Communicating and storing information associated with media broadcasts

摘要

An accessory communicates with a portable media device (“PMD”) to store tags associated with broadcasts in a file maintained in a storage medium of the accessory, where the tags contain information descriptive of a subset of the broadcast content. In one embodiment, the accessory sends commands to the PMD to create or open a tag file that resides on the PMD, write one or more tags to the file, and close the file. Stored tags can be used to access (e.g., purchase) tagged content by communicating with a media asset delivery service either via a host computer or directly from the PMD.

主权项

1. A method performed by an accessory communicably coupled to a portable media device (“PMD”), wherein the accessory and the PMD are separate electronic devices, the method comprising:
receiving, by the accessory, broadcast data including a first track; determining, by the accessory, whether the first track is to be tagged; and in response to determining that the first track is to be tagged:
capturing, by the accessory, identifying information for the first track from the broadcast data;obtaining, by the accessory, a metadata item associated with the first track from a source other than a source of the received broadcast data;generating, by the accessory, a first tag comprising the identifying information for the first track and the metadata item; andinstructing, by the accessory, the PMD to store the first tag in a storage medium of the PMD.