Method and apparatus for providing content-owner control in a networked device

• US 20060107215A1
• Filed: 12/29/2005
• Published: 05/18/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 07/02/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sonic Solutions (Adeia Inc.)
• Original Assignee: InterActual Technologies Incorporated (Adeia Inc.)
• Inventors: Collart, Todd, Gewickey, Greg
• Application Number:
  US11/323,403
• Publication Number:
  US 20060107215A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/716
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/764 at the destination reformatting of additional data in video clients H04N21/4355
• 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 21/4381 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 21/4623 Processing of entitlement messages, e.g. ECM [Entitlement Control Message] or EMM [Entitlement Management Message] arrangements for conditional access to broadcast information or to broadcast-related services H04H60/14
• 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

Abstract

An apparatus and methods for providing content-owner control in a device is optionally networked. A method for accessing media content has steps of initiating a first view providing access to at least a portion of a first content within the first view, initiating a second view providing access to a second content within the second view and preventing the second content from being accessed with the first content in the first view. Additionally, access to a third content with the first content is allowed in the first view. An apparatus includes a first view configured to provide access to a first content, a second view configured to provide access to a second content, and a graphical subsystem configured to prevent the second content from being access in the first view. In one variation, the first view is a media content view, and the second view is a web view.

Claims

1. An apparatus for providing access to content, comprising:

an event generator is configured to generate a notification event;

a notification generator is coupled with the event generator to receive the notification event, wherein the notification generator is configured to generate a notification signal; and

a content player coupled with the notification generator to receive the notification signal, wherein the content player is configured to generate a notification.

2. The apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the notification generator includes a graphical subsystem coupled with the event generator to receive the notification event, wherein the graphical subsystem is configured to generate the notification signal that is a notification graphical image.

3. The apparatus as claimed in claim 2, wherein the content player includes a display coupled with the graphical subsystem to receive the notification graphical image, wherein the display is configured to display the notification graphical image.

4. The apparatus as claimed in claim 1, further comprising:

a state module configured to receive a control input, and to generate a control event trigger according to the control input; and

the event generator is coupled with the state module such that the event generator receives the control event trigger, wherein the event generator generates a control event to invoke the control associated with the control input.

5. The apparatus as claimed in claim 4, wherein:

the control input directs more than one control; and

the state module is further configured to determine a state of content, and to determine which of the more than one controls is to be invoked according to the state of the content.