERIK; GRANSTRÖM, MARTIN
To: SONY ERICSSON MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS AB
Reel/Frame 036709/0604 →