Interrupting and resuming a media player

• US 8,320,890 B2
• Filed: 08/15/2011
• Issued: 11/27/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 12/31/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Adobe Inc.
• Original Assignee: Adobe Systems Incorporated (Adobe Inc.)
• Inventors: Borcic, Rob, Thilgen, Chris, Balakrishnan, Govind, Davis, Angus Ward
• Primary Examiner(s): Lee, John J
• Application Number:
  US13/209,507
• Publication Number:
  US 20110300836A1
• Time in Patent Office: 470 Days
• Field of Search: 455/414.1, 455/3.06, 455/67.11, 455/418, 455/419, 455/552.1, 455/420, 455/3.01, 455/454, 455/414.3, 455/517, 455/556.2, 455/423, 455/456.4, 455/68, 725/39, 725/75
• US Class Current: 455/414.1
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72403 with means for local support of applications that increase the functionality
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72442 for playing music files
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/41407 embedded in a portable device, e.g. video client on a mobile phone, PDA, laptop constructional details of equipment or arrangements specially adapted for portable computer application G06F1/1626; arrangements specially adapted for mobile receivers in broadcast systems H04H20/57
• 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 21/4333 Processing operations in response to a pause request
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6131 involving transmission via a mobile phone network wireless downlink channel access H04W74/006
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8455 involving pointers to the content, e.g. pointers to the I-frames of the video stream
• 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 5/781 on disks or drums
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/85 on discs or drums
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/907 using static stores, e.g. storage tubes or semiconductor memories H04N5/91 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/163 by receiver means only
• 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 9/8205 involving the multiplexing of an additional signal and the colour video signal

Abstract

In an embodiment, a method is provided. The method includes playing a content file with a media player on a cellular telephone. Also, the method includes receiving an interrupt event. Moreover, the method includes saving state of the media player on the cellular telephone in the media player.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

executing a content file on a computing device;

receiving an interrupt event from an operating system on the computing device, the interrupt event indicating receipt of a signal originating from other than user input to the computing device; and

saving state data on the computing device, wherein the state data indicates information about the content file when the interrupt event is received and saving the state data includes saving information regarding an execution point of the file corresponding to a time that the interrupt event is received.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the computing device is one of a telephone, a media playing device, a two-way pager and a personal digital assistant (PDA).

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the signal is one of a telephone call, a message or a notification.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein executing the content file includes executing one of video, audio or image content.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the content file is executed by a media player.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the signal originates from an application other than the media player.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

completing handling of the interrupt event; and

accessing the content file on the computing device in response to completing handling the interrupt event.

8. The method of claim 1 further comprising determining whether to resume prior execution of the content file based on the saved state data.

9. The method of claim 8 further comprising, on determining that the prior execution is to be resumed, resuming execution of the content file at the execution point stored in the saved state data.

10. A system, comprising:

a computing device including a processor and an operating system; and

a local storage device on which instructions are stored, wherein the local storage device is coupled to the processor and the instructions are operable to cause the processor to perform operations comprising;

executing a content file on the computing device;

receiving an interrupt event from the operating system on the computing device, the interrupt event indicating receipt of a signal originating from other than user input to the computing device; and

saving state data indicating information about the content file when the interrupt event is received, wherein saving the state data includes saving information regarding an execution point of the file corresponding to a time that the interrupt event is received.

11. The system of claim 10, further comprising a media player, wherein the media player is configured to execute the content file.

12. The system of claim 10, wherein the device is one of a telephone, a media playing device, a two-way pager and a personal digital assistant (PDA).

13. The system of claim 10, further comprising a set of content files embodied in the local storage device.

14. The system of claim 13, further comprising means for receiving a response to a query from a user.

15. The system of claim 13, further comprising a user input interface coupled to the processor, wherein executing the content file includes presenting one of video, audio or image content to the user on the user input interface.

16. The system of claim 10 wherein the media player is further configured to determine whether to resume prior execution of the content file based on the saved state data.

17. The system of claim 16 wherein the media player is further configured to resume execution of the content file at the execution point stored in the saved state data, on determining that the prior execution is to be resumed.

18. A computer program product tangibly embodied in a non-transitory machine-readable medium for interrupting and resuming a media player on a computing device having an operating system, the product comprising instructions operable to cause one or more data processing apparatus to perform operations comprising:

executing a content file on a computing device;

receiving an interrupt event from an operating system on the computing device, the interrupt event indicating receipt of a signal originating from other than user input to the computing device; and

saving state data on the computing device, wherein the state data indicates information about the content file when the interrupt event is received and saving the state data includes saving information regarding an execution point of the file corresponding to a time that the interrupt event is received.

19. The computer program product of claim 18, wherein the signal is one of a telephone call, a message or a notification.

20. The computer program product of claim 18, wherein the device is one of a telephone, a media playing device, a two-way pager and a personal digital assistant (PDA).

21. The computer program product of claim 18, wherein executing the content file includes executing one of video, audio or image content.

22. The computer program product of claim 18, wherein the content file is executed by the media player.

23. The computer program product of claim 22, wherein the signal originates from an application other than the media player.

24. The computer program product of claim 18, wherein the operations further comprise:

completing handling of the interrupt event; and

accessing the content file on the telephone in response to completing handling the interrupt event.

25. The computer program product of claim 18, wherein the operations further comprise determining whether to resume prior execution of the content file based on the saved state data.

26. The computer program product of claim 25, wherein the operations further comprise, on determining that the prior execution is to be resumed, resuming execution of the content file at the execution point stored in the saved state data.