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• US 20050278435A1
• Filed: 05/23/2005
• Published: 12/15/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 04/21/1999
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sonic Solutions (Adeia Inc.)
• Original Assignee: InterActual Technologies Incorporated (Adeia Inc.)
• Inventors: Lamkin, Allan B., Collart, Todd R., Gewickey, Greg
• Application Number:
  US11/136,627
• Publication Number:
  US 20050278435A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/219
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/4393 Multimedia presentations, e.g. slide shows, multimedia albums
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/957 Browsing optimisation, e.g. caching or content distillation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/10 Protecting distributed programs or content, e.g. vending or licensing of copyrighted material protection in video systems or pay television H04N7/16 ; Digital rights management [DRM]
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 17/00 Methods or arrangements for effecting co-operative working between equipments covered by two or more of main groups G06K1/00 - G06K15/00, e.g. automatic card files incorporating conveying and reading operations
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/08 Logistics, e.g. warehousing, loading or distribution; Inventory or stock management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/06 Buying, selling or leasing transactions
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 19/022 Control panels
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 19/12 by sensing distinguishing features of or on records, e.g. diameter end mark
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 19/16 Manual control
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 20/00086 Circuits for prevention of unauthorised reproduction or copying, e.g. piracy indicating unauthorised use of record carriers in general G11B23/28; scrambling for television signal recording H04N5/913; network architectures or network protocols for network security H04L63/00; cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for secret or secure communication H04L9/00
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 20/00876 wherein physical copy protection means are attached to the medium, e.g. holograms, sensors, or additional semiconductor circuitry
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2220/2545 CDs
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2220/2562 DVDs [digital versatile discs]; Digital video discs; MMCDs; HDCDs
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 23/36 Signals on record carriers or on containers and recorded by the same method as the main recording
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/034 on discs G11B27/036, G11B27/038 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/105 of operating discs
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1101 Session protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/764 at the destination reformatting of additional data in video clients H04N21/4355
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/142 : Managing session states for stateless protocols; Signalling session states; State transitions; Keeping-state mechanisms
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/303 : Terminal profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/34 : involving the movement of software or configuration parameters network booting or remote initial program loading [RIPL] G06F9/4416
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/329 : in the application layer [OSI layer 7]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/40 : Network security protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/235 : Processing of additional data, e.g. scrambling of additional data or processing content descriptors
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/23614 : Multiplexing of additional data and video streams arrangements for simultaneous broadcast of plural pieces of information H04H20/28
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4147 : PVR [Personal Video Recorder] H04N5/76 takes precedence ; arrangements for broadcast with accumulation-type receivers H04H20/40
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42646 : for reading from or writing on a non-volatile solid state storage medium, e.g. DVD, CD-ROM
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4348 : Demultiplexing of additional data and video streams
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/435 : Processing of additional data, e.g. decrypting of additional data, reconstructing software from modules extracted from the transport stream
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4381 : Recovering the multiplex stream from a specific network, e.g. recovering MPEG packets from ATM cells transmission of MPEG streams over ATM H04L12/5601
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/440263 : by altering the spatial resolution, e.g. for displaying on a connected PDA
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4408 : involving video stream encryption, e.g. re-encrypting a decrypted video stream for redistribution in a home network
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/443 : OS processes, e.g. booting an STB, implementing a Java virtual machine in an STB or power management in an STB
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/458 : Scheduling content for creating a personalised stream, e.g. by combining a locally stored advertisement with an incoming stream; Updating operations, e.g. for OS modules ; time-related management operations arrangements for replacing or switching information during the broadcast or during the distribution H04H20/10
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4622 : Retrieving content or additional data from different sources, e.g. from a broadcast channel and the Internet web site content organization and management for information retrieval from the Internet G06F16/958; transmission by internet of broadcast information H04H60/82; stock exchange data over packet-switching network H04L12/1804; push services including data channel over packet-switching network H04L12/1859
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47 : End-user applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4782 : Web browsing , e.g. WebTV
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/60 : Network structure or processes for video distribution between server and client or between remote clients; Control signalling between clients, server and network components; Transmission of management data between server and client , e.g. sending from server to client commands for recording incoming content stream; Communication details between server and client
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6125 : involving transmission via Internet transmission by internet of broadcast information H04H60/82
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/64322 : IP
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/84 : Generation or processing of descriptive data, e.g. content descriptors systems specially adapted for using meta-information in broadcast systems H04H60/73
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8586 : by using a URL processing chained hypermedia data for information retrieval G06F16/94; information retrieval from the Internet by using URLs G06F16/955; URL in broadcast information H04H20/93; Web-based protocols H04L67/02
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/17318 : Direct or substantially direct transmission and handling of requests

Abstract

A media services interface for use in a readable medium playback device enables synchronization of disparate media playback, network directed playback of media, media playback control via displayed html/javascript file, logging of consumer identifier, media identifier, and playback device identifier in a cookie or log file. The media services comprises a command handler, a properties handler, an event generator, a cookie manager, a navigator state module, an identifier engine, an initialization module, and a bookmark manager. The command handler executes commands received from a connected network, a displayed html/javascript file, etc. The properties handler provides information relating to system states in response to queries including the status of any network connections. The event generator generates events in response to predetermined system occurrences. The cookie manager records information for later reading including the tracking of consumer identifier, playback device identifier, and readable medium identifier triples. The navigator state module maintains information regarding the state of the playback device and the interaction with the readable medium. The identifier engine carries out determination of the identity of the readable medium. The initialization module controls system initialization. The bookmark manager generates bookmarks which preserve positions in the playback of the readable medium for later recall. Network sources can provide media content and issue commands which synchronize the playback of both network and readable medium originated content over multiple playback devices through the use of the synchronization abilities of the media services.

Claims

1. A method of rendering content comprising:

rendering audio/video content stored on a portable storage medium; and

rendering additional content along with the audio/video content, wherein the additional content controls the rendering of the audio/video content and additional content.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the additional content is programmatic content.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein the additional content is stored on the computer readable medium.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein the additional content is stored on a separate storage medium.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein the additional content is stored on a network.

6. The method of claim 1 wherein the rendering of the additional content is control information.

7. The method of claim 1 wherein the rendering of the additional content is control information and display information.

8. The method of claim 1 wherein the additional content alters the rendering of the audio/video content based upon information about the rendering of the audio/video content.

9. The method of displaying content of claim 8 where the information about the rendering of the audio/video content includes an event.

10. The method of displaying content of claim 8 where the information about the rendering of the audio/video content includes a command.

11. The method of displaying content of claim 8 where the information about the rendering of the audio/video content includes a change of state.

12. The method of claim 1 wherein the additional content alters the rendering of the additional content based upon information about the rendering of the audio/video content.

13. The method of claim 1 wherein the additional content alters the rendering of a combination of the audio/video and the additional content based upon information about the rendering of the audio/video content.

14. The method of claim 1 wherein the additional content alters the rendering of the audio/video content based upon a user operation.

15. The method of claim 1 wherein the additional content alters the rendering of the additional content based upon a user operation.

16. The method of claim 1 wherein the additional content alters the rendering of a combination of the audio/video content and the additional content based upon a user operation.

17. The method of claim 1 wherein the additional content alters the rendering of the audio/video content based upon a player setting.

18. The method of claim 1 wherein the additional content alters the rendering of the additional content based upon a player setting.

19. The method of claim 1 wherein the additional content alters the rendering of the combination of the audio/video and the additional content upon a player setting.

20. The method of claim 1 wherein the additional content is stored separately from the audio/video content.

21. The method of claim 1 wherein the additional content is multiplexed with the audio/video content.

22. The method of claim 1 wherein the additional content must be verified.

23. The method of claim 22 wherein the additional content is verified by a player.

24. The method of claim 22 wherein the additional content is verified over a network.

25. The method of claim 22 wherein the additional content is verified based on credentials stored on the computer readable medium.

26. The method of claim 1 wherein the additional content is used to access specific segments of the audio/video content.

27. The method of claim 1 wherein the audio/video content is used to access specific segments of the additional content.

28. The method of claim 1 wherein the audio/video content has a control structure.

29. The method of claim 28 wherein the additional content overrides the control structure of the audio/video content.

30. A device for rendering content comprising:

a presentation engine for controlling the playback of audio/video content stored on a portable storage medium and for controlling playback of additional content to be displayed along with the audio/video content; and

an application programming interface for providing information to the presentation engine, wherein the presentation engine utilizes the information to alter the playback of at least one of the audio/video content and the additional content.

31. The device for rendering content of claim 30 wherein the information provided to the presentation engine includes a command.

32. The device for rendering content of claim 30 wherein the information provided to the presentation engine includes an event.

33. The device for rendering content of claim 30 wherein the information provided to the presentation engine includes a change of state.

34. A method of displaying content comprising:

displaying audio/video content stored on a portable storage medium;

displaying additional content;

storing information about the playback of the audio/video content and the additional content in a local storage device; and

utilizing the stored information during subsequent playback of audio/video content and the additional content.

35. The method of displaying content of claim 34 wherein the information about the playback of the audio/video content includes current state information.

36. The method of displaying content of claim 34 wherein the information about the playback of the audio/video content includes a bookmark.

37. The method of displaying content of claim 34 wherein the information about the playback of the audio/video content includes disk information.

38. The method of displaying content of claim 34 wherein the information about the playback of the audio/video content includes user information.

39. The method of displaying content of claim 34 wherein the subsequent playback includes subsequent playback of the audio/video content from the portable storage medium.

40. The method of displaying content of claim 34 wherein the subsequent playback includes subsequent playback of audio/video content from a different portable storage medium.

41. The method of displaying content of claim 34 wherein the subsequent playback can only occur based on the prior playback specific audio/video content.