METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DISPENSING ON A DATA-STORAGE MEDIUM CUSTOMIZED CONTENT COMPRISING SELECTED ASSETS
First Claim
1. A programmed method for installing and distributing customized content, the method comprising:
- installing a collection of initially available installed content into a storage medium;
receiving selection data that distinguishes a user-selected portion of the initially available content to be kept from an extraneous portion of the initially available content to be removed; and
removing the extraneous portion.
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Abstract
An apparatus and method for obtaining a storage medium with a deeply customizable set of installed content. Soft assets (e.g., programs, songs, videos, etc.) that form the content are selected from among a much larger set of preinstalled soft assets previously stored on storage media, such as disk drives. In some embodiments, based on a user'"'"'s selections, the non-selected assets are permanently erased from a storage medium, while the remaining assets are available as installed (wherein substantially no further processing is required to install them). In some embodiments, a new device uses the storage medium to provide its user with a fully functional device without the need to separately install the soft assets from a plurality of sources (e.g., from program-distribution CDROMS and the like). Some embodiments include the storage medium having the soft assets installed, and including a program that elicits selections from a user and erases non-selected assets.
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29 Claims
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1. A programmed method for installing and distributing customized content, the method comprising:
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installing a collection of initially available installed content into a storage medium;
receiving selection data that distinguishes a user-selected portion of the initially available content to be kept from an extraneous portion of the initially available content to be removed; and
removing the extraneous portion. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18)
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19. A soft asset dispenser comprising:
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a processor;
a storage medium storing a predetermined collection of simplex digital assets capable of being coupled to the processor in a manner such that the processor can process soft assets stored within the storage medium;
a collection customizer that is operatively coupled to the storage medium and operable to remove non-selected simplex soft assets from the collection such that a user-specified part of the soft assets are retained, and are thus dispensed as substantially ready-to-use. - View Dependent Claims (20, 21, 22, 23)
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24. An apparatus comprising:
- a functional container that includes;
a storage medium that stores, reads and writes soft assets;
an interface operable to couple the storage medium to an information-processing appliance;
and a superset collection of individually accessible, simplex soft assets, such that the functional container, prior to coupling to an end-user information-processing appliance, serves as both a user-selectable inventory and a vehicle to deliver a selected subset of the simplex soft assets. - View Dependent Claims (25, 26)
- a functional container that includes;
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27. An apparatus comprising:
- a functional container that includes;
means for storing, reading and writing soft assets;
means for coupling the means for storing, reading and writing soft assets to an information-processing appliance;
and a vast collection of individually accessible, simplex soft assets, such that the functional container serves as both a user-selectable inventory and a vehicle to sideload the simplex soft assets. - View Dependent Claims (28, 29)
- a functional container that includes;
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