Yahoo! Inc.

Robert F Kleemann

Amir Doron

Bradley D Kindig

Philip Mansiel Pellouchoud

Kevin L Sitze

Daniel Baird

Michael J Kogan

Sean Cornell Joshlin

Mark Alan Laffoon

Nathan Lavar Clegg

Sean Robert Sullivan

Ameen Hikmat Abed

An online music purchasing system and method is disclosed, in which a radio service operates on a user's computer and is configured for receiving and playing digital radio representations of media content in near real-time in a radio session. A content server is configured for serving the digital radio representations of media content to the radio service, and a radio sequence server is configured for serving a sequential list of currently-playing and previously-played media content of the radio session to the radio service. An account server is configured for receiving a signal indicative of a user's desire to purchase a file of one of a currently-playing or previously-played media content. A download manager is configured for downloading the file to the user's computer according to the signal indicative of the user's desire to purchase the file.

Music purchasing and playing system and method

Growing community of inventors

San Diego, CA, United States of America

Robert F Kleemann