UPDATING MULTI-MEDIA CONTENT IN A DIGITAL DOWNLOAD KIOSK

• US 20120066462A1
• Filed: 09/14/2010
• Published: 03/15/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 09/14/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: NCR Voyix Corporation
• Original Assignee: NCR Corporation
• Inventors: Henderson, James
• Granted Patent: US 9,396,464 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 711/159
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/123 Shopping for digital content
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/16 for devices exhibiting advertisements, announcements, pictures or the like

Abstract

A method of updating multi-media content at a digital download kiosk is described. The method comprises receiving a secure portable storage device into a portable device reader/writer in the kiosk; reading the secure portable storage device to ascertain if authorized multi-media content is stored thereon; uploading the multi-media content from the secure portable storage device to a data store accessible by the kiosk; and indicating when the multi-media content has been uploaded. The portable storage device may have been received by mail from a supplier, and the method may further comprise removing the portable storage device from the portable storage device reader/writer, and returning the removed portable storage device to the supplier by mail.

Claims

1. A method of updating multi-media content at a digital download kiosk, the method comprising:

receiving a secure portable storage device into a portable device reader/writer in the kiosk;

reading the secure portable storage device to ascertain if authorized multi-media content is stored thereon;

uploading the multi-media content from the secure portable storage device to a data store accessible by the kiosk; and

indicating when the multi-media content has been uploaded.

2. A method according to claim 1, wherein the method comprises the further steps of:

prior to the uploading step, ascertaining the amount of storage space required on the data store accessible by the kiosk to enable uploading of the authorized multi-media content;

in the event of insufficient storage space on the data store, deleting currently stored multi-media content from the data store according to a deletion criterion to free up the amount of storage space required for the authorized multi-media content.

3. A method according to claim 1, wherein the step of receiving a secure portable storage device into a portable device reader/writer in the kiosk comprises receiving a secure, solid state, non-volatile memory card.

4. A method according to claim 1, wherein the step of reading the secure portable storage device to ascertain if authorized multi-media content is stored thereon includes ascertaining if the multi-media content stored thereon includes digital rights management (DRM) technology identical to the DRM technology used by the currently stored multi-media content.

5. A method according to claim 1, wherein the step of reading the secure portable storage device to ascertain if authorized multi-media content is stored thereon includes accessing a serial number of the portable storage device and comparing the accessed serial number with one or more serial numbers previously notified to the kiosk and associated with multi-media content expected by the kiosk.

6. A method according to claim 1, wherein the method comprises the further step of informing a remote authorization database if an expected secure portable storage device has not been received within a predefined time period of receiving notification that a portable storage device having that serial number has been sent to the kiosk.

7. A method according to claim 1, wherein the step of reading the secure portable storage device to ascertain if authorized multi-media content is stored thereon includes ascertaining if the multi-media content stored on the portable storage device is protected using predefined cryptographic techniques.

8. A method according to claim 1, wherein the step of reading the secure portable storage device includes using the same portable device reader/writer to read the portable storage device as is used to write multi-media content to a portable storage device provided by a customer.

9. A method according to claim 1, wherein the data store accessible by the kiosk is located within the kiosk.

10. A method according to claim 1, wherein the data store accessible by the kiosk is located in a content server connected to, but separate from, the kiosk.

11. A method according to claim 1, wherein the step of indicating when the authorized multi-media content has been uploaded may further comprise presenting a screen on a display of the kiosk informing a user who inserted the secure portable storage device that the multi-media content has been successfully transferred to the kiosk.

12. A method according to claim 1, wherein the method comprises the further step of deleting the authorized multi-media content from the portable storage device once the authorized multi-media content has been uploaded therefrom.

13. A method according to claim 1, wherein the method further comprises removing the portable storage device from the portable storage device reader/writer, and returning the removed portable storage device to a supplier by mail.

14. A method of updating multi-media content at a digital download kiosk, the method comprising:

receiving by mail a secure storage device including multiple multi-media content files for uploading to a digital download kiosk;

inserting the received secure storage device into the digital download kiosk;

waiting for the digital download kiosk to validate the contents of the inserted secure storage device and transfer the contents of the inserted secure storage device to a data store accessible by the kiosk;

removing the inserted secure storage device from the kiosk; and

sending the removed secure storage device by mail to a nominated recipient.

15. A method according to claim 14, wherein the nominated recipient is the same entity that mailed the secure storage device.