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`London W11 1JH (GB). POCOCK, Stephen, William
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`Road, London SW14 8RS (GB). SULLIVAN, Mark,
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`(GB). EVANS, Christopher, John [GB/GB]; 31 Ridley
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`(54) Title: A METHOD OF PROVIDING DIGITAL RIGHTS MANAGEMENT FOR MUSIC CONTENT BY MEANSOF A
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`(57) Abstract: The invention enablesdigital music content to be downloadedto and used on a portable wireless computing device.
`An application running on the witeless device has been automatically adapted to parameters associated with the wireless device
`> without end-user input (e.g. the application has been configured in dependence on the device OS and firmware, related bugs, screen
`© size, pixel number, security models, connection handling, memory etc.. This application enables an end-user to browse and search
`music content on a remote server using a wireless network; to download music content from that remote server using the wireless
`network and to playback and manage that downloaded music content. The application also includes a digital rights management
`system that enables unlimited legal downloadsof different music tracks to the device and also enables -any of those tracks stored on
`the device to be played so long as a subscription service has not terminated.
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`A METHOD OF ENABLING DIGITAL MUSIC CONTENT TO BE
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`DOWNLOADED TO AND USED ON A PORTABLE WIRELESS COMPUTING
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`BACKGROUNDOF THE INVENTION
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`1. Field of the Invention
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`This invention relates to a method of enabling digital music content to be downloaded to and
`used on a portable wireless computing device. The term ‘portable wireless computing device’
`used in this patent specification should be expansively construed to cover any kind of portable
`device with two way wireless communication capabilities and includes without limitation tadio
`telephones, mobile telephones, smatt phones, communicators, personal computers, computers
`and application specific devices. It includes devices able to communicate in any manner overt any
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`2. Description of the Prior Art
`Thepast few years have seen enormouschanges in the way music is distributed and consumed,
`The traditional method, where the consumer buys a physical product in a shop andlistenstoit
`at home,has declined, and total worldwide revenue for the music industry has dropped from a
`little under $40bn in 2000 to $31bn in 2005. Meanwhile there has been an enormous upsurge in
`the distribution of digital music over the intemnet,initially in the form of illegal file shating, but
`latterly more and more as paid for downloads. Portable digital audio players
`(DAPs),
`exemplified by the Apple iPod™, have had a dramatic effect on the global music marketplace.
`Just five yeats after the introduction of the first portable digital audio player, digital music sales
`global have already grown to well over $5bn in 2005.
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`To reverse these trends, the music labels are now turning their attentions to putsuing the
`mobile market, where music is sold via mobile phones (or other kinds of portable wireless
`device) and distributed over the cellular witeless network. The potential value is already clear
`from the explosive growth of the ringtone market, and both the music labels and mobile
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`network operators MNOsbelieve that mobile full-track music could provide more revenue,
`better security and improved pricing compared to digital music on a PC.
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`The mobile phone has some distinct advantages over the iPod and other DAPs. As well as
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`playing music, mobile phones are connected to an increasingly fast, secure witeless network
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`where usets can locate and share music on the move and pay for content using the MNO's
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`inbuilt and convenient billing facilities.
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`Increasing innovation from the mobile handset
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`manufacturers is helping to move the market forward.
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`There ate still significant challenges ahead, however. The teliance on mobile internet
`technology WAP (Witeless Application Protocol) as the primaty meansofselling full music
`contentis limiting. The technology is unfriendly, slow and cumbersome for usets. Indeed, the
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`world's largest mobile phone group, Vodafone Global, has avoided selling full music _
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`downloads on anything but top-of-the-range 3G phones because of the end-user difficulties
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`associated with WAP. Many other operators have been forced to take a similar approach. This
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`has limited the take-up of full music download services - only a small minority of mobile phone
`subscribers can use ot have access to 3G. In the relatively mature 2005 UK market, less than
`half a million of Vodafone's 14.4 million customers have 3G - a market penetration of around
`3%. Many other operators have no or only very limited 3G penetration.
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`of-the-range 3G handsets. Even when devices ate marketed as top-of-the-range music phones
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`Two alternatives to WAP based acquisition of full music content are currently favoured:
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`* Streamed services, which offer users a personalised radio service streamed to their handset.
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`* Music shop applications, running locally on a mobile telephone, and which offer users the
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`Streaming radio solutions are however a niche marketplace. The requirement for a constant
`data: connection and the lack of full user control of what a user listens to means the consumer
`proposition and appeal is limited. Streaming solutions also suffer limited handset reach and a
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`requirement for high speed (usually 3G) data connection. Operatots implementing such
`“setvices must also plan and invest for a significant network burden - all music tracks must be
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`redownloaded every time they are played.
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`Music shop applications offer a more compelling user proposition but also suffer limited
`handset reach, with a focus on 3G and niche Symbian handsets. The uset experience on such
`devicesis also limited currently with competitor products offering only limiter pay per track
`setvices and with limited functionality that fails to apptoach the richness of a high quality DAP.
`This limited functionality, combined with relatively small music catalogues, has severely limited
`the appeal ofthese solutionsto date.
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`Thepresent invention provides a matute, reliable and convenient solution which will enable
`usets to easily acquire,listen to and manage music on portable wireless computing devices.
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`An implementation is called MusicStation™. MusicStation provides a method of enabling
`digital music content to be downloaded to and used on a portable wireless computing device,
`the method comprising the steps of:
`the application having been
`(a)a software application running on the witeless device,
`automatically adapted to parametets associated with the wireless device without end-user input;
`(b)the application enabling an end-user to browse and search music content on a temoteserver
`using a wireless network; to download music content from that remote server using the wireless |
`network and to playback and manage that downloaded music content;
`(c)the application including a digital rights management system that enables unlimited legal -
`downloads of different music tracks to the device and also enables any of those tracks stored
`on the device to be played so long as a subsctiption service has not terminated.
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`This invention has the promise of being genuinely transformative of the way people acquire
`and listen to digital music.
`It brings together, for the first time, a number of technologies
`which operate synergistically to provide a total solution thatis significantly greater than the sum
`of its parts. For example, because the application can be automatically adapted to parameters
`associated with the wireless computing device without end-user input, it becomes feasible to
`automatically provision very large numbers of portable wireless devices with the application
`(either prior to sale, or to allow users to download and install the application —e.g. by simply
`giving a temote server the correct portable wireless device make and model number).
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`installed base of mobile telephones, for example, could therefore readily run into the tens, if
`not hundreds of millions — far larger than any DAP. The application also enables an end-user
`to browse and search music content on a temote setvet using a witeless network; to download
`music content from that remoteserver using the wireless network and to playback and manage
`that downloaded music content: hence, not only will the installed base greatly exceed any DAP
`solution, the functionality will be better than any DAP becauseit will be possible to search and-
`acquite new music directly from the device over the wireless network(this is a far more natural
`ptocess than acquiting music via a web based on-line catalogue using a desktop machine and
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`then synching a DAP with the desktop machine). Finally, the application includes a digital
`tights management system that enables unlimited legal downloads of different music tracks to
`the device and also enables any of those tracks stored on the device to be played so long as a
`subscription service has not terminated. This allows usets to explore new music fat more
`effectively than before and, with rapidly decreasing memoty costs, to store thousands of music
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`tracks on even mid-range devices. Music companieswill be willing to make entire catalogues of
`music available because of the robust DRM model, the hugeinstalled user base and the ease of
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`exploring and acquiting new music. This creates a positive feedback, with more and better
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`content attracting more users, in turn attracting more content.
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`MusicStation has a number of key advantages over its competitors:
`* A comprehensive andintuitive uset experience that wrapsall music functions;
`* Compatibility with a wider range of handsets than any competitor, as a result of the Device
`Adaptive Architecture (DAA — see below for more details), which ensures the software
`application runs on almostall music-capable handsets (irrespective of model or manufacturer)
`and looks and operates in a practically identical fashion on all of them.
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`MusicStation maximises the benefits of the mobile phone. Unlike DAPs, where music can only
`be acquired in the home, MusicStation users can discover and acquite new music anywhere;
`* MusicStation does not need a PC, broadband, iTunesor a credit card to work.
`* MusicStation supports innovative new models like AYCE (all-you-can-eat — ie. unlimited
`downloads) and uset community features such as making friends and sharingplaylists.
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`The MusicStation Product
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`MusicStation is designed to be the key enabling technology that will enable the mass-adoption
`of the mobile phone as the successor to the unconnected Digital Audio Player (DAP). To
`ensure success,
`the design and development
`team have focused on the following key
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`° A User Experience that Beats the Best DAP
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`The traditional native playet on mobile phones has been second rate when compared to the
`best DAPs. MusicStation provides an interface that is as complete as any market-leading DAP
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`* Maximising the Benefits of Connectivity
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`The mobile phoneis an “Almost Always Connected” (AAC) device, so a handset-based music
`ptoduct can enable music purchasing directly when on the move, not just when it is physically
`attached to an internet-connected PC.
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`* Ensuring No Reliance on a PC
`An integrated handset product should not require the user to own a btoadband-connected PC
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`at all. This is particularly key in developing markets where mobile phone usets do not generally
`have access to such technology, nor indeed a credit card. Where usets do have access to a PC
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`they should be able to access music and playlists whether they ate at their desk or on on-the-
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`* Enabling Direct Billing
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`A mobile music application should be able to leverage on thebilling relationship between the
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`consumer and the MNO.By providing a much more convenient one-touch billing method for
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`content purchase - irrespective of location - music sales can be truly maximised, especially
`compared with an at-desk, web-based credit card application, with a cumbersome registration
`process which also requites a difficult synchronisation requirement with the portable device.
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`* Enabling Wite-free Listening
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`An on-handset music application must be able to use the Bluetooth functionality available in
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`many mobile handsets to allow music to be played and shared with other Bluetooth enabled
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`devices such as wireless headphones, in-car stereos and hi-fi systems.
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`* Taking Advantage of 24x7 Availability
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`The mobile phoneis the electronic device mostlikely to be present with a user 24/7, giving a
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`* Giving Users Community Features
`As an Almost Always Connected (AAC) device, the mobile phone can deliver community
`interaction features on-the move, the key to enabling improved consumer music discovery
`through shared playlists and playlist charts generated by users. This is a key advantage over the
`unconnected DAP.
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`* Making the most of a Fortuitous Handset Roadmap
`The vast majority of handsets will be music capable by Q1 2007- even if they are not actively
`promoted or branded as a music phone by the MNO or manufacturer. To maximise revenue
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`potential, any music application should be available for every music-capable handset, be it 2.5G
`ot 3G, whatever the manufactuter, enabling MNOsto consider full download tnusic as a mass
`market opportunity for the first time.
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`MusicStation has been designed around these key requirements. The end result genuinely able
`to turn the vast majority of music-capable handsets into “Super-DAPs”. Critically, MusicStation
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`gives all the performance and user experience quality of a DAP (in terms of music playing and
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`management), whilst also offering all the browse, search, acquire, playlist and celebrity playlist
`features of leading PC based on-line music stores. On top it offers music users tribal
`community features, which can improve their music discovety process - and personalised news
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`and views (neither of which are available on any DAP).
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`Other key features include:
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`* A single user intuitive interface which wraps all music play/playlist management/content
`acquisition/news/community functionality;
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`seatching/browsing,etc);
`° Intelligent Parallel Downloading technology, allowing for intelligent caching of favourite
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`* Inbuilt network awareness (Features and interface intelligently adapt depending on level of
`network connectivity available - 3G/2.5G/0G);
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`* Direct billing integration (enabling extremely convenient one-touch billing without
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`part of the billing infrastructure provided by a network operator that controls the wireless
`network;
`* Industry standard music file protection .by DRM. The DRM also enables the purchase of a
`music track such that the track canstill be playedif the subscription service is tetminated.
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`Being a connected application, unlike DAPs, MusicStation is able to offer an All-You-Can-Eat
`(AYCE) weekly or daily subsctiption package directly from the handset for the first time. There
`is much evidence that the average music revenue pet AYCE subscriber is substantially higher
`than that from a traditional PPT (pay per track) user. To date most AYCE implementations
`have been desktop-based subscriptions rather than being sold on a connected mobile device.
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`Device Adaptive Architecture (DAA)
`One ofthe biggest problems for mobile applications to date has been the difficulty of porting
`applications onto new handsets and delivering applications that work across multiple handset
`manufacturers and models. Resolving this challenge is one of the most important technical
`difficulties that MusicStation addresses. Device Adaptive Architecture (DAA)is the solution.
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`In essence, DAA enables MusicStation to be deployed on more mobile phones than any
`competitor. It is also enables MusicStation to ported to new handsets in hours rather than
`weeks ot months — with the creation of a manufacturer and handset model specific version of
`the application in each case.
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`Until DAA,all mobile applications - be they music-specific or mote generalised - suffered
`limited handset teach. Typical obstructions included:
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`* Manufacturer variations in handset design/memoty capabilities;
`* OS and firmware release and related bugs;
`* Scteen size, pixel number, colour depth, keypad control and softkey variations;
`* Physical size;
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`* Computing horsepowet and other computational resoutces.
`* Memory
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`* Network capabilities and handling of the device, including one or more of CSD, GPRS, 2G,
`2.5G, 3G, WAP, SMS, Bluetooth, Infrared, Wi-Fi, WiMAX.
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`Tn essence, features vary wildly by handset and by manufacture rand also netwotk operator -
`and many handsets may suffer bugs in their implementation. Device Adaptive Architecture
`(DAA) tesolves these issues and enables the product to be ported automatically to the vast
`majority of all music-capable 2.5G and 3G handsets in record time. DAA captures patametets
`associated with these various features and allows an application to be automatically custom
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`details on DAA may be found in WO 2006/061595,the contents of which are incorporated by
`reference.
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`It is also critically important to note that MusicStation's reference platform is Java. A few
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`competitive products have been built on the easy-to-address Symbian platform. Whilst it is
`telatively easy to build applications for this platform, it does not offer the opportunity for a
`mass-matket music proposition. Less than 10% of handsets globally have Symbian on board
`and many of those ate business-focused handsets. Java is the most widely adopted mobile
`platform andcritical to handset teach. It is available on almost all medium and high end
`handsets. The combination ofJava and DAA technology means MusicStation can be delivered
`to mote consumers than any other technology - andcritically act, look and feel almost identical
`irrespective of manufacturer or model. MusicStation will be available in Java, Symbian,
`Windows Mobile, Linux and BREW.
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`onetab,if selected, gives details of the track that is currently playing
`one tab: if selected, provides access to community and newsfeatures.
`one tab, if selected, displays the current queue of tracks for listening and/or
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`the application present a graphical user interface in which multiple screens show a
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`‘more’ menu itemthat is context sensitive and, if selected, provides access to further functions
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`relevant to a curtently selected item and/or the currently displayed screen.
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`the application is controlled using a multi-tasking context sensitive joystick; the specific
`function of the joystick is shown by an on-screen icon aboveit. The operation of the joystick is
`replicated by numeric keys in the keypad, eg. the numeric key 5 is up; 0 is down; 7 is left and 9
`is right.
`© the application provides a context appropriate acquire function in which a function
`equivalent to ‘Get New Artist’ is at the same level in the menu as ‘Artist’. A function
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`equivalent to Get New Track is on the same level in the menu as the menulisting of tracks for
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`the application enables one device to act as a master playback device such that other
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`witelessly connected portable wireless devices playback the same music track,
`in time
`synchronisation. The wireless connection can be a short tange witeless connection, such as
`Bluetooth.
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`the application provides a dedicated ‘play’ numeric key which always toggles back to the
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`play screen, which showsthe track currently being played.
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`the application ptovides variable timeouts, with different screens have different
`timeouts — e.g. a seatch screen never snaps back but a news screen snaps back after 20 seconds,
`compared with a standard navigation screen, that might snap back after 7 seconds.
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`the application displays targeted news filtered according to the end-uset’s playback
`habits.
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`the application tracks, and feeds back to a remote server, detailed end-userlistening
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`data. The data includes how long tracks have been listened to, what tracks are skipped through
`and when. The data can be locally cached on the device and then sent back to the server as a
`piggyback over a communication that happens anyway. The device will pre-emptively send the
`data back without waiting for the communication expected to happen anyway, only if the user
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`This data can be used to entich a music
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`suggestion engine that provides music track suggestions for display on the device.
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`all functions of the application ate available during music playback.
`the functions available during playback include news acquisition, as well as music track
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`seatch, browse, and acquire.
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`Another aspect is a portable wireless computing device that enables digital music content to be
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`(a)a softwate application running on the wireless device,
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`automatically adapted to parametets associated with the wireless device without end-user input; .
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`and in which:
`(b)the application enables an end-user to browse and search music content on a remote setver
`using a wireless network; to download music content from that remote server using the wireless
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`network and to playback and manage that downloaded music content; and
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`(c)the application including a digital rights management system that enables unlimited legal
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`downloads of different music tracks to the device and also enables any of those tracks stored
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`on the device to be played so long as a subscription service has not terminated.
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`A third aspect is a software application that enables digital music content to be downloaded and
`used on a portable wireless computing device;
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`(a) the application running on the wireless device, the application having been automatically
`adapted to parameters associated with the witeless device without end-uset input; and in which:
`(b)the application enables an end-user to browse and search music content on a remote server
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`using a witeless network; to download music content from that remote server using the wireless
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`network and to playback and manage that downloaded music content; and
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`downloads of different music tracks to the device and also enables any of those tracks stored
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`A final aspect is a music track that has been downloaded using the software application defined
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`Definitions
`Mobile Telephone: A type of telephone which is connected to the telephone network via
`wireless technology through the air rather than through a physical wite or other physical
`connection or form of cable.
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`Mobile Phone, Phone, Mobile, Mobile Handset or Handset: A type of Mobile Telephone.
`Mobile Network: A network which provides wireless connectivity for Mobile Telephones so
`that they can opetate and provide functions such as making telephone calls ot accessing
`network-resident data or services.
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`Mobile Network Operator (MNO): A companyor organisation which opetates a Mobile
`Network and the subscribers orusers who use Mobile Telephones on that network.
`Global Mobile Network or Mobile Phone Network: The sum of all Mobile Networks
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`operated by Mobile Network Operators in the world.
`Wireless Network: A network which provides wireless connectivity to client computing
`devices. Such a network includes Wi-Fi, WiMAX and the Global Mobile Network.
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`Server: A networked computing device which exists to provide networked application services,
`features and functions such as information supply, database seatch and transactions to one or
`more client computing devices which make connection to it and make requests for services
`from it. There are generally manyclients to each server and each client is usually of a smaller
`size and of smaller computing capability than the server.
`Services: The networked computing services, features and functions which are typically
`provided by a Server to one ot more network connected client computing devices. Services
`include information supply, database seatch and transactions. Such services are architecturally
`ptactical to deploy centrally in the network and typically impractical to deploy on a client
`computer due to the client’s size and power.
`Client: A computing device connected to a network delivering the features and functions of a
`network-centric application to the user or consumer of the application. The Client typically
`connects to a Server and requests Setvices.
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`Network Application: A type of application ot service that is network-centric, in that it is
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`application’s interface to the end user or consumer, supported and complemented by Setvices
`provided by softwate on a Server which ate accessed by the Client over a network.
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`Witeless Computing Device: A type of Client which connects to the network via a Witeless
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`Network. Such devices include Mobile Telephones, Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs), Games
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`Consoles (e.g. Sony PSP) or other wirelessly network connected client computing devices. The
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`type of the Wireless Computing Device is further defined by it’s Manufacturer, Make, Vetsion,
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`Operating System, Firmware Version.
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`Wireless Device or Wireless Client: A type of Wireless Computing Device.
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`Software Application: The Client software application which is to be delivered over-the-air to,
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`or pre-installed on, the Wireless Computing Device.
`Software Components: Individual units of software which form the components of the
`Software Application which is being customised for the WirelessComputer Device and part of
`the Device Adaptive Architecture (DAA) software library.
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`Mobile Content: Digital files and data representing electronic products used by, consumed,
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`played, viewed or rendered on Mobile Phones. Examples include tingtones/ring tunes,
`wallpapers/pictures,
`screensavets/animations,
`realtones/truetones,
`full: music downloads,
`video, SMS & MMS alerts, mobile games, and many other current andemerging Mobile Phone
`consumable entertainment and information products.
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`Metadata: Individual items of data or collections of data, potentially hierarchically related,
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`which describe the attributes or behaviour of Wireless Computing Devices, Witeless Networks,
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`Software Components, Network Applications or Mobile Content.
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`BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
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`Figure 1 is a Scheduler class diagram.
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`Figure 2 is Client Schedules a task.
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`Figure3is UI thread addsa task to the queue.
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`Figure 4 is an exampleofa binary heap.
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`Figure 5 is Binaty heap stored in an array.
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`Figute 6 is State diagram for a Task.
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`Figure 7 is cache upper and lowerlimits for each type of data objects.
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`Figure 8 is Data objects used to configure exceptions.
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`Figute 9 is Device specific exception.
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`_ Figure 10 is Screen Captures — Get new... option.
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`Figure 11 is Personalised Menu Item and Recommendations Contained.
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`Figure 12 is Screen capture — rating an item.
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`Figure 13 is Screen capture — News.
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`Figure 14 is Screen capture — Buzz member recommendations.
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