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WIRELESS MEDIA SYSTEM WITH EMBEDDED MEDIA SERVER

  • US 20100057886A1
  • Filed: 12/20/2007
  • Published: 03/04/2010
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/20/2006
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A wireless media playback arrangement for streaming media to a media playback device on a local packet-based wireless network, the arrangement comprising:

  • a digitally-encoded non-volatile storage device to store digital media content;

    a reloadable memory to provide relatively fast access to data stored therein;

    a media center to wirelessly communicate the stored digital media content to the media playback device over the local packet-based wireless network; and

    a dynamically-updateable embedded media server adapted towirelessly discover and communicate with the media playback device on the local packet-based wireless network,store database tables identifying the stored digital media content on the NSD,pre-reserve space on the NSD to store the database tables,upon startup, in response to detecting an error in a current version of the database tables, load a previous version of the database tables into the reloadable memory, and in response to not detecting an error, load the current version of the database tables into the reloadable memory, andin response to a change in the stored digital media content, store a new version of the database tables to the NSD identifying the stored digital media content with the change while maintaining a previously-stored version of the database tables on the NSD.

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