RENDER, CONTROLLER AND MANAGING METHODS THEREOF

• US 20130318206A1
• Filed: 12/06/2012
• Published: 11/28/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 05/28/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Gemtek Technology Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Gemtek Technology Company Limited
• Inventors: Hsiao, Ju-Hung
• Application Number:
  US13/707,557
• Publication Number:
  US 20130318206A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/219
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/60 Scheduling or organising the servicing of application requests, e.g. requests for application data transmissions using the analysis and optimisation of the required network resources admission control or resource allocation H04L47/70
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/43615 Interfacing a Home Network, e.g. for connecting the client to a plurality of peripherals home Audio Video Interoperability [HAVI] data switching networks H04L12/2805

Abstract

A render, a controller, and managing methods thereof are provided. The render includes a storage unit, a playback unit, and a determination unit. The storage unit includes an instruction queue temporarily saving an instruction from the controller. According to a playback instruction from the controller, the playback unit downloads a multimedia file from a server through a network and plays the multimedia file. The determination unit receives the instruction through the network and determines whether a first controller identification information is identical to a second controller identification information corresponding to the multimedia currently played by the render. When the first controller identification information is identical to the second controller identification information, the render performs an operative action corresponding to the instruction. When the first controller identification information is different from the second controller identification information, the instruction is saved in the instruction queue of the storage unit.

Claims

1. A render, comprising:

a storage unit, comprising an instruction queue, temporarily saving at least one instruction from at least one controller;

a playback unit, connected to the storage unit, downloading at least one multimedia file from a server through a network, and playing one of the multimedia file according to the at least one instruction from the at least one controller; and

a determination unit, connected to the storage unit, respectively receiving the at least one instruction through the network, and determining whether a first controller identification information of each instruction is identical to a second controller identification information corresponding to the multimedia file currently played by the render, wherein

when the first controller identification information is identical to the second controller identification information, the render executes an operative action corresponding to the instruction; and

when the first controller identification information is different from the second controller identification information, the instruction is saved in the instruction queue of the storage unit.

2. The render as claimed in claim 1, wherein when the determination unit determines that the first controller identification information of the instruction is identical to the second controller identification information corresponding to the multimedia file currently played, a first controller generating the instruction has a control right of the render.

3. The render as claimed in claim 2, wherein if the determination unit determines that the first controller identification information of the instruction is different from the second controller identification information corresponding to the multimedia file currently played, the first controller generating the instruction does not have the control right of the render.

4. The render as claimed in claim 2, wherein the storage unit further comprises:

a multimedia queue, temporarily saving the at least one multimedia file downloaded from the server, wherein when each time the storage unit temporarily saves a multimedia file, the storage unit makes the multimedia file correspond to a controller identification information of a controller selecting the multimedia file.

5. The render as claimed in claim 4, wherein if the first controller has the control right, and when all multimedia files corresponding to the first controller identification information of the first controller in the multimedia queue are played, the render transfers the control right to a second controller, and the render sequentially executes at least one instruction having a third controller identification information of the second controller in the instruction queue.

6. The render as claimed in claim 5, wherein the operative action corresponding to the instruction comprises an action of playing, an action of pausing, an action of forwarding, an action of rewinding, an action of skipping current multimedia file, or an action of adjusting volume.

7. The render as claimed in claim 3, wherein when the render receives a request information from a second controller, the determination unit compares a first authorization level of the first controller having the control right with a second authorization level of the second controller, wherein when the determination unit determines that the second authorization level is higher than the first authorization level, the render transfers the control right to the second controller, and executes at least one instruction corresponding to the second controller in the instruction queue first.

8. The render as claimed in claim 7, wherein the request information comprises a request information of control right and a request information of cleaning up instruction queue, wherein when the render receives the request information of cleaning up instruction queue, the storage unit cleans up all instructions corresponding to the first controller in the instruction queue and transfers the control right to the second controller.

9. The render as claimed in claim 8, wherein when the render receives the request information of control right having a first code from the second controller, the render compares to see whether the first code is identical to a preset second code, wherein when the first code is identical to the second code, the render transfers the control right to the second controller.

10. A managing method of render, comprising:

temporarily saving at least one instruction from at least one controller;

downloading at least one multimedia file from a server through a network and playing one of the multimedia file according to the at least one instruction from the at least one controller;

respectively receiving the at least one instruction through the network and determining whether a first controller identification information of each instruction is identical to a second controller identification information corresponding to the multimedia file currently played;

when the first controller identification information is identical to the second controller identification information, executing an operative action corresponding to the instruction; and

when the first controller identification information is different from the second controller identification information, saving the instruction in an instruction queue.

11. The managing method of render as claimed in claim 10, wherein when it is determined that the first controller identification information of the instruction is identical to the second controller identification information corresponding to the multimedia file currently played, a first controller generating the instruction has a control right of the render.

12. The managing method of render as claimed in claim 11, wherein when it is determined that the first controller identification information of the instruction is different from the second controller identification information corresponding to the multimedia file currently played, the first controller generating the instruction does not have the control right of the render.

13. The managing method of render as claimed in claim 11, further comprises:

temporarily saving the at least one multimedia file downloaded from the server, wherein when each time a multimedia file is temporarily saved, making the multimedia file correspond to a controller identification information of a controller selecting the multimedia file.

14. The managing method of render as claimed in claim 13, wherein if the first controller has the control right, and when all multimedia files corresponding to the first controller identification information of the first controller in the multimedia queue are played, transferring the control right to a second controller, and sequentially executing at least one instruction having a third controller identification information of the second controller in the instruction queue.

15. The managing method of render as claimed in claim 14, wherein the operative action corresponding to the instruction comprises an action of playing, an action of pausing, an action of forwarding, an action of rewinding, an action of skipping current multimedia file, or an action of adjusting volume.

16. The managing method of render as claimed in claim 11, comprising:

when a request information sent from a second controller is received, comparing a first authorization level of the first controller having the control right currently and a second authorization level of the second controller; and

when it is determined that the second authorization level of the second controller is higher than the first authorization level, transferring the control right to the second controller, and executing at least one instruction corresponding to the second controller having the control right in the instruction queue first.

17. The managing method of render as claimed in claim 16, wherein the request information comprises a request information of control right and a request information of cleaning up instruction queue, wherein when the request information of cleaning up instruction queue is received, cleaning up all instructions corresponding to the first controller and transferring the control right to the second controller.

18. The managing method of render as claimed in claim 17, comprising:

when the request information of control right having a first code is received from the second controller, comparing whether the first code is identical to a preset second code; and

when the first code is identical to the preset second code, transferring the control right to the second controller.

19. A controller, comprising:

a generation unit, generating an instruction, wherein the instruction has a controller identification information of the controller; and

a request unit, connected to the generation unit, sending a request information to a render to request a control right of the render when the controller does not have the control right of the render, wherein the request information comprises the controller identification information.

20. The controller as claimed in claim 19, wherein the request unit sends a request information of cleaning up information queue so as to request for cleaning up all instructions corresponding to another controller having the control right in the instruction queue.

21. The controller as claimed in claim 19, wherein the request unit sends a request information having a first code, if the first code is identical to a preset second code of the render, the controller obtains the control right of the render.

22. A managing method of controller, adapted for a controller to control a render, comprising:

generating an instruction, wherein the instruction has a controller identification information of the controller; and

when the controller does not have a control right of the render, sending a request information to the render to request the control right of the render, wherein the request information comprises the controller identification information.

23. The managing method of controller as claimed in claim 22, wherein the step of sending the request information to the render comprises:

sending request information of cleaning up instruction queue so as to request for cleaning up all instructions corresponding to another controller having the control right in an instruction queue of the render.

24. The managing method of controller as claimed in claim 22, wherein the step of sending the request information to the render comprises:

sending a request information having a first code; and

when the first code is identical to a preset second code of the render, the controller obtains the control right of the render.