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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 23, 2002
Filed:
Jan. 29, 2001
Muralidharan Ramaswamy, Danbury, CT (US);
Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Abstract
A method, wireless MP3 player and system for downloading MP3 files from MP3 content sites that are in data communication with the Internet. The method comprises the steps of providing a wireless application protocol network in data communication with the Internet, a music server in data connection with the Internet, at least one MP3 content site in data communication with the Internet, and a wireless MP3 player having circuitry for establishing data communications with the wireless application protocol network and a display for displaying information generated by the music server. The method further comprises the steps of operating the wireless MP3 player to establish data communication with the wireless application protocol network so as to establish data communication between the wireless MP3 player and the Internet, establishing data communication between the wireless MP3 player and the music server, inputting data into the wireless MP3 player that defines particular music desired by a user, operating the wireless MP3 player so as to instruct the music server to effect a search of the MP3 content sites to locate MP3 files relating to the desired music, displaying on the wireless MP3 player at least one title of an MP3 file located in the search, operating the wireless MP3 player to select the title, operating the wireless MP3 player to instruct the music server to upload an MP3 file that corresponds to the selected title, and downloading the uploaded MP3 file to the wireless MP3 player.