Method for on-line selecting and playing a media file

• US 20050102379A1
• Filed: 11/08/2004
• Published: 05/12/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 11/11/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: BenQ Corporation (Qisda Corporation)
• Original Assignee: BenQ Corporation (Qisda Corporation)
• Inventors: Su, Chuan-Ching, Lee, Chang-Hung, Yen, Mason
• Application Number:
  US10/983,397
• Publication Number:
  US 20050102379A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/219
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/329 in the application layer [OSI layer 7]

Abstract

A method for on-line selecting and playing a media file that is stored in a server and a multimedia player is used for executing the media file and is further linked to the server via a network. The method comprising the steps of: (a) transmitting a request signal by the multimedia player to the server via the network for a selected list; (b) outputting the selected list to the multimedia player by the server upon receipt of the request signal; (c) formatting and inserting the selected list into a video signal and the multimedia player outputting the inserted video signal for displaying; (d) choosing an item from the selected list and subsequently transmitting the chosen item to the server; (e) transmitting a media file corresponding to the chosen item to the multimedia player; and (f) executing the media file by the multimedia player.

Claims

1. A method for selecting and playing a media file on-line, the media file being stored in a server, a multimedia player being used for executing the media file, the multimedia player being connected to the server via a network, the method for selecting and playing the media file on-line comprising the steps of:

(a) transmitting a request signal by the multimedia player to the server via the network for a selected list;

(b) outputting the selected list to the multimedia player by the server upon receipt of the request signal;

(c) formatting and inserting the selected list into a video signal and the multimedia player outputting the inserted video signal for displaying;

(d) choosing an item from the selected list and subsequently transmitting the chosen item to the server;

(e) transmitting the media file corresponding to the chosen item by the server to the multimedia player; and

(f) executing the media file by the multimedia player.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the network is a wireless network, wherein the multimedia player and the server are linked under ad-hoc mode to permit conduction of a wireless data transmission therebetween.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the media file stored in the server is in MPEG format, the multimedia player being adapted to play the media file in MPEG format.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein in the step (f) the executing operation is to play the media file.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein in the step (f) the executing operation is to store the media file.

6. The method according to claim 1, wherein the multimedia player further includes a display, the selected list being displayed on the display in OSD (On Screen Display).

7. The method according to claim 1, wherein each of the items in the selected list is a HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) text, each of the items in the selected list being linked to a respective media file via the hyperlink protocol.

8. The method according to claim 1, wherein the media file is transmitted to the multimedia player from the server by means of streaming.

9. The method according to claim 1, wherein the selected list includes a series of number respectively representing the media files of the server.

10. The method according to claim 9, wherein the selected list includes a plurality of control signals for controlling the media files included in the selected list.

11. The method according to claim 10, wherein the control signals include play and store commands.

12. A method for playing a media file on-line, wherein the media file is stored in a first server and a second server is used for managing the media file, a multimedia player being used for playing the media file, and is further linked to the second server via the peer-to-peer protocol, the method for on-line playing the media file comprising the steps of:

(a) transmitting a request signal by the multimedia player to the second server for a selected list;

(b) outputting the selected list by the second server to the multimedia player upon receipt of the request signal;

(c) formatting and inserting the selected list into a video signal, the multimedia player outputting the inserted video signal for displaying;

(d) choosing an item from the selected list and subsequently transmitting the chosen item to the first server;

(e) transmitting the media file corresponding to the chosen item by the first server to the multimedia player; and

(f) playing the media file by the multimedia player.

13. The method according to claim 12, wherein the multimedia player and the first server is linked under ad-hoc mode to permit conduction of a wireless data transmission therebetween

14. The method according to claim 12, wherein the media file stored in the first server is in MPEG format, the multimedia player being adapted to play the media file in MPEG format.

15. The method according to claim 12, wherein in the step (f) executing operation is to play the media file on the display.

16. The method according to claim 12, wherein in the step (f) the executing operation is to store the media file.

17. The method according to claim 12, wherein the multimedia player further includes a display, the selected list being displayed on the display of the multimedia player in OSD (On Screen Display).

18. The method according to claim 12, wherein each of the media files in the selected list is a HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) text, each of the items in the selected list being linked to a respective media file via the hyperlink protocol.

19. The method according to claim 12, wherein the e media file is transmitted to the multimedia player from the first server by means of streaming.

20. A multimedia player for connecting to a server via a network, the server including a plurality of media files and a selected list corresponding to the media files, the multimedia player playing the media files via a display, the multimedia player comprising:

a first terminal for connecting to the server via the network;

a control unit linking to the first terminal, the control unit transmitting a request signal to the server, the server responding and transmitting the selected list to the control unit;

a second terminal for connecting to the display;

a data processor linked to the control unit for outputting a video signal to the display via the second terminal, wherein the selected list is displayed on the display; and

a responding unit connected to the control unit, and transmitting a selected signal according to the selected list, the server transmitting the media file to the multimedia player according to the selected signal.

21. The multimedia player according to claim 20, wherein the data processor further comprises:

a formatting unit; and

a playing unit for outputting the video signal;

wherein upon receipt of the selected list, the formatting unit formatting the selected list in a predetermined format and sending to the playing unit, the playing unit inserting the formatted selected list into the video signal.

22. The multimedia player according to claim 21, wherein the control unit further sends a command to the formatting unit , the command being saving or play the media file.

23. The multimedia player according to claim 20 further comprising a storage unit for storing a plurality of media files.