Downloading file reception process

• US 7,992,178 B1
• Filed: 06/01/2000
• Issued: 08/02/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 02/16/2000
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: TouchTunes Music Corporation (The Octave Music Group, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: TouchTunes Music Corporation (The Octave Music Group, Inc.)
• Inventors: Nathan, Guy, Dion, Dominique, Phillips, Ken, Khenfir, Mounir
• Primary Examiner(s): Shang; Annan Q
• Application Number:
  US09/583,863
• Time in Patent Office: 4,079 Days
• Field of Search: 725/134, 725/50, 725 86-119, 707/102, 707/204, 709219-222, 709/231
• US Class Current: 725/93
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/164 File meta data generation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/2282 Tablespace storage structures; Management thereof
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/61 Indexing; Data structures therefor; Storage structures
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/105 of operating discs
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/91 Television signal processing therefor

Abstract

Process for receiving files sent by a central server to an audiovisual data reproduction system, managed by an operating system and linked to the server, by means of a data transfer link, characterised in that the process comprises:

• • a step consisting of initialising a link between the central server and an audiovisual data reproduction system,
  • a step consisting of storing files sent by the central server on storage means of the audiovisual data reproduction system, each file comprising specified information representative of the type of data contained in the file,
  • a step consisting of searching, for each file received, a specific reception function, this search step being carried out by means of the specified information representative of the type of data contained in the file,
  • a step consisting of processing each file by the corresponding reception function, the processing comprising copying of the file received to a specified storage area.

Claims

1. A method for receiving files sent by a central server to an audiovisual data reproduction system managed by an operating system and linked to the server using a data transfer link, the method comprising:

initializing a link between the central server and an audiovisual data reproduction system,

selecting an available storage area of a specified minimum size,

opening a reception file on a first permanent storage means of said audiovisual data reproduction system, corresponding to the available storage area selected,

receiving each packet of said file sent by the central server and directly writing each said packet sent by the central server to said reception file, each file having information representative of a type of data associated with the file,

for each file received, searching for a reception function to be associated with each received file based at least in part on the information representative of the type of data associated with the file, and

processing each received file by the corresponding reception function, the processing comprising copying the received file to a second storage means to update a database of the audiovisual reproduction system according to the data included in the received file,

wherein the minimum size corresponds to a size of the file sent by the central server.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising performing said searching when the last data packet of the file is stored in the second storage means.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the information representative of the type of data comprises the file extension and/or the name of the file received.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein when the information representative of the type of data represents a song file, the database update step comprises at least one of the following steps:

associating the received song file with a graphical file stored in the audiovisual reproduction system,

checking the compatibility of the version of the song file with a version of an operating system of the audiovisual data reproduction system,

updating a file stored on the audiovisual data reproduction system that identifies all songs stored on the audiovisual data reproduction system,

updating a statistics table in the database making it possible to determine a selection frequency of the song corresponding to the file stored in memory,

updating a purchase table containing the number and name of all the songs purchased for the audiovisual data reproduction system, and

updating a counter of songs that can be selected to check that the number of songs that can be selected is not greater than a specified threshold.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising when said searching does match a received file to a reception function, storing the received file in the first storage means.