Robert F Kleemann

US Patent:

7672873, Mar 2, 2010

Filed:

Sep 10, 2004

Appl. No.:

10/938761

Inventors:

Bradley D. Kindig - San Diego CA, US
Robert F. Kleemann - San Diego CA, US
Sean Robert Sullivan - San Diego CA, US
Michael J. Kogan - San Diego CA, US
Sean Cornell Joshlin - San Marcos CA, US
Mark Alan Laffoon - San Diego CA, US
Daniel Davidson Baird - Carlsbad CA, US
Ameen Hikmat Abed - San Diego CA, US
Nathan Lavar Clegg - San Diego CA, US
Philip Mansiel Pellouchoud - San Diego CA, US
Kevin Sitze - San Diego CA, US
Amir Doron - San Diego CA, US

Assignee:

Yahoo! Inc. - Sunnyvale CA

International Classification:

G06Q 30/00

US Classification:

705 26, 705 37

Abstract:

An online music purchasing system and method is disclosed, in which a radio service operates on a user's computer and is configured for receiving and playing digital radio representations of media content in near real-time in a radio session. A content server is configured for serving the digital radio representations of media content to the radio service, and a radio sequence server is configured for serving a sequential list of currently-playing and previously-played media content of the radio session to the radio service. An account server is configured for receiving a signal indicative of a user's desire to purchase a file of one of a currently-playing or previously-played media content. A download manager is configured for downloading the file to the user's computer according to the signal indicative of the user's desire to purchase the file.