Patent ID: 8510847
Filing Date: 2013-08-13
Classification: G06F,G06Q,H04L,H04M,H04W,Y04S

Abstract:
1. A cellular mobile telephone device, comprising: a memory programmed with a software application that enables digital music tracks to be downloaded and used on the cellular mobile telephone device; in which (a) the software application enables an end-user to directly browse and search music tracks on a remote server using a cellular wireless network; and to download music tracks from that remote server using the cellular wireless network; (b) the software application includes or interacts with a digital rights management program whose operation is remotely configured (i) to enable unlimited legal downloads of different music tracks to the cellular mobile telephone device using the cellular wireless network whilst a subscription service between the cellular mobile telephone device and the remote server is valid for the cellular mobile telephone device or user associated with that cellular mobile telephone device and (ii) to enable any of those tracks stored on the cellular mobile telephone device to be played so long as the subscription service has not terminated; (c) the software application uses a multithreaded architecture to balance the computational demands of network and/or music track catalogue access; and a computational demand of one or more of: a user interface of the software application; the digital rights management program; media operations; and (d) the software application uses track meta-data that is formed as a separate meta-data layer and defines attributes of tracks, the meta-data being external to a music track to enable sharing and browsing of track information without needing to distribute the related music track files.