Tagging media assets, locations, and advertisements

a technology for identifying media assets and locations, applied in the field of receiving broadcasts, can solve the problems of not being able to remember the title, not having ready access to pen or paper to write down, and not being able to hear or remember the title, etc., and achieve the effect of facilitating the identification of a particular broadcas

Inactive Publication Date: 2010-05-27
APPLE INC
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In the case of radio, the user may hear a song he or she likes but might not hear or be able to remember the title of the song or the name of the artist.
Often, even when identifying information is provided, the user might not have ready access to a pen or paper to write down the information (e.g., when driving) and might not be able to remember it later.
This can make it difficult for users who want to acquire interesting content to locate the content later.

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[0031]In accordance with some embodiments of the present invention, a portable media device and / or an accessory coupled thereto can be used to collect and store information about broadcasts received by the portable media device and / or accessory. The collected information, referred to herein as a “tag,” can encompass any type of data that facilitates identification of a particular broadcasts (e.g., a song in the case of music broadcasts, a podcast, an episode of a TV program, a location associated with a GPS signal, a store / product / good / service associated with an advertisement, and the like).

[0032]In some embodiments, the portable media device can be coupled to an accessory that is capable of receiving broadcasts. The broadcast can include broadcast content as well as metadata identifying the content (e.g., track title, location, store / product) and / or the broadcaster. The accessory can capture the metadata (and / or a portion of the broadcast content itself) and provide the metadata (a...

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An accessory communicates with a PMD to store tags associated with broadcasts in a file maintained in a storage medium of the accessory. In one embodiment, the accessory sends a command to the PMD to create or open a tag file that resides on the PMD. Once opened, the tag file is held open by the PMD until the accessory closes it (or disconnects), allowing multiple tags to be written to one file. Each time the user requests a new tag, the accessory generates a tag containing information descriptive of the broadcast material (e.g., song title, artist, radio station identifier, time of tagging, etc.) and writes the tag to the tag file using a write command to the PMD.

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CROSS-REFERENCES TO RELATED APPLICATIONS[0001]This application is a continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11 / 961,127, filed Dec. 20, 2007, which in turn claims priority to and the benefit of each of the following five U.S. Patent Applications: U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11 / 210,172, filed Aug. 22, 2005; U.S. Patent Application No. 60 / 876,857, filed Dec. 22, 2006; U.S. Patent Application No. 60 / 923,439, filed Apr. 12, 2007; U.S. Patent Application No. 60 / 916,766, filed May 8, 2007; and U.S. Patent Application No. 60 / 957,648, filed Aug. 23, 2007. The entire disclosure of each of these applications is incorporated herein by reference in its entirety.FIELD OF THE INVENTION[0002]The present invention relates generally to receiving broadcasts and in particular to systems and methods for communicating and storing information associated with data within a broadcast.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0003]Users listen to, watch or otherwise receive broadcasts in a variety of context...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(United States)
IPC IPC(8): G06F17/30G06Q30/00
CPCG06Q30/0241H04H60/27H04W4/185H04H60/64H04H60/73H04H60/37
Inventor DOROGUSKER, JESSE LEESCHUBERT, EMILY CLARKNOVOTNEY, DONALD J.BOLTON, LAWRENCE G.OLIVER, ERIC
Owner APPLE INC
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