Music user interface
OwnerJohn O'Brien, Donald MacKinnon +2inventors
InventorsJohn O'Brien, Donald MacKinnon, Lisa Laarman, Robert Dixon
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Abstract
A music user interface presents various thematic choices, such as themes organized around various artists, to organize digital music so as to enhance the user's browsing, playing, and purchasing experience. An “Artist Choice” user interface presents a dual presentation of a selected artist and his/her music preferences. A “Now Playing” user interface presents music selections being performed inside a store. A “Burn” user interface allows the rapid production of a music CD containing the choices of the listener/browser.
Claims20
A computer system including a display, a user input facility, and an application for presenting user interfaces on the display, comprising:
- a set of thematic user interface elements presented on the display, each thematic user interface element representing a collection of digital music that corresponds to a theme;
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- a set of album user interface elements presented contemporaneously with the set of thematic user interface elements on the display, the set of album user interface elements representing a portion of the collection of digital music corresponding to a thematic user interface element.
A computer system including a display, a user input facility, and an application for presenting user interfaces on the display, comprising:
- a song user interface element presented on the display, the song user interface element representing a song currently being played;
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- a set of played song user interface elements presented contemporaneously with the song user interface elements on the display, the set of played song user interface elements representing songs that were recently played.
A computer system including a display, a user input facility, and an application for presenting user interfaces on the display, comprising:
- a set of song user interface elements presented on the display, the set of song user interface elements representing songs under consideration by a user for purchasing;
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- a burn user interface element presented on the display, the burn user interface element being clickable once to indicate the purchase of the songs under consideration and to cause the burning of the songs under consideration to a computer-readable medium.
A computer-implemented method comprising:
- receiving a selection of a thematic user interface element from a set of thematic user interface elements presented on the display, each thematic user interface element representing a collection of digital music that corresponds to a theme;
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- displaying a set of album user interface elements that is presented contemporaneously with the set of thematic user interface elements on the display, the set of album user interface elements representing a portion of the collection of digital music and corresponding to the selected thematic user interface element.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.