Method of providing a sport mode of a portable electronic device

• US 20060149908A1
• Filed: 07/01/2005
• Published: 07/06/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 12/31/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Tatung Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Tatung Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Wang, Yueh-Chi, Chan, Chieh-Yu, Chen, Chun-Ru, Hsu, Guang-Min
• Application Number:
  US11/171,244
• Publication Number:
  US 20060149908A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 711/156
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 19/02 Control of operating function, e.g. switching from recording to reproducing
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 20/10 Digital recording or reproducing
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 20/10527 Audio or video recording; Data buffering arrangements G11B20/12 - G11B20/18 take precedence

Abstract

The present invention relates to a method of providing a sport mode of a portably electronic device having a hard disk and a memory device. The method includes: (A) determining whether the portably electronic device switches to the sport mode; (B) switching to the sport mode and downloading at least one multimedia file from the hard disk to the memory device; (C) turning off the hard disk; (D) playing at least one multimedia file from the memory device.

Claims

1. A method of providing a sport mode of a portable electronic device having a hard disk and a memory device, comprising the steps of:

(A) determining whether said portable electronic device is in sport mode;

(B) switching to said sport mode and downloading at least one multimedia file from said hard disk to the memory device;

(C) turning off said hard disk; and

(D) playing at least one multimedia file from said memory device.

2. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein said portable electronic device is a multimedia player.

3. The method as claimed in claim 2, wherein said multimedia player is an MP3 player.

4. The method as claimed in claim 2, wherein said multimedia player is a Personal Digital Assistant (PDA).

5. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein said memory device is a dynamic RAM.

6. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein said memory device is a flash memory.

7. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein said memory device is a static RAM.

8. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein said electronic file is an MP3 media file.

9. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein said electronic file is a WMA media file.