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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 28, 2012
Filed:
Oct. 18, 2006
Andrew Bert Hodge, Palo Alto, CA (US);
David John Tupman, San Francisco, CA (US);
Guy Bar-nahum, San Francisco, CA (US);
Andrew Bert Hodge, Palo Alto, CA (US);
David John Tupman, San Francisco, CA (US);
Guy Bar-Nahum, San Francisco, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
A portable media device and a method for operating a portable media device are disclosed. According to one aspect, a battery-powered portable media device can manage use of a mass storage device to efficiently utilize battery power. By providing a cache memory and loading the cache memory so as to provide skip support, battery power for the portable media device can be conserved (i.e., efficiently consumed). According to another aspect, a portable media device can operate efficiently in a seek mode. The seek mode is an operational mode of the portable media device in which the portable media device automatically scans through media items to assist a user in selecting a desired one of the media items.