System, method and article of manufacture for updating content stored on a portable storage medium

• US 6,944,621 B1
• Filed: 01/03/2000
• Issued: 09/13/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 04/21/1999
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Rovi Technologies Corporation (Adeia Inc.)
• Original Assignee: InterActual Technologies Incorporated (Adeia Inc.)
• Inventors: Collart, Todd R.
• Primary Examiner(s): JUNG, DAVID YIUK
• Application Number:
  US09/476,190
• Time in Patent Office: 2,080 Days
• Field of Search: 707 1-206
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 19/022 Control panels
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 19/12 by sensing distinguishing features of or on records, e.g. diameter end mark
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 19/16 Manual control
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2220/2545 CDs
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2220/2562 DVDs [digital versatile discs]; Digital video discs; MMCDs; HDCDs
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/105 of operating discs
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/764 at the destination reformatting of additional data in video clients H04N21/4355
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99943 Generating database or data structure, e.g. via user interface
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99953 Recoverability

Abstract

A system, method, and article of manufacture is provided for updating content stored on a portable storage medium. Upon input of a portable storage medium into a machine by a user, the content stored on the portable storage medium is read. After reading the content of the portable storage medium, a separate storage medium is accessed and content is received therefrom. The content from the separate storage medium is an update of the content of the portable storage medium. This content of the separate storage medium is then displayed.

Claims

1. A method of providing updated multimedia content of a portable storage medium comprising the steps of:

reading at a local machine multimedia content stored on a portable storage medium;

automatically determining if updated multimedia content of the portable storage medium is stored on a separate storage medium in response to the reading at the local machine the multimedia content stored on the portable storage medium; and

displaying one of the local machine multimedia content stored on the portable storage medium and the updated multimedia content of the portable storage medium stored on the separate storage medium as a function of the automatically determining.

2. The method of claim 1 further comprising the steps of:

receiving the updated multimedia content of the portable storage medium over a network from the separate storage medium;

storing the updated multimedia content of the portable storage medium on a local storage medium.

3. The method of claim 1 further comprising the steps of:

automatically determining if updated multimedia content of the portable storage medium is stored on a local storage medium in response to the reading at the local machine the multimedia content stored on the portable storage medium;

automatically comparing the updated multimedia content of the portable storage medium stored on the local storage medium to the updated multimedia content of the portable storage medium stored on the separate storage medium, wherein the separate storage medium is a remote storage medium; and

wherein said displaying further comprises displaying one of the local machine multimedia content stored on the portable storage medium, the updated multimedia content of the portable storage medium stored on the local storage medium, and the updated multimedia content of the portable storage medium stored on the remote storage medium as a function of the comparing automatically.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein the portable storage medium is a DVD.

5. A system for providing updated multimedia content of a portable storage medium comprising:

a portable storage medium for storing multimedia content;

a separate storage medium for storing updated multimedia content of the multimedia content stored on the portable storage medium;

a processor means for automatically determining a presence of the updated multimedia content of the portable storage medium stored on the separate storage medium in response to accessing the multimedia content stored on the portable storage medium; and

a processor for automatically displaying the updated multimedia content stored on the separate storage medium instead of at least a portion of the multimedia content stored on the portable storage medium.

6. The system of claim 5 further comprising a local storage medium for storing updated multimedia content downloaded from the separate storage medium, wherein the separate storage medium is a remote storage medium.

7. The system of claim 6 further comprising

a processor means for comparing the updated multimedia content stored on the remote storage medium with the updated content stored on the local storage medium;

and

a processor means for displaying the most current updated multimedia content instead of the multimedia content on the portable storage medium.

8. The system of claim 5 wherein the portable storage medium is a DVD.