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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 20, 2015
Filed:
Dec. 20, 2007
Jesse Lee Dorogusker, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Emily Clark Schubert, Los Altos, CA (US);
Donald J. Novotney, San Jose, CA (US);
Anthony M. Fadell, Portola Valley, CA (US);
Michael Benjamin Hailey, Campbell, CA (US);
Chris Bell, Pacifica, CA (US);
Steve Saro Gedikian, Cupertino, CA (US);
Robert Edward Borchers, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Jay Laefer, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Gregory Thomas Lydon, Santa Cruz, CA (US);
Lawrence G. Bolton, Fremont, CA (US);
Eric Oliver, Cupertino, CA (US);
Jesse Lee Dorogusker, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Emily Clark Schubert, Los Altos, CA (US);
Donald J. Novotney, San Jose, CA (US);
Anthony M. Fadell, Portola Valley, CA (US);
Michael Benjamin Hailey, Campbell, CA (US);
Chris Bell, Pacifica, CA (US);
Steve Saro Gedikian, Cupertino, CA (US);
Robert Edward Borchers, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Jay Laefer, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Gregory Thomas Lydon, Santa Cruz, CA (US);
Lawrence G. Bolton, Fremont, CA (US);
Eric Oliver, Cupertino, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
An accessory communicates with a portable media device ('PMD') to store tags associated with broadcasts in a file maintained in a storage medium of the accessory, where the tags contain information descriptive of a subset of the broadcast content. In one embodiment, the accessory sends commands to the PMD to create or open a tag file that resides on the PMD, write one or more tags to the file, and close the file. Stored tags can be used to access (e.g., purchase) tagged content by communicating with a media asset delivery service either via a host computer or directly from the PMD.