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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Aug. 24, 2010

Filed:

Jan. 29, 2007
Applicants:

Richter A. Rafey, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Jacqueline L. Neider, San Francisco, CA (US);

Jenny Dana Wirtschafter, Mountain View, CA (US);

Simon John DE Lancey Gibbs, San Jose, CA (US);

Linghan Cai, Fremont, CA (US);

William Abdo Rouady, Jr., Purcellville, VA (US);

Inventors:

Richter A. Rafey, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Jacqueline L. Neider, San Francisco, CA (US);

Jenny Dana Wirtschafter, Mountain View, CA (US);

Simon John de Lancey Gibbs, San Jose, CA (US);

Linghan Cai, Fremont, CA (US);

William Abdo Rouady, Jr., Purcellville, VA (US);

Assignees:

Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;

Sony Electronics Inc., Park Ridge, NJ (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A system for and method of enabling people to share a common application context for media presentation and playback is described herein. The presentation results from input from a set of active participants where the input includes a set of media types such as music, artwork, visualizations, photographs and text messages. The participants use personal devices to couple to the system and utilize the application.


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