Information storage medium containing enhanced AV (ENAV) buffer configuration information, reproducing method thereof and method for managing the buffer

• US 7,515,599 B2
• Filed: 03/30/2004
• Issued: 04/07/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 03/31/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Chung, Hyun-kwon, Park, Sung-wook
• Primary Examiner(s): Vu; Thong H
• Application Number:
  US10/812,089
• Publication Number:
  US 20040190861A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,834 Days
• Field of Search: 715/809, 715/854, 715/727, 715/512, 715/705, 715/716, 715/513, 709/203, 709/223, 709/219, 386/95
• US Class Current: 370/412
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 20/10527 Audio or video recording; Data buffering arrangements G11B20/12 - G11B20/18 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2020/10675 aspects of buffer control
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2020/10685 input interface, i.e. the way data enter the buffer, e.g. by informing the sender that the buffer is busy
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2020/10722 wherein the size of the buffer is variable, e.g. by adding additional memory cells for coping with input streams that have high bit rates
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2220/2541 Blu-ray discs; Blue laser DVR discs
• 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: 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: 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 21/4312 involving specific graphical features, e.g. screen layout, special fonts or colors, blinking icons, highlights or animations
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4314 for fitting data in a restricted space on the screen, e.g. EPG data in a rectangular grid
• 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 21/44004 involving video buffer management, e.g. video decoder buffer or video display buffer
• 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 21/4782 Web browsing , e.g. WebTV
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6125 involving transmission via Internet transmission by internet of broadcast information H04H60/82
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/84 Generation or processing of descriptive data, e.g. content descriptors systems specially adapted for using meta-information in broadcast systems H04H60/73
• 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 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 9/8042 : involving data reduction
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/8205 : involving the multiplexing of an additional signal and the colour video signal

Abstract

A recording and/or reproducing apparatus for use with an information storage medium including ENAV buffer configuration information includes: an ENAV buffer in which an ENAV file is loaded; and an ENAV engine which interprets and reproduces the ENAV file, wherein the ENAV engine allocates at least a portion of the ENAV buffer as an updateable markup area on the basis of ENAV buffer configuration information, reads the ENAV file, and loads the ENAV file in the ENAV buffer.

Claims

1. A method for managing an ENAV buffer in an interactive apparatus for use in an interactive mode, the method comprising:

allocating at least a portion of the ENAV buffer to be an updateable markup area provided for ENAV files on the basis of ENAV buffer configuration information; and

loading predetermined ENAV files to be buffered in the ENAV buffer in the allocated updateable markup area.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the allocating comprises allocating the updateable markup area according to memory size information included in the ENAV buffer configuration information.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the allocating comprises allocating the updateable markup area according to memory names and sizes information included in the ENAV buffer configuration information.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the allocating comprises reading the ENAV buffer configuration information recorded in a loading information file, and the loading comprises loading the corresponding ENAV file with reference to information for names and locations of ENAV files recorded in the loading information file.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the allocating comprises reading the ENAV buffer configuration information recorded in a loading information file using a memory element specifying whether one of the ENAV files is to be buffered in the updateable markup area.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the allocating comprises reading as the ENAV buffer configuration information memory names and sizes recorded in a loading information file using an attribute of a memory element of the loading information file.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the allocating comprises:

reading a predetermined loading information file with reference to a startup file included in a directory in which the ENAV files are stored; and

reading the ENAV buffer configuration information recorded in the read loading information file.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the loading comprises loading the ENAV files stored on a storage medium into the updateable markup area with reference to names and locations information of the ENAV files recorded in the loading information file.

9. The method of claim 7, wherein the loading comprises requesting from a server one of the ENAV files on the basis of name and location information of the ENAV files recorded in the loading information file and loading the one ENAV file provided from the server to the interactive apparatus to be buffered in the updateable markup area.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the allocating comprises:

displaying an error message if no area of the ENAV buffer is allocated, and

if the error message is not displayed, not loading the predetermined ENAV files to be buffered in the allocated updateable markup area.

11. A computer readable medium encoded-with processing instructions for implementing the method of claim 1 performed by a computer.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein the allocating further comprises reading the ENAV buffer configuration information file from a storage medium which stores audio and/or video (AV) data to be reproduced with the ENAV files by the interactive apparatus in the interactive mode.

13. The method of claim 12, further comprising detecting from the storage medium a memory element that indicates:

a location of the ENAV file as being on another storage medium other than the storage medium from which the AV data is read, and

a location of another ENAV file as being on the storage medium,

wherein the loading further comprises loading one of the ENAV files determined to be an updateable markup file to be buffered into the allocated updateable markup area of the ENAV buffer, and loading the other one of the ENAV files determined not to be an updateable markup file into another portion of the ENAV buffer other than the updateable markup area and which is not allocated for the updateable markup file.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the another storage medium is in a server, and the loading further comprises connecting to and retrieving from the server the ENAV file to be loaded in the updateable markup area of the ENAV buffer.

15. A method of managing a buffer for a chat service in an interactive device having an ENAV buffer, the method comprising:

allocating at least a portion of the ENAV buffer to be an updateable markup area provided for ENAV files on the basis of ENAV buffer configuration information; and

loading the ENAV files for the chat service in the allocated updateable markup area of the ENAV buffer.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein the allocating comprises allocating the updateable markup area according to memory size information included in the ENAV buffer configuration information.

17. The method of claim 15, wherein the allocating comprises allocating the updateable markup area according to memory names and sizes information included in the ENAV buffer configuration information.

18. The method of claim 15, wherein the allocating comprises reading the ENAV buffer configuration information recorded in a loading information file, and the loading comprises loading a corresponding one of the ENAV files with reference to name and location information of the ENAV files which are recorded in the read loading information file.

19. The method of claim 15, wherein the allocating comprises reading the ENAV buffer configuration information recorded in a loading information file using a memory element which indicates whether the ENAV file is to be buffered in the updateable markup area of the ENAV buffer.

20. The method of claim 15, wherein the allocating comprises reading as the ENAV buffer configuration information a memory name and size recorded in a loading information file using an attribute of a memory element of the loading information file.

21. The method of claim 15, wherein the allocating comprises:

reading a predetermined loading information file with reference to a startup file included in a directory in which ENAV files are stored; and

reading the ENAV buffer configuration information recorded in the read loading information file.

22. The method of claim 21, wherein the loading further comprises loading the ENAV files stored on a storage medium into the updateable markup area of the ENAV buffer with reference to names and locations information of the ENAV files recorded in the read loading information file.

23. The method of claim 21, wherein the loading further comprises:

requesting to a server one of the ENAV files on the basis of name and location information of the ENAV files recorded in the loading information file, and

loading the one ENAV file provided from the server in the updateable markup area of the ENAV buffer.

24. A method of managing a buffer of a recording and/or reproducing apparatus which reproduces first data and interactive data read from a storage medium in an interactive mode, the method comprising:

allocating the buffer to include an updateable markup area reserved for an updateable type of interactive file and another area for another type of the interactive file using the interactive data read from the storage medium;

prior to reproducing an interactive file with the first data in the interactive mode, loading the interactive file in the updateable markup area if the interactive file is determined to be the updateable type, and loading the interactive file in the another area if the interactive file is determined to be the another type.

25. The method of claim 24, further comprising determining a size of the updateable markup area using information read from the storage medium.

26. The method of claim 25, wherein the determining the size comprises reading a preset size for the updateable markup area included in the interactive data.

27. The method of claim 26, wherein the reading the preset size comprises detecting a loading information file with information on the interactive file to be loaded and which is stored on the storage medium, and reading the preset size from the loading information file.

28. The method of claim 25, wherein the determining the size comprises detecting a file system for the interactive data to be read from the storage medium, and determining the size for the updateable markup area from the file system.

29. The method of claim 25, wherein the determining the size comprises receiving the size set by another storage medium from which the interactive file is to be buffered.

30. The method of claim 29, further comprising detecting from the interactive data read from the storage medium a location of the another storage medium, wherein the receiving the size comprises sending a request for the interactive file from the apparatus to the another storage medium at the location, and receiving a response including a content size from the another storage medium.

31. The method of claim 30, wherein the loading the interactive file comprises receiving an indicator in the response which distinguishes the updateable type of the interactive file to be loaded in the updateable markup area and the another type.

32. The method of claim 24, wherein the allocating the buffer further comprises detecting a loading information file with information on the interactive file to be loaded and which is stored on the storage medium.

33. The method of claim 32, wherein the loading information file includes information on a location of the interactive file to be loaded, and the loading the interactive file comprises loading the interactive file from the location read from the loading information file.

34. The method of claim 33, wherein the location comprises a location on the storage medium, and the loading the interactive file comprises reading the interactive file from the storage medium at the location.

35. The method of claim 33, wherein the location comprises a location on another storage medium, and the loading the interactive file comprises reading the interactive file from the another storage medium at the location.

36. The method of claim 35, wherein the another storage medium is disposed in a server, and the loading the interactive file comprises establishing a connection to the server from the apparatus in order to receive the interactive file to be buffered.

37. The method of claim 36, further comprising receiving a response from the server indicating that the interactive file is to be buffered in the interactive area and setting a size of the allocated updateable markup area.

38. The method of claim 37, further comprising providing a chat service in the interactive mode using the interactive file buffered in the updateable markup area and the reproduced first data.

39. The method of claim 37, further comprising providing an internet service in the interactive mode using the interactive file buffered in the updateable markup area and the reproduced first data.

40. The method of claim 32, further comprising detecting an order of a plurality of interactive files for use in the interactive mode, and the loading the interactive file comprises loading the interactive file in the buffer using the detected order.

41. The method of claim 24, further comprising providing a chat service in the interactive mode using the interactive file buffered in the updateable markup area and the reproduced first data.

42. The method of claim 24, further comprising providing an internet service in the interactive mode using the interactive file buffered in the updateable markup area and the reproduced first data.

43. The method of claim 24, further comprising:

detecting if the interactive file has been updated as compared to the interactive file currently loaded, and

if the interactive file has been updated, loading the updated interactive file in the updateable markup area to replace the interactive file currently loaded in the updateable markup area.

44. The method of claim 43, wherein the interactive file and the updated interactive file are loaded from another storage medium connected to the buffer and other than the storage medium having the first data.

45. The method of claim 24, wherein the first data includes an image, and further comprising displaying the image in a first area of a display with the reproduced interactive file being displayed in a second area of the display.

46. The method of claim 45, wherein the first data includes a video comprising the image.

47. The method of claim 24, wherein the first data includes audio data, and further comprising displaying the reproduced interactive file in an interactive display as the audio data is reproduced.

48. A computer readable medium encoded with processing instructions for implementing the method of claim 24 performed by a computer.