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U.S. Patent Application: US20180039456

Patent Title

Mobile information apparatus that includes voice commands for playing digital content that is received from a digital content service provided over the internet

Meta Information

Appl. No.: 15/785190
Filed: Oct. 16, 2017
Inventor: William Ho Chang et al
External Links: UPSTO, Google Patents

Technical Fields

Smart Phone / Tablet, Smart Watch, Laptop

Abstract

Mobile information apparatus (e.g., smart phone, Internet appliances, information pad) and software applications of the mobile information apparatus supporting voice commands for receiving and playing digital content from a service provided over a network (e.g., Internet) are herein disclosed and enabled. The mobile information apparatus may receive, via a touch sensitive screen interface, security information to access a wireless local area network and to access the service over the Internet. The service may be a paid or subscribed service. While connected to the service, the mobile information apparatus may receive voice commands from the user for outputting or playing selected digital content that is available at the service, and, in response to the voice commands, the mobile information apparatus receives, from the service, output data related to the selected digital content for outputting or playing at the output system.

Sample Claim

A mobile information apparatus for receiving digital content from one or more servers over a network, the one or more servers, operated, at least in part, by a service over the network that includes the Internet, the digital content includes audio digital content or video digital content, individually or in any combination, the mobile information apparatus comprising:

one or more processors;

operating system software;

memory or storage;

a touch sensitive screen interface for interacting with a user;

one or more software applications stored, at least partly, in the memory or the storage, and the one or more software applications is executable by the one or more processors and facilitated, at least in part, by the operating system software for accessing the service;

a microphone;

a voice activated command interface for interacting with the user;

wireless communication circuitry for establishing a wireless local area network connection; and

one or more output devices for outputting or playing the digital content;

wherein the mobile information apparatus:

(1) receives, using the touch sensitive screen interface, security information for establishing the wireless local area network connection;

(2) establishes, using the wireless communication circuitry of the mobile information apparatus, a wireless connection to the wireless local area network, the establishing of the wireless connection to the wireless local area network is based, at least in part, on the security information received in (1);

(3) wirelessly accesses, via the wireless communication circuitry and using the wireless local area network connection established in (2), the network that includes the Internet;

(4) wirelessly connects, via the wireless communication circuitry and by using the one or more software applications, to the service by accessing the one or more servers, operated, at least in part, by the service over the network, the wireless connection to the service is based on the mobile information apparatus having accessed the network in (3);

(5) receives, using the voice activated command interface of the mobile information apparatus, a voice command from the user, the voice command is related to outputting or playing selected digital content that is available from the service, the selected digital content includes at least one of audio digital content or video digital content, individually or in any combination, and the receiving of the voice command from the user is based on the mobile information apparatus being connected to the service in (4);

(6) wirelessly transmits, using the wireless communication circuitry of the mobile information apparatus, a digital content object from the mobile information apparatus to the one or more servers over the network, the digital content object includes information related to the selected digital content in (5) or voice data related to the selected digital content in (5), individually or in any combination; and

(7) wirelessly receives, using the wireless communication circuitry at the mobile information apparatus, output data from the one or more servers over the network, the wireless receiving of the output data being in response to having transmitted the digital content object in (6), and at least part of the output data includes audio data or video data, individually or in any combination, that is related to the selected digital content in (5).