Creating and Purchasing Ringtones
OwnerEddy Cue, Heller David +3inventors
InventorsEddy Cue, Heller David, Steve Jobs, Jeffrey L. Robbin, Timothy Wasko
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Abstract
Techniques for creating and purchasing ringtones for use in electronic devices, such as mobile phones (e.g., cellular phones) or other telephone-enabled devices (e.g., Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs), multi-function devices) are disclosed. These techniques can use a media management application and/or an online media store to browse, create, edit, purchase, and/or download ringtones for use in mobile phones or other telephone-enabled devices. Further, these techniques can be used to manage ringtones on one or more devices, including personal computers, mobile phones, and telephone-enabled devices.
Claims24
A computer-implemented method for creating a ringtone, comprising:
- identifying a media asset;
- creating a ringtone from the identified media asset, the creating including receiving a selection of a portion of the identified media asset to serve as the ringtone;
- and
- transferring the ringtone to a communication device.
A computer readable medium including at least tangible program code executable by a machine, said computer readable medium comprising:
- program code for identifying a media item;
- program code for creating the ringtone, the creating including selecting a portion of the identified media item to serve as the ringtone, the selected portion of the selected media asset being described by position information, and
- program code for sending the position information to a remote computing device that stores position information for ringtones created by a plurality of different users.
A computer readable medium including at least tangible program code executable by a machine, said computer readable medium comprising:
- program code for identifying a media item;
- program code for creating a ringtone from the identified media item, the creating including a user selection of a portion of the identified media asset to serve as the ringtone;
- and
- program code for copying ringtone data pertaining to the ringtone to a mobile electronic device having wireless communication capabilities.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.