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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 21, 2014
Filed:
Jul. 29, 2005
Timothy Bucher, Los Altos, CA (US);
Mark A. Ross, San Carlos, CA (US);
Timothy C. Nichols, Los Altos, CA (US);
Timothy Bucher, Los Altos, CA (US);
Mark A. Ross, San Carlos, CA (US);
Timothy C. Nichols, Los Altos, CA (US);
Dell Products L.P., Round Rock, TX (US);
Abstract
Automated acquisition of content including digital media for a device. A device such as a satellite radio can discover content from multiple data stream sources. The device then receives input from a user selecting or identifying specific content to acquire. The device, upon detecting an appropriate network that enables the device to communicate with a remote service or media repository, requests the content using a portion of the specific content such as metadata. The device then receives the content from the service or from the media repository. Often the received content is a higher quality version of the content whereas the portion of the content stored by the device may be lower quality. The user is notified after the content has been acquired.