METHOD FOR DOWNLOADING CONTENT FROM A SERVER ONTO A RECORDING MEDIUM AS WELL AS RECORDING MEDIUM BEING SUITABLE THEREFOR

• US 20140181251A1
• Filed: 01/03/2014
• Published: 06/26/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 04/22/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony DADC Austria AG (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony DADC Austria AG (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: RIEGLER, Andreas, HOEPOLDSEDER, Erich
• Granted Patent: US 9,553,921 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/217
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1101 Session protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/329 in the application layer [OSI layer 7]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/40 Network security protocols

Abstract

A method for transferring content from a server (2) onto a recording medium (14), said server (2) being accessable via a communication network (4), comprises the following steps:

• a) connecting said recording medium (14) to a networkable device (3),
• b) establishing a connection between the networkable device (3) and said server (2) via said communication network (4), and
• c) transferring content from said server (2) onto said recording medium (14) via said networkable device (3),
• wherein at least one of steps b) and c) is managed by an application which is provided on said recording medium (14) and which is activated or is activatable after said recording medium (14) has been connected to said networkable device (3).

Claims

1. (canceled)

2. A method for operating a networkable device, the method comprising:

activating, by the networkable device, an application stored on a recording medium after the recording medium has been connected to the networkable device;

establishing a connection between the networkable device and a server via a communication network; and

receiving content from the server, wherein

the establishing the connection and/or the receiving the content is managed, by the networkable device, via the application that is stored on the recording medium, and

the receiving the content from the server includes a streaming process, where parts of the content that have already been received from the server by the networkable device are written onto the recording medium before all remaining parts of the content have been received from the server by the networkable device.

3. The method according to claim 2, further comprising:

storing access information as data on the recording medium, the access information required to access downloadable content stored on the server.

4. The method according to claim 3, further comprising:

accessing the downloadable content stored on the server based on the access information.

5. The method according to claim 4, further comprising:

updating, by the application, the access information stored on the recording medium after the downloadable content is accessed in the accessing, wherein the updating includes changing the access information to indicate to the application or the server content that is allowed to be received from the server, and storing the changed access information on the recording medium.

6. The method according to claim 4, wherein the access information identifies a certain amount of credit or number of credit points, wherein the amount of credit or the number of credit points specifies an amount or a type of content that is allowed to be received from the server.

7. The method according to claim 6, further comprising:

updating, by the application, the access information stored on the recording medium after the downloadable content is accessed in the accessing, wherein the updating includes decreasing the amount of credit or the number of credit points, and storing the decreased amount of credit or the number of credit points on said recording medium according to the amount or type of the content received in the receiving.

8. The method according to claim 4, wherein the access information identifies an amount or a kind of content that may be received from the server during the receiving.

9. The method according to claim 2, wherein the establishing the connection and/or the receiving the content is managed, by the networkable device, via the application that is stored on the recording medium and access information that includes authentication information.

10. The method according to claim 9, further comprising:

receiving a user input to provide at least a portion of the authentication information.

11. The method according to claim 2, wherein the recording medium is a recordable CD, a recordable DVD, a recordable blue ray disk, a hybrid CD, a hard disk, a memory stick, a memory card, or a memory part of a MP 2/3/4 player, phone, personal computer, or handheld device.

13. A non-transitory computer-readable medium including instructions, which when executed by circuitry, cause the circuitry to perform a process according to the method recited in claim 2.

14. A networkable device including circuitry configured to:

activate an application stored on a recording medium after the recording medium has been connected to the networkable device;

establish a connection between the networkable device and a server via a communication network; and

receive content from the server, wherein

the circuitry is configured to manage the establishment of the connection and/or reception of the content with the application that is stored on the recording medium, and

the circuitry is configured to receive the content from the server by a streaming process, where parts of the content that have already been received from the server by the networkable device are written onto the recording medium before all remaining parts of the content have been received from the server by the networkable device.