US 7,457,676 B1
Vehicle for recording and reproducing digital data
Sehat Sutardja, Los Altos Hills, Calif. (US); Peter Loc, Santa Clara, Calif. (US); Hedley Rainnie, Santa Clara, Calif. (US); and Eric Janofsky, Sunnyvale, Calif. (US)
Assigned to Marvell International Ltd., Hamilton (Bermuda)
Filed on Jun. 26, 2002, as Appl. No. 10/184,302.
Application 10/184302 is a continuation in part of application No. 09/659693, filed on Sep. 11, 2000.
Claims priority of provisional application 60/211874, filed on Jun. 14, 2000.
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. G06F 17/00 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 700—94 51 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An apparatus comprising:
a vehicle; and
a media player/recorder physically connected with the vehicle, the media player/recorder comprising:
a wireless receiver to receive a signal representing encoded media data;
a storage device to store the encoded media data;
a programmed processor that is programmed as
a) a storage controller to retrieve the encoded media data from the storage device, and
b) a digital signal processor to decode the encoded media data retrieved by the storage controller; and
an output circuit to output the decoded media data from the processor;
wherein the storage device stores a list of identifiers of desired encoded media selections;
wherein the wireless receiver receives a signal representing an identifier of an offered encoded media selection; and
wherein the storage device stores the offered encoded media selection when the identifier of the offered encoded media selection corresponds to the identifier of one of the desired encoded media selections.