Removable medium with bookmark

• US 9,236,080 B2
• Filed: 12/21/2004
• Issued: 01/12/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 01/15/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Western Digital Israel Limited (Western Digital Corporation)
• Original Assignee: SanDisk IL Ltd. (Western Digital Corporation)
• Inventors: Teicher, Mordechai
• Primary Examiner(s): Dinh, Tan X
• Application Number:
  US11/016,777
• Publication Number:
  US 20050157600A1
• Time in Patent Office: 4,039 Days
• Field of Search: 369/30.03, 369/30.04, 369/30.05, 369/30.06, 369/30.07, 369/30.08, 369/30.09, 369/47.1, 369/53.2, 369/53.41, 386/125, 386/126, 386/238, 386/248, 386/252, 386/262, 710/5, 710/13, 710/7, 700/94
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2220/20 Disc-shaped record carriers
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2220/215 Recordable discs
• 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 23/30 with provision for auxiliary signals
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/102 Programmed access in sequence to addressed parts of tracks of operating record carriers access by moving the head G11B3/08, G11B5/54, G11B7/085, G11B21/022; by moving the record carrier G11B15/005, G11B17/005, by driving of both record carrier and head G11B15/1816
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/105 of operating discs
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/322 used signal is digitally coded
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/329 on a disc [VTOC]
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 7/00736 Auxiliary data, e.g. lead-in, lead-out, Power Calibration Area [PCA], Burst Cutting Area [BCA], control information sector headers or adresses in prepits G11B7/00745; address data in track wobble G11B7/24082

Abstract

A storage medium includes a content storage portion for storing content and a bookmark storage portion for storing a bookmark value. An associated player for playing the content includes a user interface for presenting the content to a user, a processor for presenting the content to the user interface starting at a starting segment of the content in accordance with the bookmark value, and a medium interface for reversibly operationally connecting the player to the storage medium to deliver the content and the bookmark value to the processor. The player plays the content until an ending segment is reached, and sets the bookmark value in accordance with the ending segment, so that subsequent playing, on the same player or on a different player, starts in accordance with the ending segment. The starting segment is selected either by the player or by the storage medium.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

a MultiMedia card including a flash memory, the MultiMedia card including an interface configured to connect to and disconnect from a host for playing content stored in the flash memory, the flash memory comprising;

(a) a content storage portion for storing the content in the flash memory;

(b) a bookmark storage portion for storing, in the flash memory, a bookmark value that indicates a current location within the content upon interruption of playing of the content; and

(c) a code storage portion for storing a player program that is loaded from the flash memory of the MultiMedia card and executed by the host when the flash memory is connected to the host, wherein the player program controls the host to play the content, including resuming playing of the content in accordance with said bookmark value.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein said bookmark value is stored in said bookmark storage portion only by the host.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein said content storage portion is recordable.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein said content storage portion is rewritable.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein said bookmark storage portion is rewritable.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein said bookmark storage portion is recordable.

7. A system comprising:

a USB flash drive including a flash memory having computer-readable code embodied in said flash memory, the USB flash drive including an interface configured to connect to and disconnect from a host for playing content stored in the flash memory, said flash memory comprising;

(a) content stored in said flash memory;

(b) a bookmark value of said content stored in said flash memory, wherein the bookmark value indicates a current location within the content upon interruption of playing of the content; and

(c) a player program stored in said flash memory and loaded from said flash memory of said USB flash drive and executed by a host for controlling the host to play the content, including resuming playing of said content in accordance with said bookmark value.