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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 07, 2011
Filed:
Apr. 01, 2005
David Heller, San Jose, CA (US);
Jeffrey L. Robbin, Los Altos, CA (US);
Steven P. Jobs, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Timothy Wasko, High River, CA;
Jeff Miller, Mountain View, CA (US);
David Heller, San Jose, CA (US);
Jeffrey L. Robbin, Los Altos, CA (US);
Steven P. Jobs, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Timothy Wasko, High River, CA;
Jeff Miller, Mountain View, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
Improved techniques to utilize and manage a group of media items (or media assets) on a computing device are disclosed. The group of media items can be utilized and managed at a host computer for the host computer as well as a media device (e.g., media player) that can couple to the host computer. One popular example of a group of media items is know as a playlist, which can pertain to a group of audio tracks. One aspect pertains to a graphical user interface that enables a user to trade-off storage capacity of a media device between media asset storage and data storage. Another aspect pertains to a graphical user interface that assists a user with selecting media items to fill a group of media items. Still another aspect pertains to providing a persistent media device playlist at a host computer. Yet still another aspect pertains to imposing capacity limits to a playlist, such as a media device playlist.