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• US 20060193606A1
• Filed: 03/31/2006
• Published: 08/31/2006
• 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:
  US11/278,401
• Publication Number:
  US 20060193606A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 386/355
• 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 21/4325 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 21/4431 characterized by the use of Application Program Interface [API] libraries
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6125 involving transmission via Internet transmission by internet of broadcast information H04H60/82
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6581 Reference data, e.g. a movie identifier for ordering a movie or a product identifier in a home shopping application
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8545 for generating interactive applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/765 Interface circuits between an apparatus for recording and another apparatus
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/85 on discs or drums
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/17318 Direct or substantially direct transmission and handling of requests
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/8042 involving data reduction

Abstract

Some embodiments provide a computer readable portable storage media that includes audio/video content, a code segment to determine whether a network connection is active, a code segment to initiate a determination of whether a network connection can be established, a code segment to establish a connection in response to determining that a network connection can be established and a connection is not active, a code segment to identify instructions to access additional content over the network connection, a code segment to access the additional content associated with the audio/video over the network connection, and a code segment to cause rendering of at least one of the additional content and the audio/video content.

Claims

1. A computer readable portable storage media, comprising:

audio/video content;

a code segment to determine whether a network connection is active;

a code segment to initiate a determination of whether a network connection can be established;

a code segment to establish a connection in response to determining that a network connection can be established and a connection is not active;

a code segment to identify instructions to access additional content over the network connection;

a code segment to access the additional content associated with the audio/video over the network connection; and

a code segment to cause rendering of at least one of the additional content and the audio/video content.

2. The portable storage media of claim 1, further comprising:

a path to the additional content accessible over the network.

3. The portable storage media of claim 1, further comprising:

a code segment to extract rendering control commands from the additional content; and

the code segment to cause rendering renders the audio/video content according to the control commands.

4. The portable storage media of claim 1, further comprising:

a plurality of sets of rendering additional content for a plurality of different platforms.

5. The portable storage media of claim 4, further comprising:

a code segment to determine a platform of a device through which the audio/video content is to be rendered; and

a code segment to extract one set of the plurality of sets of rendering additional content in response to the determining of the platform of the device through which the audio/video content is to be rendered.

6. The portable storage media of claim 5, wherein at least some of the rendering additional content of one or more of the plurality of sets of rendering additional content comprise platform specific additional content to override one or more rendering mechanisms of the device through which the audio/video content is to be rendered.

7. The portable storage media of claim 1, further comprising:

a directory structure comprising a root directory comprising;

a common directory comprising the audio/video content; and

a plurality of platform specific directories comprising platform specific additional content.

8. The portable storage media of claim 7, wherein the common directory further comprises platform specific read only memory (ROM) content for one or more platforms.

9. The portable storage media of claim 1, further comprising:

platform specific additional content; and

a code segment to identify platform specific additional content.

10. The portable storage media of claim 1, further comprising:

a code segment to initiate an activation of a background container utilized at least in part to provide rendering of a least a portion of the audio/video content.

11. The portable storage media of claim 10, further comprising:

a code segment to detect audio/video event occurrences while the background container is active.

12. The portable storage media of claim 10, wherein the background container is not visible.

13. A computer readable portable storage medium, comprising:

audio/video content; and

additional content comprising additional multimedia content and programmatic content wherein the programmatic content controls displaying of the audio/video content and the additional multimedia content.

14. The portable storage medium of claim 13, wherein the programmatic content comprises a code segment to alter the rendering of the audio/video content based upon information about the rendering of the audio/video content.

15. The portable storage medium of claim 14, wherein programmatic content comprises a code segment to detect an audio/video event and the information about the rendering of the audio/video content comprises a detected event.

16. The portable storage medium of claim 14, wherein programmatic content comprises a code segment to implement a command and the information about the rendering of the audio/video content includes a received command.

17. The portable storage medium of claim 14, wherein programmatic content comprises a code segment to detect a change of a state and the information about the rendering of the audio/video content includes a change of state.

18. The portable storage medium of claim 13, wherein the programmatic content comprises a code segment to verify access to the additional multimedia content prior to rendering the additional multimedia content.

19. The portable storage medium of claim 18, wherein the programmatic content comprises:

a code segment to determine whether a network connection is active;

a code segment to initiate a determination of whether a network connection can be established;

a code segment to establish a connection in response to determining that a network connection can be established and a connection is not active; and

a code segment to request verification of the additional over the network connection.

20. The portable storage media of claim 13, further comprising:

a plurality of sets of one or more additional multimedia content or programmatic content for a plurality of different platforms.

21. The portable storage media of claim 20, further comprising:

a code segment to determine a platform of a device through which the audio/video content is to be rendered; and

a code segment to extract one set of the plurality of sets of one or more additional multimedia content or programmatic content in response to the determining of the platform of the device through which the audio/video content is to be rendered.

22. The portable storage media of claim 21, wherein at least some of the one or more additional multimedia content or programmatic content of one or more of the plurality of sets of one or more additional multimedia content or programmatic content comprise platform specific additional content to override one or more rendering mechanisms of the device through which the audio/video content is to be rendered.

23. The portable storage media of claim 13, further comprising:

a directory structure comprising a root directory comprising;

a common directory comprising the audio/video content; and

a plurality of platform specific directories comprising one or more of the platform specific additional multimedia content or programmatic content.

24. The portable storage media of claim 13, further comprising:

one or more platform specific additional multimedia content or programmatic content; and

a code segment to identify the one or more platform specific additional multimedia content or programmatic content.

25. The portable storage media of claim 13, further comprising:

a code segment to initiate an activation of a background container utilized at least in part to provide rendering of a least a portion of the audio/video content.

26. The portable storage media of claim 25, further comprising:

a code segment to detect audio/video event occurrences while the background container is active.

27. The portable storage media of claim 25, wherein the background container is not visible.