Audiovisual distribution system
First Claim
1. Audiovisual distribution system for playing an audiovisual piece on at least one audiovisual device (8) from among a plurality of audiovisual devices, each comprised of audio or video means for playing a piece and linked to a central computer server (9) containing optical or magnetic memory means for mass storage (21) of a plurality of audiovisual pieces selectable from any of these devices, characterized in that each of these audiovisual devices (8) has means (33) for interactive communication with the user to select a piece or a menu, payment means (35), computer network card (71), a permanent semiconductor memory containing a multitask operating system including at least one hard disk access management task in which the order to play a piece resulting from a selection is handled as a hard disk sequential access task and declaration of the hard disk as a peripheral corresponding to the network card of the device, in order to allow a request to the server (9) to be sent through the network for processing, said server being comprised of a multitask operating system, permanent mass memory (21) of the magnetic or optical type, network card (71) by which the requests from different devices (8) are received, said operating system processing these disk access requests produced by the devices as actual disk access requests.
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Abstract
Audiovisual reproduction system triggered by payment from a user, developed around a microprocessor device, said system comprising memory containing, in compressed digital form, audio and visual information to be used, a display and digital audio reproduction unit enabling formation of a multimedia environment, wherein the display comprises a video monitor and an interactive interface with the user by an interface program which reacts to external events and translates the external events for a multitasking operating system as events which trigger, via a graphical module of a library of integrated tools and services, a display of windows or frames providing a modification of physical operating parameters of the audiovisual reproduction system, said external events comprising at least a down event interpreting coincidence of a placement of pointing device with the position of at least a representation displayed by the graphic module, and an event which triggers modification of the physical operating parameters by storing these parameters in said memory.
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- 1. Audiovisual distribution system for playing an audiovisual piece on at least one audiovisual device (8) from among a plurality of audiovisual devices, each comprised of audio or video means for playing a piece and linked to a central computer server (9) containing optical or magnetic memory means for mass storage (21) of a plurality of audiovisual pieces selectable from any of these devices, characterized in that each of these audiovisual devices (8) has means (33) for interactive communication with the user to select a piece or a menu, payment means (35), computer network card (71), a permanent semiconductor memory containing a multitask operating system including at least one hard disk access management task in which the order to play a piece resulting from a selection is handled as a hard disk sequential access task and declaration of the hard disk as a peripheral corresponding to the network card of the device, in order to allow a request to the server (9) to be sent through the network for processing, said server being comprised of a multitask operating system, permanent mass memory (21) of the magnetic or optical type, network card (71) by which the requests from different devices (8) are received, said operating system processing these disk access requests produced by the devices as actual disk access requests.
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