SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION 0007 To overcome limitations in the prior art described
above, and to overcome other limitations that will become apparent upon reading and …

Methods, systems, apparatus and non-transitory computer readable-media are described for
creating and/or maintaining a playback queue of media content. In one aspect, a computer …

(57) ABSTRACT A system and method are provided for enabling a portable media player to
obtain media content from secondary sys tems, such as other portable media players, via …

Methods, systems, and apparatus are presented for providing unlimited access to either or
both of media content, Such as music, and applications. A media server environment can be …

US PATENT DOCUMENTS such as music recommendations, based on information iden
tifying media recently played by a select group of heavy in? uencers for a subscription fee …

BACKGROUND Computer users often need to disconnect from a network and work offline,
such as when traveling, working at home, or at times when the network is down. As a result …

Reclaim residual physical memory space previously occupied by transaction records of at
least one identified set of transaction records reclaimed for further use (eg, to store further …

(Continued) identify one or more have been committed in the file system, the physical
memory used by the original transaction records in the set may be reclaimed for further use …

(57) ABSTRACT A system and method for archiving a user's media collection are provided.
In general, a central archiving system stores high-quality versions of a number of known …

BACKGROUND Communication and computing technologies are starting to converge into a
single wireless mobile device with continu ously decreasing form factors. For example …