System and method of utilizing a network to correct flawed media data

• US 7,568,143 B2
• Filed: 01/18/2006
• Issued: 07/28/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 01/18/2006
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Shieh, Johnny Meng-Han, Hamzy, Mark J.
• Primary Examiner(s): Abraham; Esaw T
• Assistant Examiner(s): Alphonse; Fritz
• Application Number:
  US11/334,700
• Publication Number:
  US 20070208989A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,287 Days
• Field of Search: 714/746, 714/747, 714/736, 714/763, 714/770, 714/773
• US Class Current: 714/746
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/0742 in a data processing system embedded in a mobile device, e.g. mobile phones, handheld devices
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/0748 in a remote unit communicating with a single-box computer node experiencing an error/fault remote testing G06F11/2294
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/076 by exceeding a count or rate limit, e.g. word- or bit count limit
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/0793 Remedial or corrective actions recovery from an exception in an instruction pipeline G06F9/3861; by retry G06F11/1402; for recovering from a failure of a protocol instance or entity H04L69/40
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2220/2562 DVDs [digital versatile discs]; Digital video discs; MMCDs; HDCDs
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/36 Monitoring, i.e. supervising the progress of recording or reproducing for digital recording G11B20/00 and s.gr.; for monitoring, testing or measuring of TV recorders of the type covered by H04N5/76 and subgroups, see H04N17/06
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1059 End-user terminal functionalities specially adapted for real-time communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/142 Managing session states for stateless protocols; Signalling session states; State transitions; Keeping-state mechanisms
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/40 for recovering from a failure of a protocol instance or entity, e.g. service redundancy protocols, protocol state redundancy or protocol service redirection management of faults, events, alarms or notifications in data switching networks H04L41/06

Abstract

A system and method of utilizing a network to correct flawed media data. The media device includes a processor, a memory, a network adapter, a removable media interface, an error-correction module, and a communication module. The network device enables the media device to connect to the network and server. The removable media interface enables a user to couple a removable medium to the media device. After a user inserts a removable medium into the removable media interface, the processor and error-correction module examines the removable medium for physical errors. If the number of detected errors exceeds a predetermined threshold, the media device, via the network adapter and the communication module, queries a server for correction data. This correction data may be utilized by the media device to enable successful processing of the data stored on the removable medium.

Claims

1. A media device comprising:

a processor;

a data bus coupled to said processor;

a memory coupled to said data bus;

a network adapter, coupled to said data bus, wherein said network adapter couples said processor to a distributed network including at least one server;

a removable media interface for accepting a removable medium, said removable media interface coupled to said processor; and

a computer-usable storage medium embodying computer program code, said computer program code comprising instructions executable by said processor and configured for;

detecting a number of errors on said removable medium;

if said number of errors on said removable medium exceeds a predetermined threshold, querying said at least one server for correction data to be stored in said memory in accordance with at least one preference indicating a character of the correction data, wherein said at least one user preference indicates either high quality or low quality correction; and

merging said correction data with data stored on said removable medium during processing of the data stored on the removable medium by the processor to enable successful processing of said data stored on said removable medium.