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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 02, 2014
Filed:
Sep. 10, 2010
Steve Schneider, San Diego, CA (US);
Steve Schneider, San Diego, CA (US);
Sony Computer Entertainment America LLC, San Mateo, CA (US);
Abstract
Managing playlists, comprising: displaying a current playlist and one or more playlists that intersect the current playlist at a current media item; selecting one of the following: (1) when a pivot command to pivot from the current playlist to a pivoted playlist is received, first moving to a next media item of the pivoted playlist, and displaying the pivoted playlist and one or more playlists that intersect the pivoted playlist at the next media item of the pivoted playlist; (2) otherwise when no pivot command is received, second moving to a next media item of the current playlist, and displaying the current playlist and one or more playlists that intersect the current playlist at the next media item of the current playlist.