US 7,603,414 B2 · System, method and computer program product for collaborative background music among portable communication devices

Abstract

A system, method and computer program product for enabling a plurality of users engaged in real-time voice communications over a wireless communications link to collaboratively select one or more musical media files and to jointly listen to the collaboratively selected musical media in approximate synchronicity as a mutually perceivable background musical stream. The background musical stream is audibly output to each of the plurality of users in audio combination with the exchanged real-time voice communications such that the exchanged voice communications is intelligible to each user along with the background musical stream. Each user is situated proximal to a portable communication device that enables the real-time voice communications, the collaborative selection of musical media, and the audio combination of voice communications and musical media.

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Dependent claims

A system for collaboratively selecting a background musical composition for concurrent play with voice communications comprising:

a plurality of portable communications devices, each portable communication device comprising;
a processor;
a memory coupled to the processor;
a transceiver coupled to the processor configured to at least exchange real-time voice communications with at least another portable communication device;
the real-time voice communications comprising user vocalizations captured by a microphone coupled to each portable communication device;
an audio processing subsystem coupled to the processor configured to audibly output at least a portion of the exchanged real-time voice communications in audible combination with a mutually perceivable background musical stream;
and,
a collaborative music program operatively loadable into the memory including instructions executable by the processor to enable the collaborative selection of a musical media file for generation of the mutually perceivable background musical stream.

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A method for collaboratively selecting a background musical composition for concurrent play with voice communications comprising:

providing a plurality of portable communications devices, each of the portable communication devices having a processor, a memory, a transceiver and an audio processing subsystem operatively coupled to the processor;
configuring each transceiver to at least exchange real-time voice communications with at least another of the plurality of portable communication devices, the real-time voice communications comprising user vocalizations captured by a microphone coupled to each portable communication device;
configuring the audio processing subsystem of each portable communication device to audibly output at least a portion of the exchanged voice communications in audio combination with a mutually perceivable background musical stream;
and,
providing a collaborative music program operatively loadable into the memory of at least one of the plurality of portable communication devices, the program including instructions executable by the processor to perform collaborative selection of a musical media file for generation of the mutually perceivable background musical stream.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

System, method and computer program product for collaborative background music among portable communication devices

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System, method and computer program product for collaborative background music among portable communication devices

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