Patent ID: 7899389

Claim:
A method of operating a karaoke server to provide a karaoke service, the method comprising: receiving a plurality of performance requests associated with a plurality of mobile terminals; queuing the plurality of performance requests in a selected order to provide a karaoke performance schedule; receiving a performance schedule query from one of the plurality of mobile terminals; transmitting at least a portion of the karaoke performance schedule to the querying mobile terminal responsive to receiving the performance schedule query; identifying a next performance request based on the karaoke performance schedule; determining an end time of a current karaoke performance; transmitting a notification to one of the plurality of mobile terminals associated with the next performance request over a wireless connection at a predetermined time based on the determined end time; receiving audio data from the mobile terminal associated with the next performance request over a wireless connection responsive to transmitting the notification thereto; and providing the received audio data to audio equipment for output.