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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 04, 2013
Filed:
Dec. 20, 2007
Jesse Lee Dorogusker, Los Altos, CA (US);
Emily Clark Schubert, San Jose, CA (US);
Michael Benjamin Hailey, Campbell, CA (US);
Steve Saro Gedikian, San Francisco, CA (US);
Gregory Thomas Lydon, Santa Cruz, CA (US);
Lawrence G. Bolton, Fremont, CA (US);
Jesse Lee Dorogusker, Los Altos, CA (US);
Emily Clark Schubert, San Jose, CA (US);
Michael Benjamin Hailey, Campbell, CA (US);
Steve Saro Gedikian, San Francisco, CA (US);
Gregory Thomas Lydon, Santa Cruz, CA (US);
Lawrence G. Bolton, Fremont, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
An accessory communicates with a PMD to store tags associated with broadcasts in a file maintained in a storage medium of the accessory. In one embodiment, the accessory sends a command to the PMD to create or open a tag file that resides on the PMD. Once opened, the tag file is held open by the PMD until the accessory closes it (or disconnects), allowing multiple tags to be written to one file. Each time the user requests a new tag, the accessory generates a tag containing information descriptive of the broadcast material (e.g., song title, artist, radio station identifier, time of tagging, etc.) and writes the tag to the tag file using a write command to the PMD.