Information Highway Media Corporation

Mobilemedia Ideas LLC

Audiohighway.com

Nathan Schulhof

James M Janky

Grant Jasmin

A system for selection by a user and delivery to the user over an internetwork transmission channel of selected audio data files at a delivery rate of at least twice the delivery rate for normal, audibly perceptible playback of an audio data file. The user registers the user's selection of audio material with a central library of audio and/or text data files, and a digitized and optionally compressed omnibus file containing the user's selections is prepared and transmitted to the user at a high data transfer rate. The user receives downloads the selected data files to a personal computer or to a portable storage and playback unit (SPU) that may store and play back digitized text or audio data, using a docking station. The user carries this SPU until the user has an opportunity to audio process and play back the text or audio data files in audibly perceptible form.

Enhanced delivery of audio data for portable playback

A system for selection by a user and delivery to the user of selected audio data files at a delivery rate of 2-100 times the delivery rate for normal, audibly perceptible playback of an audio data file. The user registers the user's selection of audio material with a central library of data files and a digitized and compressed omnibus file containing the user's selections is prepared and transmitted to the user at a high data transfer rate. The user receives downloads the omnibus file to a removable, high density diskette or PCMCIA card that may hold ten �Mbytes! Megabytes to one �Gbyte! Gigabyte of digitized text or audio data, using a removable hard drive or its equivalent and a universal data interface that recognized and compensates for omnibus files received in any of a plurality of input signal formats. The user carries this diskette or PCMCIA card until the user has an opportunity to decompress and play back the text or audio data files in audibly perceptible form. The central library contains either text files or audio data files in digitized compressed format. An audio data file may include E-mail messages, from which the system strips the routing information for more convenient playback by the user.

Enhanced delivery of audio data

A distribution system for audio program materials includes a portable audio storage and retrieval device that is programmable from a high speed data transfer system, and that includes a high-capacity data storage medium, a base control interface for identifying and accepting program material, a mobile control interface for displaying the identity of recorded material for playback selection, a recording mechanism for accepting very high speed digital data from an external source at rates faster than real time, and a playback mechanism for retrieving the stored data from the storage medium and for converting the data into audio signals for playback.

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Nathan Schulhof