Patent ID: 9513774
Filing Date: 2016-12-06
CPC Classification: G06F,G06Q,G07C,G11B,H04N,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method for playing music from a catalog of playable songs in an out-of-home pay-for-play establishment, the method comprising: enabling a plurality of registered users to execute respective login operations via respective mobile devices to indicate that the respective users are present at the out-of-home pay-for-play establishment; in response to a first logged-in registered user selecting a song, adding the selected song to a queue of songs to be played back at the out-of-home pay-for-play establishment, at least a portion of the queue being displayable for the registered users; and receiving, from a second logged-in registered user via the mobile device of the second logged-in registered user, a vote on one or more of the songs in the displayable portion of the queue; and causing songs from the queue to be played at the out-of-home pay-for-play establishment, wherein the portion of the queue and corresponding tallied votes for songs in the portion of the queue are viewable via the mobile devices that the logged-in registered users used to execute their respective login operations, and wherein songs are selectable from a plurality of predefined playlists accessible to users, the predefined playlists including at least one of each of: a playlist generated by a registered user, a playlist of songs popular at the out-of-home pay-for-play establishment, and a playlist of songs known to be liked by a logged-in registered user making a selection.