New Innovations from Sony Ericsson: Location Dependent Music Search

Sony Ericsson continues to create handset innovations. After a while ago they’ve created the Shake music control founded it their Walkman Series like W580i or W910i that enables users to change songs by shaking, the Swedish-Japanese handset manufacturer has officially patented a so-called Location Dependent Music Search at 8^th May 2008.

Here is a simple explanation based on its patent abstract:

A portable device may perform a location dependent music search. During the search, the portable device determines location information that identifies a location of the portable device, makes a request that includes the location information to a database, obtains a list of music sources associated with the location information from the database as a result of a search performed based on the request, selects a music source from the list, and outputs an audio signal associated with the selected music source.

If you still don’t get it with description up there, please continue to read these paragraphs from the patent content:

Many people associate a physical location or a place to songs or pieces of music. In visiting or arriving at the place, they may remember the songs or the pieces of music and wish to hear them. They may also appreciate being supplied, automatically or after a request, information about the songs or pieces of music associated with the place.

According to one aspect, a method may comprise determining location information that identifies a location of a portable device, making a request that includes the location information to a database, obtaining a list of music sources associated with the location information from the database as a result of a search performed based on the request, selecting a music source from the list, and outputting an audio signal associated with the selected music source.

So bottom line is the new technology will use GPS or a similar mapping method to tie songs to a specific location.

Via: 3GWeek

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