Patent ID: 8918485
Filing Date: 2014-12-23
Classification: G06F,G06Q,G07C,G11B,H04N,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method for playing music 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 registered users are present at the out-of-home pay-for-play establishment; in response to logged-in registered users selecting songs, collecting credits and adding the selected songs 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 logged-in registered users via their respective mobile devices, votes on the songs in the displayable portion of the queue, wherein tallied counts of votes placed by the logged-in registered users are displayable to the logged-in registered users; and causing songs from the queue to be played at the out-of-home pay-for-play establishment, wherein the portion of the queue, an indication of a currently playing song, and at least some tallied counts of votes are displayable on mobile devices that the logged-in registered users use to execute respective login operations, wherein the portion of the queue, at least some tallied counts of votes, and the indication of the currently playing song are displayable on a standalone display, wherein a catalog of songs from which songs are selectable is restrictable, independent of patron-specific actions, such that only a partial subset of songs is available for selection by the logged-in registered users at the out-of-home pay-for-play establishment, the catalog of songs being restrictable through specification of respective levels of music for a plurality of genres.