Patents by Inventor Robert F. Kleemann

Robert F. Kleemann has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Music purchasing and playing system and method
    Patent number: 7672873
    Abstract: An online music purchasing system and method is disclosed, in which a radio service operates on a user's computer and is configured for receiving and playing digital radio representations of media content in near real-time in a radio session. A content server is configured for serving the digital radio representations of media content to the radio service, and a radio sequence server is configured for serving a sequential list of currently-playing and previously-played media content of the radio session to the radio service. An account server is configured for receiving a signal indicative of a user's desire to purchase a file of one of a currently-playing or previously-played media content. A download manager is configured for downloading the file to the user's computer according to the signal indicative of the user's desire to purchase the file.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2010
    Assignee: Yahoo! Inc.
    Inventors: Bradley D. Kindig, Robert F. Kleemann, Sean Robert Sullivan, Michael J. Kogan, Sean Cornell Joshlin, Mark Alan Laffoon, Daniel Davidson Baird, Ameen Hikmat Abed, Nathan Lavar Clegg, Philip Mansiel Pellouchoud, Kevin Sitze, Amir Doron