Device and process for remote management of a network of audiovisual information reproduction systems
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Abstract
Management device for a network of audiovisual information reproduction systems or jukeboxes, including a database with a plurality of sets of arrays, each array containing grouped information either about the composition of a jukebox, or the use of the jukebox, or the payment of fees. The database is managed by a computer server connected with the audiovisual information reproduction systems to receive messages sent by each audiovisual information reproduction device and containing information necessary to update determined sets of arrays in the database, and update data or the program for each audiovisual information reproduction device with information stored in at least one set of arrays in the database and transmitted in this message.
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42 Claims
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33. An digital audiovisual distribution system, comprising:
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a network; a server; and a plurality of jukeboxes connectable to the server via respective communications pathways across the network; wherein the server comprises a database responsible for central management of the plurality of jukeboxes, and wherein each said jukebox includes instructions tangibly stored on a computer-readable storage medium which, when executed by a processor provided to the jukebox, cause the jukebox at least to; generate, at the jukebox, at least management data concerning at least one of a hardware, software, or firmware component of the jukebox, transfer said management data from the jukebox to the server, and receive update instructions for the jukebox from the server to the jukebox in response to the server receiving and processing the management data from the jukebox, the processing of the management data by the server including identifying the jukebox, updating the database, and locating the update instructions for updating data in the jukebox. - View Dependent Claims (34, 35, 36, 37)
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38. A digital jukebox, comprising:
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a connection across a digital audiovisual distribution network to a server, the server comprising a database used in central management of the jukebox; and instructions tangibly stored on a computer-readable storage medium which, when executed by a processor provided to the jukebox, cause the jukebox at least to; generate, at the jukebox, at least management data concerning at least one of a hardware, software, or firmware component of the jukebox, transfer said management data from the jukebox to the server, and receive update instructions for the jukebox from the server to the jukebox in response to the server receiving and processing the management data from the jukebox, the processing of the management data by the server including identifying the jukebox, updating the database, and locating the update instructions for updating data in the jukebox. - View Dependent Claims (39, 40, 41, 42)
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