Distributed control for a continuous play background music system
AssigneeIntellectual Ventures Fund 47 LLC
InventorsThomas M. Krikorian, Simon J. Mccluskey
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Abstract
A system and method executed at a computing device for providing digital content, is provided. The method includes: remotely providing digital media files via a network to a playback device responsively to a computer being remotely located from both the computing device and the playback device; receiving at least one first communication from the computer via the network; and sending at least one second communication to the playback device via the network and based upon the first communication. Playback of ones of the provided digital media files at the playback device is modified responsively to the at least one second communication.
Claims18
A method executed at a computing device for providing digital content, comprising:
- remotely providing digital media files via a network to a playback device responsively to a computer being remotely located from both:
- the computing device;
- and
- the playback device;
- receiving at least one first communication from the computer via the network;
- and
- sending at least one second communication to the playback device via the network and based upon the first communication;
- wherein, playback of ones of the provided digital media files at the playback device is modified responsively to the at least one second communication.
A computer device for providing digital content, comprising:
- means for remotely providing digital media files via a network to a playback device responsively to a computer being remotely located from both:
- the computer device;
- and
- the playback device;
- means for receiving at least one first communication from the computer via the network;
- and
- means for sending at least one second communication to the playback device via the network and based upon the at least one first communication;
- wherein, playback of ones of the provided digital media files at the playback device is modified responsively to the at least one second communication.
Computer code embodied on a non-transitory computer readable medium, the computer code comprising:
- code configured to remotely provide digital media files via a network to a playback device responsively to a computer being remotely located from both:
- the apparatus;
- and
- the playback device;
- code configured to receive at least one first communication from the computer via the network;
- and
- code configured to send at least one second communication to the playback device via the network and based upon the at least one first communication;
- wherein, playback of ones of the provided digital media files at the playback device is modified responsively to the at least one second communication.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.