Presentation of media content from multiple media sources

• US 7,178,106 B2
• Filed: 08/21/2001
• Issued: 02/13/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 04/21/1999
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Rovi Technologies Corporation (Adeia Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Sonic Solutions (Adeia Inc.)
• Inventors: Collart, Todd R., Gewickey, Greg, Lamkin, Allan B.
• Primary Examiner(s): Bayerl, Raymond J.
• Application Number:
  US09/935,756
• Publication Number:
  US 20020078144A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,002 Days
• Field of Search: 386/125, 386/66, 386/40, 386/45, 386/83, 386/124, 715/716, 715/717, 715/500.1, 715/501.1, 715/719, 715/512, 715/718, 715/721, 715/720, 715/738, 715/733, 715/748, 709/217, 709/219, 725/109, 725/110, 725/112, 725/131, 725/133, 725/141, 725/51, 725/52, 705/14
• US Class Current: 715/716
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/40 of multimedia data, e.g. slideshows comprising image and additional audio data retrieval of still image data G06F16/50; retrieval of audio data G06F16/60; retrieval of video data G06F16/70
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/957 Browsing optimisation, e.g. caching or content distillation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/10 Protecting distributed programs or content, e.g. vending or licensing of copyrighted material protection in video systems or pay television H04N7/16 ; Digital rights management [DRM]
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 17/00 Methods or arrangements for effecting co-operative working between equipments covered by two or more of main groups G06K1/00 - G06K15/00, e.g. automatic card files incorporating conveying and reading operations
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/08 Logistics, e.g. warehousing, loading or distribution; Inventory or stock management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/06 Buying, selling or leasing transactions
• 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 20/00086 Circuits for prevention of unauthorised reproduction or copying, e.g. piracy indicating unauthorised use of record carriers in general G11B23/28; scrambling for television signal recording H04N5/913; network architectures or network protocols for network security H04L63/00; cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for secret or secure communication H04L9/00
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 20/00876 wherein physical copy protection means are attached to the medium, e.g. holograms, sensors, or additional semiconductor circuitry
• 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 23/36 Signals on record carriers or on containers and recorded by the same method as the main recording
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/034 on discs G11B27/036, G11B27/038 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/105 of operating discs
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/11 by using information not detectable on the record carrier
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/329 on a disc [VTOC]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1101 Session protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/764 : at the destination reformatting of additional data in video clients H04N21/4355
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 : based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/303 : Terminal profiles
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• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/329 : in the application layer [OSI layer 7]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/40 : Network security protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/235 : Processing of additional data, e.g. scrambling of additional data or processing content descriptors
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/23614 : Multiplexing of additional data and video streams arrangements for simultaneous broadcast of plural pieces of information H04H20/28
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4147 : PVR [Personal Video Recorder] H04N5/76 takes precedence ; arrangements for broadcast with accumulation-type receivers H04H20/40
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42646 : for reading from or writing on a non-volatile solid state storage medium, e.g. DVD, CD-ROM
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4325 : by playing back content from the storage medium reproduction of recorded television signals H04N5/76; reproduction of recorded television signals H04N9/79
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4348 : Demultiplexing of additional data and video streams
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/435 : Processing of additional data, e.g. decrypting of additional data, reconstructing software from modules extracted from the transport stream
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4381 : Recovering the multiplex stream from a specific network, e.g. recovering MPEG packets from ATM cells transmission of MPEG streams over ATM H04L12/5601
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4408 : involving video stream encryption, e.g. re-encrypting a decrypted video stream for redistribution in a home network
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/443 : OS processes, e.g. booting an STB, implementing a Java virtual machine in an STB or power management in an STB
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4622 : Retrieving content or additional data from different sources, e.g. from a broadcast channel and the Internet web site content organization and management for information retrieval from the Internet G06F16/958; transmission by internet of broadcast information H04H60/82; stock exchange data over packet-switching network H04L12/1804; push services including data channel over packet-switching network H04L12/1859
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47 : End-user applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4782 : Web browsing , e.g. WebTV
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/60 : Network structure or processes for video distribution between server and client or between remote clients; Control signalling between clients, server and network components; Transmission of management data between server and client , e.g. sending from server to client commands for recording incoming content stream; Communication details between server and client
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6125 : involving transmission via Internet transmission by internet of broadcast information H04H60/82
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/64322 : IP
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• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/85406 : involving a specific file format, e.g. MP4 format
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8543 : using a description language, e.g. Multimedia and Hypermedia information coding Expert Group [MHEG], eXtensible Markup Language [XML] information retrieval of semistructured data, the underlying structure being taken into account, e.g. mark-up language structure data G06F16/80
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8586 : by using a URL processing chained hypermedia data for information retrieval G06F16/94; information retrieval from the Internet by using URLs G06F16/955; URL in broadcast information H04H20/93; Web-based protocols H04L67/02
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/765 : Interface circuits between an apparatus for recording and another apparatus
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/775 : between a recording apparatus and a television receiver
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/85 : on discs or drums
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/9305 : involving the mixing of the reproduced video signal with a non-recorded signal, e.g. a text signal
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/17318 : Direct or substantially direct transmission and handling of requests
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/7921 : for more than one processing mode
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/8042 : involving data reduction
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/8047 : using transform coding
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/8063 : using time division multiplex of the PCM audio and PCM video signals
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/8205 : involving the multiplexing of an additional signal and the colour video signal
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/8715 : involving the mixing of the reproduced video signal with a non-recorded signal, e.g. a text signal

Abstract

A media services interface for use in a readable medium playback device enables synchronization of disparate media playback, network directed playback of media, media playback control via displayed html/javascript file, logging of consumer identifier, media identifier, and playback device identifier in a cookie or log file. The media services comprises a command handler, a properties handler, an event generator, a cookie manager, a navigator state module, an identifier engine, an initialization module, and a bookmark manager. The command handler executes commands received from a connected network, a displayed html/javascript file, etc.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

a display;

a removable media; and

a computing device operably coupled to said removable media, a network, and said display, said computing device at least once accessing data on said network, said computing device comprising;

a storage device,

a browser having a presentation engine displaying content on said display,

an application programming interface residing in said storage device,

a decoder processing content received from said removable media and producing media content substantially suitable for display on said display, and

a navigator coupled to said decoder and said application programming interface, said navigator facilitating user and network-originated control of the playback of said removable media and a determination whether the removable media is an enhanced media that defines access to defined network content and whether to access default network content when the removable media is not enhanced media, said computing device receiving network content from said network and combining said network content with said media content, said presentation engine displaying said combined network content and media content on said display.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein said navigator facilitates a determination whether to operate in a movie mode or a system mode responsive to said removable media.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the navigator further facilitates a determination of whether a default player mode is available for source integration when operating in said system mode to launch a standard playback when the default player mode is unavailable.

4. A media services interface for use in controlling the extraction of information from a readable medium by a computing device comprising:

a command handler configured to execute received commands extracted from network-originated content to control playback of removable readable medium and to implement commands to determine whether the removable media is an enhanced media at least instructing initial access to defined network content and whether to access default enhanced content from the readable medium when a network connection is unavailable;

a properties handler configured to report the state of a system attribute in response to a query;

an event generator configured to provide notification of one or more system events;

a cookie manager configured to generate at least one system cookie for preserving information for later recall; and

a navigator state module operably coupled to said command handler, said properties handler, said event generator, and said cookie manager, said navigator state module configured to maintain information regarding the state of said information extraction from said readable medium.

5. A media services interface as in claim 4 further comprising:

an identifier engine configured to receive information from said computing device regarding the identity of either said removable media or said computing device, said identifier engine operably coupled to said navigator state module and said cookie manager.

6. The media services interface of claim 4, wherein the command handler instructs to access the network content when the removable readable medium is an enhanced readable medium and to access default network content when the removable readable medium is not an enhanced readable medium.

7. A media services interface for use in controlling the extraction of information from a readable medium by a computing device comprising:

a command handler configured to execute received commands extracted from network-originated content to control playback of removable readable medium and to implement commands to determine whether the removable media is an enhanced media at least instructing initial access to defined network content and whether to access default enhanced content from the readable medium when a network connection is unavailable;

a properties handler configured to report the state of a system attribute in response to a query;

an event generator configured to provide notification of one or more system events;

a cookie manager configured to generate at least one system cookie for preserving information for later recall;

a navigator state module operably coupled to said command handler, said properties handler, said event generator, and said cookie manager, said navigator state module configured to maintain information regarding the state of said information extraction from said readable medium;

a bookmark manager configured to generate one or more bookmarks, each said bookmark preserving playback information regarding a position in an information stream extracted from said readable medium, said bookmark enabling later return to said position in said information stream.

8. A media services interface as in claim 7 further comprising:

a command library comprising one or more commands for use with said command handler, said one or more commands comprising;

a command configured to cause said computing device to retrieve a medium identifier from said readable medium, said medium identifier comprising information unique to said readable medium.

9. A media services interface as in claim 8, said command library further comprising:

a command configured to cause said said bookmark; and

a command configured to retrieve a stored bookmark and cause a return to a position in an information playback stream as indicated by said stored bookmark.

10. A media services interface as in claim 8, said command library further comprising:

a command for connecting to a network operably connected to said computing device.

11. A media services interface as in claim 10, said command library further comprising:

a command for closing a previously established connection to a network operably connected to said computing device.

12. A media services interface as in claim 8, wherein said command library further comprises:

a playback command that implements playback of the readable medium;

a pause command that pauses playback of the readable medium wherein the pause command is configured to allow playback of the readable medium to resume from the point of playback where the command configured to cause the playback of the readable medium to pause was issued; and

a halt command that halts the playback of the readable medium.

13. A media services interface as in claim 8, wherein said command library further comprises a properties request command that causes the command handler to request properties from the property handler, said properties comprising:

an enhance property indicating whether the readable medium is an enhanced medium;

a format property indicating the media format of the readable medium; and

a bookmark count property indicating the number of bookmarks that have been saved for the readable medium.

14. A media services interface as in claim 8, wherein said command library further comprising:

an aspect ratio command configured to set an aspect ratio for display of content received from said removable media.

15. A media services interface as in claim 8, wherein said command library further comprising:

a launch command configured to launch an application program located on said removable media.

16. A media services interface as in claim 7 further comprising:

a properties library comprising one or more properties for use with said properties handler, said one or more properties comprising;

a property indicating the type of ROM data on said readable media operably coupled to said computing device.

17. A media services interface as in claim 16 further comprising:

a display for displaying visual information; and

wherein said properties library comprises a code routine for ascertaining the full screen mode state of said screen.

18. A media services interface as in claim 7, wherein the event generator generates events comprising:

a state event indicating that the state of playback of the readable medium has changed; and

a net event indicating that a change in network connectivity has occurred.