Selecting/acquiring desired multimedia content
AssigneeSony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB
InventorsStephen Forbes, Gregory Dunko
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Abstract
A consumer electronics device comprises a receiver to receive a broadcast signal transmitted by a commercial broadcast radio station, a controller, and a communications interface. The broadcast radio signal comprises multimedia content that may be rendered to the user and information identifying the multimedia content. The controller generates a request to download the multimedia content using the information identifying the multimedia content. The communications interface transmits the request to a server in a communications network, which downloads the requested multimedia content to a user-designated destination device if the content is available.
Claims49
A consumer electronics device comprising:
- a receiver to receive a broadcast signal that includes multimedia content and information identifying the multimedia content;
- a processing circuit to render the multimedia content to a user;
- a communications interface to transmit a request to download the multimedia content being rendered to the user based on the information identifying the multimedia content.
A method of downloading multimedia content using a consumer electronics device, the method comprising:
- receiving a broadcast radio signal comprising multimedia content and information identifying the multimedia content;
- rendering the multimedia content to a user of the consumer electronics device;
- sending a request to download the multimedia content being rendered to the user based on the decoded information.
A system for downloading multimedia content to a user of a wireless communications device comprising:
- a consumer electronics device configured to:
- receive a broadcast signal comprising multimedia content and information identifying the multimedia content;
- render the multimedia content to the user;
- and
- transmit a request to download the multimedia content based on the information;
- and
- a server configured to:
- receive the request to download the multimedia content;
- and
- download the multimedia content to a destination device designated by a user of the consumer electronics device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.