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Method for displaying menu based on service environment analysis in content execution apparatus

  • US 10,332,566 B2
  • Filed: 12/04/2008
  • Issued: 06/25/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/06/2007
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for displaying a menu including a plurality of menu icons for providing services based on a service environment analysis in a content execution apparatus, wherein the content execution apparatus is disk media playback apparatuses including a Blu-ray disk playback apparatus and a HD-DVD playback apparatus, the method comprising steps of:

  • (a) displaying, by the content execution apparatus, the menu including the plurality of menu icons associated with multimedia content on a screen of the content execution apparatus for user selection, wherein each of the plurality of the menu icons is associated with a respective service, wherein the services include a playback service, a set-up service of the content execution apparatus, a supplementary service for providing an additional information of the multimedia content on directors or actors, and an access service of a homepage of a provider of the multimedia content;

    (b) extracting, by the content execution apparatus, menu information defining the menu icons displayed on the screen of the content execution apparatus from a storage media, wherein the menu information includes at least a position information of each of the menu icons included in the menu, an information of the service associated with each of the menu icons, and the service data required by the service;

    (c) periodically determining, by the content execution apparatus, whether the services and the service data associated with the extracted menu information are available, wherein step (c) comprises sub-steps of;

    (c-1) determining, by the content execution apparatus, whether the services are available in the content execution apparatus;

    (c-2) determining, by the content execution apparatus, whether a network access to a service data providing apparatus for providing service data to the content execution apparatus is available; and

    (c-3) determining, by the content execution apparatus, whether the services are available from the service data providing apparatus through the Network access;

    (d) when the service and the service data associated with a menu icon selected by a user, determining, by the content execution apparatus, a system resource of the content execution apparatus for executing the service corresponding to the selected menu icon, wherein the system resource includes a memory capacity of the content execution apparatus and a processing capability of the content execution apparatus;

    (e) when at least one of the service and the service data associated with the selected menu icon is unavailable, checking, by the content execution apparatus, for an availability of the network access, wherein step (e) comprises sub-steps of;

    (e-1) when the network access is available, receiving, by the content execution apparatus, the service and the service data associated with the selected menu icon from a homepage of a manufacturer or the service data providing apparatus via the network access;

    (e-2) when the network access is unavailable, checking, by the content execution apparatus, for an service available locally in the content execution apparatus and updating the menu information by changing a title of the selected menu icon reflecting the locally available service in the content execution apparatus for displaying the updated menu icon including the changed title of the menu icon;

    (f) when none of the service and the service data associated with the menu icon is available, checking, by the content execution apparatus, for availability of description data which describes information about the unavailable service, wherein step (f) comprises sub-steps of;

    (f-1) when the description data is available, updating, by the content execution apparatus, the extracted menu information displaying the updated menu icon with the description data, wherein the description data provides information of the available service and the service data associated with the menu icon with text data and image data;

    (f-2) when the description data is unavailable, updating, by the content execution apparatus, the extracted menu information and delete the menu icon corresponding to the unavailable service;

    (g) displaying the updated menu with the updated menu icons on the screen of the content execution apparatus according to the updated menu information based on the determination of the availability of the service and the service data on each of the menu icons.

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