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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 05, 2012
Filed:
Dec. 06, 2007
Woo Jae Lee, Manhattan, KS (US);
Jonathan R. Kindred, Olathe, KS (US);
Srinivasan Balaji Thenthiruperai, Prairie Village, KS (US);
Jonathan Cooper Ochenas, Lenexa, KS (US);
Woo Jae Lee, Manhattan, KS (US);
Jonathan R. Kindred, Olathe, KS (US);
Srinivasan Balaji Thenthiruperai, Prairie Village, KS (US);
Jonathan Cooper Ochenas, Lenexa, KS (US);
Sprint Communications Company L.P., Overland Park, KS (US);
Abstract
Systems, products, and methods are disclosed for providing an indication of unavailable media products. An illustrative method includes referencing one or more attributes of a currently present media file, based on the attributes, determining a set of absent media files that are related to the present media file but not currently available for presentation via the device, and presenting indications of at least a portion of the absent media files of the set. An indication of one or more absent media files may be presented to a user so that the user may recognize absent media files. In one embodiment, such an indication may include an identifier, such as text or a symbol, that is positioned adjacent a media attribute that describes the absent media file.