RFID ENABLED MEDIA SYSTEM AND METHOD THAT PROVIDES DYNAMIC DOWNLOADABLE MEDIA CONTENT

• US 20090085724A1
• Filed: 02/25/2004
• Published: 04/02/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 02/25/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Accenture Global Services Limited (Accenture PLC)
• Original Assignee: Accenture Global Services GmbH (Accenture PLC)
• Inventors: Fauvet, Patrice, Naressi, Alexandre
• Granted Patent: US 8,341,752 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/10.600
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/109 by using specially-adapted hardware at the client

Abstract

An audio and/or video media content providing device includes a controller, such as a server, that is responsive to RFID tag based information obtained from a remote RFID enabled media object. The controller is operative to facilitate access to media content associated with a stored periodically changing media content list. For example, a content registry database may be periodically updated through a suitable user interface to change a link between content identification information read from a remote RFID enabled media object, with media application information so that the same RFID tag may allow the downloading of different media. The link between the content ID and the media ID may be dynamically changed through the controller. This may be advantageous, to provide for example, a Top 10 song card or other RFID enabled object that stays the same but can be used to securely download different media over time.

Claims

1. An audio and/or video media content providing device comprising:

at least one controller operatively responsive to RFID tag based information obtained from a remote RFID enabled media object and operative to facilitate access to media content associated with a stored periodically changing media content list.

2. The audio and/or video media content providing device of claim 1 including memory containing the stored periodically changing media content list and wherein the RFID tag based information includes content identification information stored on an RFID tag located on the remote RFID enabled object and wherein the stored periodically changing media content list comprises a mapping table that maps static content identification information with varying media identification information.

3. The audio and/or video media content providing device of claim 1 wherein the controller selects the periodically changing media content list based on a determined geographic location of a media playing unit.

4. The audio and/or video media content providing device of claim 1 wherein the stored periodically changing media content list includes data representing at least one of:

a predetermined number of variable downloadable movies, a predetermined number of variable downloadable songs and a predetermined number of variable downloadable music albums.

5. The audio and/or video media content providing device of claim 1 wherein the controller includes a user interface operative to allow periodic changing of the media content list.

6. The audio and/or video media content providing device of claim 1 wherein the remote RFID enabled media object includes at least one of:

an RFID enabled ticket, an RFID enabled card and an RFID enabled 3-D object.

7. The audio and/or video media content providing device of claim 1 wherein the controller is operative to send media identification information represented in the stored periodically changing media content list, for a trusted digital audio and/or video media playing device having a radio frequency identification tag reader operatively coupled therewith to read RFID tag information from the RFID tag and that is operative to play media obtained based on the sent media identification information.

8. A digital audio and/or video playing system comprising:

an RFID enabled media object having an RFID tag coupled thereto;

a trusted digital audio and/or video media playing device having a radio frequency identification tag reader operatively coupled therewith to read RFID tag information from the RFID tag; and

a controller operatively responsive to read RFID tag based information obtained by the digital audio and/or video media playing device and operative to facilitate access to media content associated with a periodically changing media content list, and

wherein the digital audio and/or video media playing device is operative to play audio and/or video retrieved based on the periodically changing media content list.

9. The system of claim 8 further comprising a media content server that provides encrypted media content identified by the periodically changing media content list for the trusted digital audio and/or video media playing device and wherein the controller provides digital rights management services.

10. A method for providing digital audio and/or video media content comprising:

receiving RFID tag based information obtained from a remote RFID enabled media object; and

facilitating access to media content associated with a stored periodically changing media content list.

11. The method of claim 10 including selecting the periodically changing media content list based on a determined geographic location of a media playing unit.

12. The method of claim 11 wherein the stored periodically changing media content list includes data representing at least one of:

a predetermined number of variable downloadable movies, a predetermined number of variable downloadable songs and a predetermined number of variable downloadable music albums.

13. The method of claim 11 comprising periodically changing the media content list in response to user input from a user interface.

14. The method of claim 11 comprising sending media identification information represented in the stored periodically changing media content list, for a trusted digital audio and/or video media playing device having a radio frequency identification tag reader operatively coupled therewith to read RFID tag information from the RFID tag and that is operative to play media obtained based on the sent media identification information.