# US 2025/0148464 A1 · System, method, and apparatus for downloading content directly into a wearable device

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- Number: US 2025/0148464 A1
- Document ID: US20250148464A1
- Status: Published application
- Kind: A1
- Application number: 19/015,879
- Filed: 2025-01-10
- Published: 2025-05-08
- Earliest claimed: 2020-10-05
- Assignees: Onanoff Limited Company (Ltd.)
- Applicants: Onanoff Limited Company (Ltd.)
- Inventors: Petur Hannes Olafsson; Simon Weston; Charles R. Watson
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20250148464A1

## CPC

- G06Q 20/401: {Transaction verification}
- G06F 3/011: {Arrangements for interaction with the human body, e.g. for user immersion in virtual reality (blind teaching G09B21/00)}
- G06F 3/012: {Head tracking input arrangements}
- G06F 3/165: {Management of the audio stream, e.g. setting of volume, audio stream path}
- G06F 21/31: User authentication
- G06F 21/44: Program or device authentication
- G06K 7/10396: {the interrogation device being wearable, e.g. as a glove, bracelet, or ring (wearable aerials in general H01Q1/27)}
- G06Q 20/1235: {with control of digital rights management [DRM]}
- H04L 63/0807: {using tickets, e.g. Kerberos (cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication using tickets or tokens H04L9/3213)}
- H04R 1/1041: {Mechanical or electronic switches, or control elements (switches in general H01H)}
- H04R 5/033: Headphones for stereophonic communication {(details thereof, e.g. relating to batteries, cables or control elements H04R1/10)}
- H04W 12/06: Authentication
- H04W 12/50: Secure pairing of devices
- G06Q 2220/18: Licensing
- H04R 2420/07: Applications of wireless loudspeakers or wireless microphones
- H04R 2460/07: Use of position data from wide-area or local-area positioning systems in hearing devices, e.g. program or information selection
- H04S 7/304: {For headphones}
- G06Q: INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES; SYSTEMS OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
- G06F: ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N)
- G06K: GRAPHICAL DATA READING (image or video recognition or understanding G06V); PRESENTATION OF DATA; RECORD CARRIERS; HANDLING RECORD CARRIERS
- H04L: TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION (arrangements common to telegraphic and telephonic communication H04M)
- H04R: LOUDSPEAKERS, MICROPHONES, GRAMOPHONE PICK-UPS OR LIKE ACOUSTIC ELECTROMECHANICAL TRANSDUCERS; ELECTRIC HEARING AIDS; PUBLIC ADDRESS SYSTEMS (producing sounds with frequency not determined by supply frequency G10K)
- H04W: WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS (broadcast communication H04H; communication systems using wireless links for non-selective communication, e.g. wireless extensions H04M1/72)
- H04S: STEREOPHONIC SYSTEMS

## Abstract

A set of headphones has an audio system, a control system with a graphical user interface (GUI) and a digital content management system including a database of digital content, a user authentication system, a processor, and a memory storing executable instructions. The processor is configured to validate a user, download and store digital content upon user authentication, and decrypt and decode the digital content for output via the audio system to an authenticated user. A set of headphones enable one or more users to engage with story content with one or more biometric sensors to capture physiological and emotional responses, such as heart rate, skin conductivity, and/or motion, which are analyzed in real time by one or more of the processors. This adaptive system dynamically modifies the narrative path and content delivery based on the user's responses, creating personalized and immersive storytelling experiences.

## Claims

### Claim 1

A system, comprising:
a security code assigned to a device;
a control system comprising:
a graphical user interface (GUI);
a user authentication system, comprising:
a user account in communication with the security code of the device to authenticate the user account;
a digital content management system comprising:
a database of encrypted digital content, the encrypted digital content is associated with an identifier;
a digital token assigned to the user account, the digital token to validate access to the encrypted digital content of the device, based on the identifier of the encrypted digital content;
a processor coupled to a power source; and
a memory, coupled to the processor to store executable instructions,
the executable instructions to:
validate the user account; responsive to validation of access to the encrypted digital content of the device, via the digital token, decrypt and decode the encrypted digital content for output of the encrypted digital content to the authenticated user account; and
download and store the decrypted digital content to the memory responsive to when the user account is authenticated.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

The system of claim 1, wherein the device has a rotatable bezel and a rotary encoder coupled to the rotatable bezel, the rotatable bezel has a substantially central opening, the GUI is located in the substantially central opening of the rotatable bezel.

### Claim 3 (depends on 2)

The system of claim 2, wherein the rotatable bezel has one or more protrusion structures configured to be gripped by a user during rotation of the rotatable bezel.

### Claim 4 (depends on 1)

The system of claim 1, further comprising an audio system.

### Claim 5 (depends on 4)

The system of claim 4, wherein the audio system is a near-ear audio system.

### Claim 6 (depends on 4)

The system of claim 4, wherein a light emitting unit implementing the audio system.

### Claim 7 (depends on 1)

A set of headphones implementing the system of claim 1, wherein the set of headphones comprising:
a headband;
a first ear cup connected to a first end of the headband;
a second ear cup connected to a second end of the headband;
the GUI disposed at the first ear cup;
a rotatable bezel connected to the first ear cup;
a first ear pad connected to the first ear cup; and
a second ear pad connected to the second ear cup.

### Claim 8 (depends on 7)

The system of claim 7, wherein the headband further comprising:
a capacity-wearing detector configured to power off the GUI when the set of headphones are worn on a user's head, and to illuminate the GUI when the set of headphones are removed.

### Claim 9 (depends on 7)

The system of claim 7, wherein the headband further comprising:
one or more sensors in communication with the processor.

### Claim 10 (depends on 9)

The system of claim 9, wherein the one or more sensors, including at least one accelerometer, gyroscope, or inertial measurement unit (IMU), configured to detect one or more user body movements and transmit the one or more user body movements to the processor to activate a modification in interactive storytelling.

### Claim 11 (depends on 1)

The system of claim 1, wherein the digital content management system, comprising:
an object;
an NFC tag located at the object, the NFC tag with one or more encrypted data links associated with the digital content; and
a remote NFC reader, the NFC tag to transmit the one or more encrypted data links to the remote NFC reader when the object is located within a predetermined proximity to the remote NFC reader.

### Claim 12 (depends on 1)

The system of claim 1, wherein the digital content management system, comprising:
an electronic display device;
a graphic user interface (GUI) accessible via the electronic display device; and
an application platform to operate through the GUI, the application platform with one or more encrypted data links associated with the digital content of the digital content management system.

### Claim 13

An near-ear audio system, comprising:
a set of headphones, comprising:
a headband;
a first ear cup connected to a first end of the headband;
a second ear cup connected to a second end of the headband; and
a control system comprising:
a graphical user interface (GUI) disposed at the first ear cup;
a rotatable bezel connected to the first ear cup; and
a rotary encoder coupled to the rotatable bezel; and
a digital content management system comprising:
a database of digital content;
a user authentication system;
a processor coupled to a power source; and
a memory, coupled to the processor to store executable instructions,
the executable instructions to:
instructions to validate a user;
instructions to download and store the digital content to the memory responsive to when the user is authenticated; and
instructions to decrypt and decode the digital content for output of the digital content, via the near-ear audio system, to an authenticated user.

### Claim 14 (depends on 13)

The near-ear audio system of claim 13, wherein the rotatable bezel has a substantially central opening, the GUI is located in the substantially central opening of the rotatable bezel.

### Claim 15 (depends on 13)

The near-ear audio system of claim 13, wherein the rotatable bezel has one or more protrusion structures configured to be gripped by the user during rotation of the rotatable bezel.

### Claim 16 (depends on 13)

The near-ear audio system of claim 13, further comprising:
a security code assigned to the set of headphones;
a user authentication system comprising:
a user account in communication with the security code of the set of headphones to authenticate the user account;
a digital content management system comprising:
a database of digital content, the digital content is associated with an identifier; and
a digital token assigned to the user account, the digital token to validate access to the digital content of the set of headphones, based on the identifier of the digital content;
the executable instructions further to:
validate the user account;
download and store the digital content to the memory responsive to when the user account is authenticated; and
responsive to validation of access to the digital content of the set of headphones, via the digital token, decrypt and decode the digital content for output of the digital content to the authenticated user account when the digital token.

### Claim 17 (depends on 13)

The near-ear audio system of claim 13, wherein the set of headphones further comprising:
one or more sensors in communication with the processor.

### Claim 18

A device, comprising:
an audio system;
a security code assigned to the device;
a control system comprising:
a graphical user interface (GUI);
a user authentication system comprising:
a user account in communication with the security code of the device to authenticate the user account;
a digital content management system comprising:
a database of digital content, the digital content is associated with an identifier; and
a digital token assigned to the user account, the digital token to validate access to the digital content of the device, based on the identifier of the digital content;
a processor coupled to a power source; and
a memory, coupled to the processor to store executable instructions,
the executable instructions to:
validate the user account;
download and store the digital content to the memory responsive to when the user account is authenticated; and
responsive to validation of access to the digital content of the device, via the digital token, decrypt and decode the digital content for output of the digital content, via the audio system, to the authenticated user account when the digital token.

### Claim 19 (depends on 18)

The device of claim 18, wherein the digital content management system, comprising:
an object;
an NFC tag located at the object, the NFC tag with one or more encrypted data links associated with at least the digital content; and
a remote NFC reader, the NFC tag to transmit the one or more encrypted data links to the remote NFC reader when the object is located within a predetermined proximity to the remote NFC reader.

### Claim 20 (depends on 18)

The device of claim 18, wherein the digital content management system, comprising:
an electronic display device;
a graphic user interface (GUI) accessible via the electronic display device; and
an application platform to operate through the GUI, the application platform with one or more encrypted data links associated with the digital content of the digital content management system.

### Claim 21 (depends on 19)

The device of claim 19, wherein the NFC tag is configured to initiate connection between the device to one or more local networks of one or more devices.

### Claim 22 (depends on 19)

The device of claim 19, wherein the NFC tag is configured to allows multiplayer and multidevice features to be activated.

### Claim 23 (depends on 19)

The device of claim 19, wherein the NFC tag is configured to delete at least a portion of data retained on the device.