Multi-media file automatic updating method and software program thereof

• US 20080091731A1
• Filed: 10/10/2007
• Published: 04/17/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 10/14/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: ASUSTek Computer, Inc.
• Original Assignee: ASUSTek Computer, Inc.
• Inventors: Lee, Yi-Hsiu
• Application Number:
  US11/907,147
• Publication Number:
  US 20080091731A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/4387 by the use of playlists

Abstract

A multi-media file automatic updating method and a software program thereof is disclosed in the present invention. The method includes: through setting the sequence to play a plural of multi-media files, automatically copying a part of the multi-media files to the storage space of a portable device according to the playing sequence; when the portable device connecting to the host, automatically judging the multi-media files stored in the storage space which have been completely played; automatically deleting the multi-media files which have been completely played; and automatically copying a part of the multi-media files following the multi-media files stored in the storage space to the storage space according to the playing sequence, thereby performing the updating between the host and the portable device automatically and orderly according to the sequence of the multi-media files.

Claims

1. A multi-media file automatic updating method, to automatically update the contents stored in a portable device, comprising the steps of:

setting the sequence to play a plural of multi-media files;

copying at least one of said multi-media files to a storage space of said portable device according to said playing sequence;

judging whether said multi-media file stored in said storage space has been completely played;

deleting said multi-media file stored in said storage space which has been completely played; and

copying at least next one of said multi-media files, which has not been copied to said storage space, to said storage space according to said playing sequence.

2. The multi-media file automatic updating method according to claim 1, wherein said setting step is generating a device list to set the sequence to play a plural of multi-media files.

3. The multi-media file automatic updating method according to claim 2, wherein said device list includes the identifying code of said portable device, the file names of said multi-media files, or a series of sequence numbers corresponding to said multi-media files.

4. The multi-media file automatic updating method according to claim 1, wherein said setting step is choosing a plural of multi-media files to set the playing sequence of said multi-media files.

5. The multi-media file automatic updating method according to claim 1, wherein said judging step is automatically reading a playing record stored in said portable device to automatically judge whether said multi-media files stored in said storage space have been completely played.

6. The multi-media file automatic updating method according to claim 5, wherein said playing record includes the identifying code of said portable device, the file names of said multi-media files, or a series of sequence numbers corresponding to said multi-media files.

7. The multi-media file automatic updating method according to claim 5, wherein said playing record includes the file names of said multi-media files which have been completely played, or the complete playing time.

8. The multi-media file automatic updating method according to claim 5, wherein said playing record includes a series of playing status tags corresponding to said multi-media files to record the playing status of said multi-media files, and said deleting step is automatically deleting said multi-media files whose playing status tags show that said multi-media files have been completely played.

9. The multi-media file automatic updating method according to claim 1, wherein the capacity of said storage space can be set.

10. The multi-media file automatic updating method according to claim 1, wherein said storage space is a flash memory.

11. The multi-media file automatic updating method according to claim 1, wherein, automatically copying said multi-media files to said storage space according to said playing sequence is automatically copying the maximum multi-media files to said storage space according to said playing sequence within the capacity of said storage space.

12. The multi-media file automatic updating method according to claim 1, wherein said steps are carried out through a Universal Serial Bus interface.

13. A storage mediums readable to a computer, loaded with a multi-media file automatic updating software program which is used to update a plural of multi-media files with a sequence, and is used in a computer, to automatically update the contents stored in a portable device, wherein said multi-media file automatic updating software program mainly comprises:

program codes for setting a playing sequence of a plural of multi-media files;

program codes for copying at least one of said multi-media files to a storage space of said portable device according to said playing sequence;

program codes for judging whether said multi-media files stored in said storage space have been completely played;

program codes for deleting said multi-media files stored in said storage space which have been completely played; and

program codes for copying at least next one of said multi-media files, following said multi-media files already copied to said storage space, to said storage space according to said playing sequence.

14. The storage medium readable to a computer according to claim 13, wherein said program further comprises:

program codes for setting the capacity of said storage space.

15. A multi-media file playing system, comprising:

a host including a storage device and a control unit, said storage device electrically connected to said control unit, said control unit controlling the operation of said storage device, and said storage device storing with a plural of multi-media files; and

a portable device including a storage space connected to said host by a information-transmission interface;

wherein said control unit copies a plural of multi-media files stored in said storage device to said storage space, and generates a device list in said storage device to record the playing sequence of said multi-media files in said portable device.

16. The multi-media file playing system according to claim 15, wherein said device list includes the identifying code of said portable device, the file names of said multi-media files, or a series of sequence numbers corresponding to said multi-media files.

17. The multi-media file playing system according to claim 15, wherein said control unit further generates a playing record in said portable device to record whether said multi-media files stored in said storage space have been completely played.

18. The multi-media file playing system according to claim 15, wherein said playing record includes the identifying code of said portable device, the file names of said multi-media files, or a series of sequence numbers corresponding to said multi-media files.

19. The multi-media file playing system according to claim 15, wherein said playing record includes the file names of said multi-media files which have been completely played, or the complete playing time.

20. The multi-media file playing system according to claim 15, wherein said information-transmission interface is a Universal Serial Bus interface.