System and method for driving portable multimedia player

• US 20050090944A1
• Filed: 10/25/2004
• Published: 04/28/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 10/24/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Reigncom Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Reigncom Company Limited
• Inventors: Cho, Seak Woo, Kim, Dong Chul
• Application Number:
  US10/973,854
• Publication Number:
  US 20050090944A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 701/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2209/542 Intercept
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0622 in relation to access
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0659 Command handling arrangements, e.g. command buffers, queues, command scheduling
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0679 Non-volatile semiconductor memory device, e.g. flash memory, one time programmable memory [OTP]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/545 where tasks reside in different layers, e.g. user- and kernel-space

Abstract

A system for driving a mobile multimedia player where a mobile disk driver provided from an operating system level is interworked with a filter driver for processing a command of a manager tool. In the mobile multimedia player, OS level control and control with a manager tool can be performed, wherein the mobile multimedia player can correspond to the mobile disk driver and the filter driver, respectively.

Claims

1. A system for driving a mobile multimedia player in communication with a computing device comprising an operating system, a mobile disk driver, a filter driver and a manager tool, the system comprising:

an interface means between the mobile disk driver and the mobile multimedia player, wherein when the computing device is connected to the mobile multimedia player, the interface menas provides a path between the filter driver and the mobile multimedia player when the manager tool is driven;

wherein the operating system is able to control the mobile multimedia player when the mobile disk driver is driven;

wherein the manager tool is able to control the mobile multimedia player when the manager tool is driven;

wherein the mobile multimedia player comprises a command processing layer for processing a command transmitted from the computing device.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the computing device is bi-directionally connected to the mobile multimedia player through a USB port.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the mobile multimedia player is one of a flash-type player, a compact disk driving player and a hard disk embedded player.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the operating system uses an application program to control the mobile multimedia player.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein a right for interfacing with the mobile multimedia player is intercepted from the mobile disk driver by the filter driver when the interface means provides the path between the filter driver and the mobile multimedia player.

6. The system of claim 5, wherein the mobile multimedia player cannot be controlled by the operating system when the filter driver intercepts the interface right.

7. A method for driving a mobile multimedia player, comprising:

recognizing a connection to a mobile multimedia player;

interfacing with the mobile multimedia player by loading a mobile disk driver provided by an operating system level to a memory when the connection to the player is recognized;

controlling the mobile multimedia player by driving an application program provided by the operating system level;

loading a filter driver when a manager tool is driven;

intercepting an interface right of the mobile disk driver by the filter driver; and

interfacing the filter driver with the mobile multimedia player for processing a command from the manager tool with the intercepted interface right.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein a searcher is driven as the application program.

9. The method of claim 7, wherein the mobile multimedia player cannot be controlled by the application program when the filter driver intercepts the interface right of the mobile disk driver.

10. A system for driving a connectable mobile multimedia player, comprising:

a mobile disk driver for loading to a memory and interfacing with a mobile multimedia player when the mobile disk driver is connected to the mobile multimedia player;

a manager tool for providing a previously defined command for performing a specific function of the mobile multimedia player; and

a filter driver in operation with the manager tool when the manager tool is driven, the filter driver facilitating communication between the manager tool and the mobile multimedia player by intercepting an interface right of the mobile disk driver.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein the mobile disk driver provides an interface path when the filter driver is loaded.

12. A system for driving a mobile multimedia player, comprising:

a connecting layer for connecting to a connectable mobile multimedia player;

a mobile disk driver located at an upper protocol layer of the connecting layer for interfacing with the mobile multimedia player through the connecting layer;

a filter driver located at an upper protocol layer of the mobile disk driver for processing a predetermined command, intercepting an interface right of the mobile disk driver at a loading state and using the mobile disk driver as an interface path; and

an application layer comprising a searcher for providing a command to control the mobile multimedia player when the mobile disk driver is loaded and a manager tool for providing the predetermined command to control the mobile multimedia player when the filter driver is loaded.

13. The system of claim 12, wherein the mobile multimedia player cannot be controlled by the searcher when the filter driver intercepts the interface right of the mobile disk driver at a loading state.

14. A method for a recording medium, comprising:

loading a mobile disk driver provided by an operating system level to interface with a mobile multimedia player in response to the mobile multimedia player connecting to a computing device;

controlling the mobile multimedia player when an application program provided by the operating system level is driven;

loading a filter driver for processing a command from a driven manager tool, wherein the manager tool provides a previously defined command for performing a predetermined function in the mobile multimedia player;

intercepting an interface right of the mobile disk driver by the filter driver; and

interfacing the filter driver with the mobile multimedia player for processing a command from the manager tool with the interface right.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein the application program comprises a searcher.

16. The method of claim 14, wherein the mobile multimedia player cannot be controlled by the application program when the filter driver intercepts the interface right of the mobile disk driver.

17. A mobile multimedia player, comprising:

a connecting layer connectable to a computing device;

an SCSI layer located at an upper protocol layer of the connecting layer for transmitting and linking data;

a command processing layer located at an upper protocol layer of the SCSI layer for processing a command from a mobile disk driver provided from an operating system level in the computing device and a command from a filter driver provided from a manager tool level in the computing device; and

an application layer located at an upper protocol layer of the command processing layer for performing a control function corresponding to a command transmitted from the command processing layer.

18. The mobile multimedia player of claim 17, wherein the command processing layer determines whether a received command is at least one of a command of a mobile disk driver format and a command of a filter driver format, and performs a corresponding operation.

19. A recording medium having a program as a protocol, comprising:

a connecting layer connectable to a computing device;

an SCSI layer located at an upper protocol layer of the connecting layer for transmitting and linking data;

a command processing layer located at an upper protocol layer of the SCSI layer for processing a command from a mobile disk driver provided from an operating system level in the computing device and a command from a filter driver provided from a manager tool level in the computing device; and

an application layer located at an upper protocol layer of the command processing layer for performing a control function corresponding to a command transmitted from the command processing layer;

wherein the program controls the recording medium based on the protocol.

20. The recording medium of claim 19, wherein the command processing layer determines whether a received command is at least one of a command of a mobile disk driver format and a command of a filter driver format, and performs a corresponding operation.