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• US 20060041640A1
• Filed: 05/23/2005
• Published: 02/23/2006
• 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:
  US11/136,621
• Publication Number:
  US 20060041640A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/219
• 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 27/105 of operating discs
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/764 at the destination reformatting of additional data in video clients H04N21/4355
• 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 21/43072 of multiple content streams on the same device
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4325 : by playing back content from the storage medium reproduction of recorded television signals H04N5/76; reproduction of recorded television signals H04N9/79
• 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 21/4408 : 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 21/4622 : 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 21/64322 : IP
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8133 : specifically related to the content, e.g. biography of the actors in a movie, detailed information about an article seen in a video program
• 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 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 system comprising:

a portable storage medium;

audio/video content encoded to the portable storage medium;

additional content, wherein the additional content corresponds to the audio/video content; and

an index associated with the additional content, wherein the index points to a portion of the audio/video content.

2. The system of claim 1 wherein the additional content is stored on the portable storage medium.

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

4. The system of claim 1 wherein the additional content is stored on a network.

5. The system of claim 1 wherein the additional content is programmatic content.

6. The system of claim 1 wherein the audio/video content and the additional content can be displayed simultaneously.

7. The system of claim 1 wherein the audio/video content can be displayed without the additional content.

8. The system of claim 1 wherein the additional content can be displayed without the audio/video content.

9. The system of claim 1 wherein the index is used to override a navigation structure of the audio/video content.

10. The system of claim 1 wherein a navigation structure of the audio/video content overrides the index.

11. The system of claim 1 wherein the index is used to access specific segments of the audio/video content.

12. The system of claim 11 wherein the specific segments of the audio/video content are not defined by a navigation structure of the audio/video content.

13. The system of claim 11 wherein the specific segments of the audio/video content and the additional content can be displayed simultaneously.

14. The system of claim 1 further comprising a playback device for rendering the audio/video content and the additional content.

15. The system of claim 14 wherein the playback device simultaneously renders the audio video content and the additional content.

16. A system comprising:

a portable storage medium;

multimedia content encoded to the portable storage medium;

software encoded to the portable storage medium, wherein the software controls retrieval of additional content, wherein the additional content corresponds to the multimedia content encoded to the portable storage medium.

17. The system of claim 16 wherein the additional content is stored on the portable storage medium.

18. The device of claim 16 wherein the additional content is stored on a separate storage medium.

19. The device of claim 16 wherein the additional content is stored on a network.

20. The device of claim 16 wherein the additional content is programmatic content.

21. The device of claim 16 wherein the multimedia content and the additional content can be displayed simultaneously.

22. The system of claim 16 wherein the audio/video content can be displayed without the additional content.

23. The system of claim 16 wherein the additional content can be displayed without the audio/video content.

24. The system of claim 16 further comprising a playback device for rendering the audio/video content and the additional content base upon a navigation structure.

25. A method for playback of content comprising:

reading at least a portion of content stored on a portable storage medium, the content on the portable storage medium including audio/video content and additional content; and

selecting between a first playback mode and a second playback mode, wherein the first playback mode includes playback of the audio/video content and the second playback mode includes playback of the audio/video content and the additional content.

26. The method for playback of content of claim 25 wherein a player selects between the first playback mode and the second playback mode.

27. The method for playback of content of claim 25 wherein the content on the portable storage medium selects between the first playback mode and the second playback mode.

28. The method for playback of content of claim 25 wherein a user selects between the first playback mode and the second playback mode.

29. The method for playback of content of claim 25 wherein the selection between the first playback mode and the second playback mode is made automatically after a predetermined amount of time.

30. The method for playback of content of claim 29 wherein the predetermined amount of time is based upon authoring of the portable storage medium.

31. The method for playback of content of claim 29 wherein the predetermined amount of time is based upon a setting in a player.

32. A device for controlling the playback of content comprising:

an audio/video navigator for navigating audio/video content stored on a portable storage medium; and

a presentation engine, wherein the presentation engine receives notification information from the audio/video navigator relating to the playback of the audio/video content, wherein the presentation engine controls the playback of the audio/video content stored on the portable storage medium and additional content that is related to the audio/video content.

33. The device for controlling the playback of content of claim 32 wherein the notification information is navigator event information.

34. The device for controlling the playback of content of claim 32 wherein the notification information is navigator state information.

35. The device for controlling the playback of content of claim 32 wherein the additional content is stored on the portable storage medium.

36. The device for controlling the playback of content of claim 32 wherein the additional content is stored on a separate storage medium.

37. The device for controlling the playback of content of claim 32 wherein the additional content is stored on a network.

38. The device for controlling the playback of content of claim 32 wherein the additional content is programmatic content.