MEDIA PLAYER

• US 20160134831A1
• Filed: 11/10/2015
• Published: 05/12/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 11/10/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: NXP B.V. (NXP Semiconductors NV)
• Original Assignee: NXP B.V. (NXP Semiconductors NV)
• Inventors: Dixit, Harish
• Granted Patent: US 9,762,845 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 10/1143 Bidirectional transmission
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4126 The peripheral being portable, e.g. PDAs or mobile phones
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/43637 involving a wireless protocol, e.g. Bluetooth, RF or wireless LAN [IEEE 802.11] arrangements for wireless networking or broadcasting of information in indoor or near-field type systems H04B10/114
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4722 for requesting additional data associated with the content
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4753 for user identification, e.g. by entering a PIN or password cryptographic authentication protocols H04L9/32; networks authentication protocols H04L63/08
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4781 Games
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47815 Electronic shopping payment schemes, payment architectures or payment protocols for electronic shopping systems G06Q20/12
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/765 Interface circuits between an apparatus for recording and another apparatus

Abstract

There is disclosed a media player comprising a playing unit being arranged to play at least one media element, and a processing unit being arranged to identify at least one data element in said media element, to extract said data element from the media element, and to make said data element available to an external NFC device. Furthermore, there is disclosed a corresponding method for playing media, a corresponding computer program, and a corresponding article of manufacture.

Claims

1. A media player comprising:

a playing unit being arranged to play at least one media element;

a processing unit being arranged to identify at least one data element in said media element, to extract said data element from the media element, and to make said data element available to an external Near Field Communication (NFC) device.

2. A media player as claimed in claim 1, wherein the processing unit is arranged to make the data element available by writing said data element to a location of a memory comprised in the media player, said location being allocated to an emulated NFC card comprised in the media player.

3. A media player as claimed in claim 1, wherein the processing unit is arranged to make the data element available by writing said data element to a memory comprised in an NFC tag which is connected to or embedded in the media player.

4. A media player as claimed in claim 1, wherein the processing unit is arranged to make the data element available by providing said data element to an NFC reader/writer which is connected to or embedded in the media player.

5. A media player as claimed in claim 1, wherein the processing unit is arranged to make the data element available while the media element is being played by the playing unit.

6. A media player as claimed in claim 1, wherein the data element comprises user-relevant information relating to the media element and/or at least one reference for obtaining said user-relevant information.

7. A media player as claimed in claim 1, wherein the data element comprises a command for initiating an authentication process between the media player and the external NFC device.

8. A media player as claimed in claim 7, wherein said command comprises an authentication key and a request to verify said authentication key.

9. A media player as claimed in claim 7, wherein said command, when being executed, initiates the retrieval of at least one authentication key stored in the external NFC device.

10. A media player as claimed in claim 7, wherein said command, when being executed, initiates the authentication process before the media element is played or while the media element is being played.

11. A media player as claimed in claim 1, wherein the media element is at least one of a portion of a video stream, a portion of a video file, a portion of an audio stream, a portion of an audio file, a portion of an internet live stream, a portion of a game;

and wherein the data element comprises at least one of statistical data, informative data, hyperlinks, interactive links, a command for initiating an authentication process.

15. A media system comprising a media player as claimed in claim 1, and an NFC device.

12. A method for playing media, wherein:

a playing unit plays at least one media element;

a processing unit identifies at least one data element in said media element, extracts said data element from the media element, and makes said data element available for reading by an external NFC device.

13. A computer program comprising program elements executable by a playing unit or a processing unit, said program elements comprising instructions which, when being executed by the playing unit or the processing unit, cause said playing unit and said processing unit to carry out or control respective steps of a method as claimed in claim 12.

14. An article of manufacture including a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having a computer program stored thereon that comprises program elements executable by a playing unit or a processing unit, said program elements comprising instructions which, when being executed by the playing unit or the processing unit, cause said playing unit and said processing unit to carry out or control respective steps of a method as claimed in claim 12.