Patent ID: 7926085

Claim:
A system for providing a visual complement to an audio service, comprising: a first transmission system configured to transmit data to a second transmission system, wherein the second transmission system is configured to transmit the data to one or more audio/video receivers; an audio subsystem configured to select sound recordings according to a playlist and transmit a selected sound recording to the first transmission system for relay to the second transmission system; a storage device configured to store a plurality of video images; a memory that stores a data structure that associates one or more of the plurality of video images with the selected sound recording, wherein at least one of the one or more video images that are associated with the selected sound recording is associated with a time duration; and a video subsystem, wherein the audio subsystem is further configured to transmit to the video subsystem a trigger message after selecting a sound recording from a playlist, wherein the trigger message comprises an identifier associated with the selected sound recording, wherein the video subsystem is configured to generate a video image specification based, at least in part, on pre-defined configuration data and information included in the trigger message, and is configured to generate the video image specification in response to receiving the trigger message.