Interface for audio visual device

Details Interface for audio visual device Interface for audio visual device

2002-02-15

2009-10-06

Tran, Thai (Department: 2621)

Motion video signal processing for recording or reproducing

Local trick play processing

With randomly accessible medium

C386S349000, C369S030080

Reexamination Certificate

active

07599610

ABSTRACT:
A system is disclosed that provides access to a large amount of content using a traditional interface. The system has many applications, one of which is for providing access to audio/visual content. Examples of audio/visual content includes compressed digital music data and video data. In one embodiment, the system receives an indication of a first mode, accesses a first playlist for the first mode, and plays tracks according to the first playlist. In this embodiment, each mode is associated with a different attribute, each mode includes one or more playlists of tracks, and each playlist of a particular mode is based on a different value for the attribute associated with the particular mode. Examples of attributes include artist, album, genre, etc. Thus, there can be an artist mode, an album node, a genre mode, etc. For example, each playlist in the artist mode is associated with a particular artist. All tracks on a given playlist in the artist mode would be associated with the same artists.

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