Patent ID: 8135865
Filing Date: 2012-03-13
Classification: G11B,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method, comprising: receiving, from a media service, one or more media items at a mobile device, the mobile device having a first media database and a second media database; storing the one or more media items in the first media database on the mobile device, where the first media database stores only media items that were received at the mobile device and that have not been synchronized with another database; detecting when the mobile device is coupled to a second device; when the mobile device is coupled to the second device, updating a third media database on the second device with the one or more media items, including metadata associated with the one or more media items, from the first media database on the mobile device; upon updating the third media database, deleting the one or more media items from the first media database on the mobile device; and copying the one or more media items from the third media database on the second device to the second media database on the mobile device.