# US 10,768,792 B2 · Music now playing user interface > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 10,768,792 B2 - Document ID: US10768792B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 16/430,364 - Filed: 2019-06-03 - Published: 2019-09-19 - Granted: 2020-09-08 - Earliest claimed: 2014-06-24 - Assignees: Apple Inc. - Applicants: Apple Inc. - Inventors: Taylor G. Carrigan; Joe Howard; Joshua McGlinn; Jonathan Lochhead; Benjamin W. Keighran; William M. Bachman; Elbert D. Chen; Jeffrey L. Robbin; Jennifer L. C. Folse; Lynne Kress; Kory M. Westerhold; Monika E. Gromek; Policarpo Bonilla Wood, Jr. - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US10768792B2 ## CPC - G06F 3/0482: Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus - G06F 3/04812: Interaction techniques based on cursor appearance or behaviour, e.g. being affected by the presence of displayed objects - G06F 3/04842: Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements (G06F3/0482 takes precedence) - G06F 3/0485: Scrolling or panning - G06F 3/0488: using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures - G06F 3/04883: for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text - G06F 3/04886: by partitioning the display area of the touch-screen or the surface of the digitising tablet into independently controllable areas, e.g. virtual keyboards or menus - G11B 27/34: Indicating arrangements {(indicating means incorporated in magazine or cassette G11B23/046 and G11B23/0875; indicating measured values in general G01D)} - G11B 27/031: Electronic editing of digitised analogue information signals, e.g. audio or video signals - G11B 27/102: {Programmed access in sequence to addressed parts of tracks of operating record carriers (access by moving the head G11B3/08, G11B5/54, G11B7/085, G11B21/022; by moving the record carrier G11B15/005, G11B17/005, by driving of both record carrier and head G11B15/1816)} - G06F: ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N) - G11B: INFORMATION STORAGE BASED ON RELATIVE MOVEMENT BETWEEN RECORD CARRIER AND TRANSDUCER (recording measured values in a way that does not require playback through a transducer G01D9/00; recording or playback apparatus using mechanically marked tape, e.g. punched paper tape, or using unit records, e.g. punched or magnetically marked cards G06K; transferring data from one type of record carrier to another G06K1/18; circuits for coupling output of reproducer to radio receiver H04B1/20; gramophone pick-ups or like acoustic electromechanical transducers or circuits therefor H04R) ## Abstract The invention is directed to an electronic device. The electronic device generates for presentation on a display a user interface including a plurality of content items, a first heading, and a second heading. While the user interface is presented on the display, the electronic device receives input scrolling the plurality of content items. In response to the input, the electronic device scrolls the plurality of content items including: scrolling the first heading with a first content item of the plurality of content items that is currently playing; and scrolling the second heading with a second content item of the plurality of content items that is next in a queue of content items. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A method comprising: at an electronic device in communication with a display device and one or more input devices: while a first content item is playing on the electronic device, concurrently displaying, via the display device: a first plurality of representations of content items available for playing on the electronic device, wherein a first respective representation of the first plurality of representations is currently selected; and a representation corresponding to the first content item that is currently playing on the electronic device; while concurrently displaying the first plurality of representations of content items available for playing on the electronic device and the representation corresponding to the first content item that is playing on the electronic device, receiving, via the one or more input devices, an input; and in response to receiving the input: in accordance with a determination that the input corresponds to a request to move the current selection from the first respective representation to a second respective representation of a second content item available for playing on the electronic device, moving the current selection from the first respective representation to the second respective representation, while maintaining: playback of the first content item; and display, via the display device, of the representation corresponding to the first content item that is currently playing on the electronic device. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, wherein the second respective representation is included in the first plurality of representations. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, wherein the second respective representation is included in a second plurality of representations, different than the first plurality of representations, and moving the current selection from the first respective representation to the second respective representation includes: ceasing display of at least a portion of the first plurality of representations; and revealing, via the display device, at least a portion of the second plurality of representations. ### Claim 4 (depends on 3) The method of claim 3, wherein the second respective representation is included in the at least the portion of the second plurality of representations that was revealed via the display device. ### Claim 5 (depends on 3) The method of claim 3, wherein the first respective representation is included in the at least the portion of the first plurality of representations that ceased to be displayed. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, wherein the representation corresponding to the first content item that is currently playing on the electronic device is a background over which the first plurality of representations of content items available for playing on the electronic device is displayed. ### Claim 7 (depends on 6) The method of claim 6, wherein the background is based on album art associated with the currently playing content item on the electronic device. ### Claim 8 (depends on 7) The method of claim 7, wherein the background is a visually altered version of the album art associated with the currently playing content item. ### Claim 9 (depends on 8) The method of claim 8, wherein the background is a scaled version of the album art associated with the currently playing content item. ### Claim 10 (depends on 8) The method of claim 8, wherein the background is a cropped version of the album art associated with the currently playing content item. ### Claim 11 (depends on 8) The method of claim 8, wherein the background is a blurred version of the album art associated with the currently playing content item. ### Claim 12 (depends on 6) The method of claim 6, wherein the background changes as audio of the currently playing content item changes. ### Claim 13 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, further comprising: while the second respective representation of the second content item has the current selection, and while playing the first content item and displaying the representation corresponding to the first content item that is currently playing on the electronic device, receiving, via the one or more input devices, an input corresponding to a request to initiate playback of the second content item; and in response to receiving the input corresponding to the request to initiate playback of the second content item: ceasing playback of the first content item; initiating playback of the second content item; ceasing display of the representation corresponding to the first content item; and displaying, via the display device, a representation corresponding to the second content item that is currently playing on the electronic device. ### Claim 14 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, wherein the first plurality of representations include respective images corresponding to the content items. ### Claim 15 A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium including instructions, which when executed by one or more processors of an electronic device in communication with a display device and one or more input devices, cause the electronic device to perform a method comprising: while a first content item is playing on the electronic device, concurrently displaying, via the display device: a first plurality of representations of content items available for playing on the electronic device, wherein a first respective representation of the first plurality of representations is currently selected; and a representation corresponding to the first content item that is currently playing on the electronic device; while concurrently displaying the first plurality of representations of content items available for playing on the electronic device and the representation corresponding to the first content item that is playing on the electronic device, receiving, via the one or more input devices, an input; and in response to receiving the input: in accordance with a determination that the input corresponds to a request to move the current selection from the first respective representation to a second respective representation of a second content item available for playing on the electronic device, moving the current selection from the first respective representation to the second respective representation, while maintaining: playback of the first content item; and display, via the display device, of the representation corresponding to the first content item that is currently playing on the electronic device. ### Claim 16 (depends on 15) The computer-readable storage medium of claim 15, wherein the second respective representation is included in the first plurality of representations. ### Claim 17 (depends on 15) The computer-readable storage medium of claim 15, wherein the second respective representation is included in a second plurality of representations, different than the first plurality of representations, and moving the current selection from the first respective representation to the second respective representation includes: ceasing display of at least a portion of the first plurality of representations; and revealing, via the display device, at least a portion of the second plurality of representations. ### Claim 18 (depends on 17) The computer-readable storage medium of claim 17, wherein the second respective representation is included in the at least the portion of the second plurality of representations that was revealed via the display device. ### Claim 19 (depends on 17) The computer-readable storage medium of claim 17, wherein the first respective representation is included in the at least the portion of the first plurality of representations that ceased to be displayed. ### Claim 20 (depends on 15) The computer-readable storage medium of claim 15, wherein the representation corresponding to the first content item that is currently playing on the electronic device is a background over which the first plurality of representations of content items available for playing on the electronic device is displayed. ### Claim 21 (depends on 20) The computer-readable storage medium of claim 20, wherein the background is based on album art associated with the currently playing content item on the electronic device. ### Claim 22 (depends on 21) The computer-readable storage medium of claim 21, wherein the background is a visually altered version of the album art associated with the currently playing content item. ### Claim 23 (depends on 22) The computer-readable storage medium of claim 22, wherein the background is a scaled version of the album art associated with the currently playing content item. ### Claim 24 (depends on 22) The computer-readable storage medium of claim 22, wherein the background is a cropped version of the album art associated with the currently playing content item. ### Claim 25 (depends on 22) The computer-readable storage medium of claim 22, wherein the background is a blurred version of the album art associated with the currently playing content item. ### Claim 26 (depends on 20) The computer-readable storage medium of claim 20, wherein the background changes as audio of the currently playing content item changes. ### Claim 27 (depends on 15) The computer-readable storage medium of claim 15, wherein the method further comprises: while the second respective representation of the second content item has the current selection, and while playing the first content item and displaying the representation corresponding to the first content item that is currently playing on the electronic device, receiving, via the one or more input devices, an input corresponding to a request to initiate playback of the second content item; and in response to receiving the input corresponding to the request to initiate playback of the second content item: ceasing playback of the first content item; initiating playback of the second content item; ceasing display of the representation corresponding to the first content item; and displaying, via the display device, a representation corresponding to the second content item that is currently playing on the electronic device. ### Claim 28 (depends on 15) The computer-readable storage medium of claim 15, wherein the first plurality of representations include respective images corresponding to the content items. ### Claim 29 An electronic device comprising: one or more processors; and memory storing instructions, which when executed by the one or more processors, cause the electronic device to perform a method comprising: while a first content item is playing on the electronic device, concurrently displaying, via a display device: a first plurality of representations of content items available for playing on the electronic device, wherein a first respective representation of the first plurality of representations is currently selected; and a representation corresponding to the first content item that is currently playing on the electronic device; while concurrently displaying the first plurality of representations of content items available for playing on the electronic device and the representation corresponding to the first content item that is playing on the electronic device, receiving, via one or more input devices, an input; and in response to receiving the input: in accordance with a determination that the input corresponds to a request to move the current selection from the first respective representation to a second respective representation of a second content item available for playing on the electronic device, moving the current selection from the first respective representation to the second respective representation, while maintaining: playback of the first content item; and display, via the display device, of the representation corresponding to the first content item that is currently playing on the electronic device. ### Claim 30 (depends on 29) The electronic device of claim 29, wherein the second respective representation is included in the first plurality of representations. ### Claim 31 (depends on 29) The electronic device of claim 29, wherein the second respective representation is included in a second plurality of representations, different than the first plurality of representations, and moving the current selection from the first respective representation to the second respective representation includes: ceasing display of at least a portion of the first plurality of representations; and revealing, via the display device, at least a portion of the second plurality of representations. ### Claim 32 (depends on 31) The electronic device of claim 31, wherein the second respective representation is included in the at least the portion of the second plurality of representations that was revealed via the display device. ### Claim 33 (depends on 31) The electronic device of claim 31, wherein the first respective representation is included in the at least the portion of the first plurality of representations that ceased to be displayed. ### Claim 34 (depends on 29) The electronic device of claim 29, wherein the representation corresponding to the first content item that is currently playing on the electronic device is a background over which the first plurality of representations of content items available for playing on the electronic device is displayed. ### Claim 35 (depends on 34) The electronic device of claim 34, wherein the background is based on album art associated with the currently playing content item on the electronic device. ### Claim 36 (depends on 35) The electronic device of claim 35, wherein the background is a visually altered version of the album art associated with the currently playing content item. ### Claim 37 (depends on 36) The electronic device of claim 36, wherein the background is a scaled version of the album art associated with the currently playing content item. ### Claim 38 (depends on 36) The electronic device of claim 36, wherein the background is a cropped version of the album art associated with the currently playing content item. ### Claim 39 (depends on 36) The electronic device of claim 36, wherein the background is a blurred version of the album art associated with the currently playing content item. ### Claim 40 (depends on 34) The electronic device of claim 34, wherein the background changes as audio of the currently playing content item changes. ### Claim 41 (depends on 29) The electronic device of claim 29, wherein the method further comprises: while the second respective representation of the second content item has the current selection, and while playing the first content item and displaying the representation corresponding to the first content item that is currently playing on the electronic device, receiving, via the one or more input devices, an input corresponding to a request to initiate playback of the second content item; and in response to receiving the input corresponding to the request to initiate playback of the second content item: ceasing playback of the first content item; initiating playback of the second content item; ceasing display of the representation corresponding to the first content item; and displaying, via the display device, a representation corresponding to the second content item that is currently playing on the electronic device. ### Claim 42 (depends on 29) The electronic device of claim 29, wherein the first plurality of representations include respective images corresponding to the content items.