SYSTEM AND A METHOD FOR DOWNLOADING MULTIMEDIA CONTENT AT A TERMINAL

• US 20090310936A1
• Filed: 07/04/2007
• Published: 12/17/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 07/07/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Xavier Lebegue
• Original Assignee: Xavier Lebegue
• Inventors: Lebegue, Xavier
• Application Number:
  US12/309,087
• Publication Number:
  US 20090310936A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 386/291
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/25891 being end-user preferences retrieval of video data in a video database based on user preferences G06F16/739; arrangements for recognizing users' preferences H04H60/46; user profiles in network data switching protocols H04L67/306; processing of user preferences or user profiles in wireless networks H04W8/18
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/26258 for generating a list of items to be played back in a given order, e.g. playlist, or scheduling item distribution according to such list retrieval of multimedia data based on playlists G06F16/40
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4331 Caching operations, e.g. of an advertisement for later insertion during playback
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4335 Housekeeping operations, e.g. prioritizing content for deletion because of storage space restrictions storage management, e.g. defragmentation G06F3/0604; unloading stored programs G06F9/445; storage management in file systems G06F16/10; buffering arrangements in a network node or in an end terminal in packet networks H04L49/90
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/44016 involving splicing one content stream with another content stream, e.g. for substituting a video clip
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4532 involving end-user characteristics, e.g. viewer profile, preferences monitoring of user activities for profile generation for accessing a video database G06F16/739; user profiles in network data switching protocols H04L67/306; processing of user preferences or user profiles in wireless networks H04W8/18
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/454 Content or additional data filtering, e.g. blocking advertisements
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/812 involving advertisement data advertising per se G06Q30/02
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/163 by receiver means only
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/17318 Direct or substantially direct transmission and handling of requests

Abstract

The present invention concerns a method and system for downloading multimedia content corresponding to a set of program types at a terminal. The method comprises, at a terminal, the steps of filling in a file with a set of program types, sending said file to a server, receiving content corresponding to the file, and receiving said content being regularly updated. Another object of the invention is a method for channel surfing between multimedia content at a terminal. It comprises the steps of downloading content and complementary content according to the previous method, playing the complementary content, receiving a request for channel surfing, checking whether channel surfing is allowed and, if channel surfing is not allowed, continuing playing the complementary content.

Claims

1-13. -13. (canceled)

14. Method at a terminal, for downloading multimedia content from a server, comprising, at the terminal, the steps of:

Filing an agenda with a set of program types in a timetable;

Sending said agenda to a server,

Regularly receiving an update of a multimedia content corresponding to the program types, and

Storing said multimedia content, said multimedia content being played according to the timetable.

15. Method, according to claim 14, comprising the step of receiving an update of said multimedia content every day, or when said content has been played or after a delay.

16. Method, according to claim 14 wherein the step of sending an agenda comprises the step of sending a user profile to the server said user profile corresponding to said agenda.

17. Method, according to claim 14, comprising the step of:

Receiving complementary content said content being not corresponding to the requested set of program types, and

Receiving channel surfing rules for defining channel surfing on said complementary content.

18. Method, according to claim 17, wherein the complementary content corresponds to the user profile and/or the content that has been downloaded.

19. Device for playing multimedia content, comprising

Managing means for filing an agenda with a set of programs types in a timetable,

Communicating means for sending said agenda to said server, and for regularly receiving an update of a multimedia content corresponding to said program type,

Storing means for storing said received multimedia content;

and

Means for playing said multimedia content according to the timetable.

20. Device according to claim 19, wherein communicating means are adapted to receive an update of a multimedia content every days or only when said content has been played or after a delay.

21. Device according to claim 20 comprising channel surfing means for channel surfing within said content according to rules received from the server.

22. Device for sending multimedia content, comprising:

Communicating means to communicate to a network comprising at least one client device,

Storing means for storing multimedia content and user profiles,

Means for receiving a file comprising a set of program types from said at least one client device,

Means for sending content to said at least one client according to said file and/or said user profile.