公开(公告)号：US20060265409A1

公开(公告)日：2006-11-23

申请号：US11166332

申请日：2005-06-25

申请人： David Neumann ,  Ellis Verosub ,  Payam Mirrashidi ,  Mark Milller ,  Jonathan Leffert

发明人： David Neumann ,  Ellis Verosub ,  Payam Mirrashidi ,  Mark Milller ,  Jonathan Leffert

IPC分类号： G06F7/00 ,  G06F17/00

CPC分类号： G06F16/9535 ,  G06F16/44

摘要： Improved techniques that facilitate use of podcasts are disclosed. The improved techniques can pertain to creating, publishing, hosting, accessing, subscribing, managing, transferring, and/or playing podcasts. According to one aspect, a client application can facilitate discovery of a podcast of interest from a plurality of podcasts, subscribe to the podcast of interest, and provide subsequent management of the podcast of interest. The management of the podcast of interest can include acquiring updated podcast data with little or no user interaction required. According to another aspect, some or all podcasts locally available to a client application can be copied (e.g., synchronized) with a portable media device so that the podcasts can be conveniently available and played by either the client application or the portable media device.

摘要翻译： 公开了有助于使用播客的改进技术。 改进的技术可以涉及创建，发布，托管，访问，订阅，管理，传输和/或播放播客。 根据一个方面，客户端应用程序可以便于从多个播客中发现感兴趣的播客，订阅感兴趣的播客，并提供感兴趣的播客的后续管理。 感兴趣的播客的管理可以包括获取更新的播客数据，而不需要用户交互。 根据另一方面，可以将本地可用于客户端应用的一些或所有播客与便携式媒体设备复制（例如，同步），使得播客可以由客户端应用或便携式媒体设备方便地使用和播放。