Cell Phone Based Sound Production
OwnerEdward J. Sceery, Richard Krukarinventors
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Abstract
A cell phone based sound producing device is a sound producing device that takes advantage of the likelihood that a user is already carrying a cell phone and does not need to also carry an electronic sound producing device. Another advantage is that cell phones are designed to communicate across a communications network. As such, the cell phone based sound producing device can download sounds from a server, store them, and play them. Electronic payment systems for ring tones that are played on a cell phone already exist. These electronic payment systems can be adapted to payment for sound producing device modules and for sounds. Recovery information can be used to restore modules and sounds that are lost due to cell phone breakage or upgrades.
Claims20
A system comprising:
- a cell phone comprising an input device, a display, a cellular radio, an internal speaker and a non-volatile memory wherein a plurality of stored sounds are stored in the non-volatile memory;
- a presentation displayed on the display and offering a plurality of available sounds wherein the available sounds comprise at least one of the stored sounds and at least one of a plurality of served sounds, and wherein a user chooses a selected sound from amongst the available sounds;
- a sound retrieval module that automatically obtains the selected sound from a server when the selected sound is not one of the stored sounds and wherein the sound retrieval module stores the selected sound in the non-volatile memory such that the selected sound becomes one of the stored sounds;
- recovery information for recovering lost sounds wherein certain of the stored sounds are lost to thereby become lost sounds;
- a sound producing module that accesses the stored sounds to thereby play the stored sounds on at least one speaker wherein the internal speaker is one of the at least one speaker.
A system comprising:
- an electronic sound producing device comprising an input device, a display, and a non-volatile memory;
- a communications module that the electronic device uses to communicate with a server that serves a served sound;
- a non-volatile memory storing a plurality of stored sounds;
- a presentation displayed on the display and offering a plurality of available sounds to a user wherein the available sounds comprise at least one of the stored sounds and at least one of the served sounds, and wherein a user chooses a selected sound;
- a sound retrieval module that obtains the served sound and stores the served sound in the non-volatile memory as an additional stored sound;
- recovery information for recovering the stored sounds;
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- a sound producing module that accesses the at least one stored sound and plays the at least one stored sound on at least one speaker.
A system comprising:
- a server that offers a plurality of served sounds to the user of a cell phone wherein the user selects one of the served sounds to be a selected sound, wherein the cell phone automatically retrieves the selected sound from the server and stores the selected sound as a stored sound in a non-volatile memory;
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- recovery information for recovering lost sounds for the user wherein the user has lost certain of the stored sounds that thereby become lost sounds.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.