Patent ID: 7319856

Claim:
A method for choosing, for transmitting and for playing back pieces of music by subscribers to a digital mobile communications system, comprising: storing a large number of pieces of music in digital form in a databank server; providing a system allowing a subscriber to modify settings and to store a subscriber profile on the databank server; selecting the databank server by a mobile terminal via the mobile communications system, the databank server being included in the infrastructure of the mobile communications system and being selected by the subscriber using an associated telephone number; choosing a desired piece of music; transmitting the chosen piece of music in the form of digital audio data from the databank server via the mobile communications system to the mobile terminal where it is played back; providing a unique subscriber identification/authentication for access to the databank server through the mobile communications system, the mobile communications system acting as a pure transport network for the digital audio data; and charging for use of the databank server via the mobile communications system.