Method for delivering music content to a smart phone

摘要

A method of distributing media content using mobile communication devices including providing media access cards which promote selected media content to users of such devices whereby a user may access a web server associated with the media access cards and download application software enabling access to selected media content via a mobile device, the media access cards including a machine readable identification number code that identifies media content associated with the card whereby the application software facilitates reading and transmitting the code to a web server via the mobile device, receiving the identification number with the web server and using the identification number to locate a table value in a database wherein a plurality of media access cards identification numbers are associated with a media content table value, using the table value to identify media codes associated with the selected content server which transmits media to the mobile device.

主权项

1. A method of distributing media content using mobile communication devices, comprising:
providing a media access card to a user of a mobile communication device, the card promoting selected media content whereby a user may access a web server associated with the media access card with the user's mobile communication device and download application software enabling the user to access the selected media content with the user's mobile communication device, the card further including machine-readable code corresponding to an identification number, the identification number identifying media content associated with the card whereby the application software facilitates reading the machine readable code with the mobile communication device and transmitting the code to the web server with the mobile communication device; receiving the identification number with the web server and using the identification number to locate a table value in a database wherein identification numbers from a plurality of media access cards are each associated with a table value corresponding to media content associated with the access cards; using the table value to identify a media code associated with the selected media content in a content server whereupon the media code is transmitted to the mobile communications device whereby the mobile communication device may transmit the media code to the content server, the content server transmitting only a portion of the selected media content to the mobile communication device upon receiving the media code from the mobile communication device; and prompting the user to elect to purchase the entire selected media content.