Method of and system for presenting a document, media player, information carrier and computer program product

• US 20060123095A1
• Filed: 12/01/2003
• Published: 06/08/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 12/11/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. (Koninklijke Philips N.V.)
• Original Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. (Koninklijke Philips N.V.)
• Inventors: Ten Kate, Warner Rudolph Theophile, Clout, Ramon Antoine Wiro
• Application Number:
  US10/538,215
• Publication Number:
  US 20060123095A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/217
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking

Abstract

The invention relates to a method of presenting a document comprising: requesting by a user for the document to be presented (S200); determining if the document is present within a collection comprising those documents that are allowed to be presented to the user (S202); presenting the document to the user if the document is present within the collection (S204).

Claims

1. Method of presenting a document, the document being comprised within a collection of documents that can be presented to a user, the method comprising:

requesting by the user for the document to be presented;

determining if the document is present within a sub-collection of the collection, the sub-collection comprising those documents, of the collection of documents, that are allowed to be presented to the user;

presenting the document to the user if the document is present within the sub-collection.

2. Method according to claim 1, comprising reading the sub-collection from a location.

3. Method according to claim 2, wherein the location is one of an information carrier, an internet site or a broadcast station.

4. Method according to claim 2, comprising:

playing an interactive presentation from the location; and

continuing playing the interactive presentation if the document, that the user requested, is present within the sub-collection comprising those documents that are allowed to be presented to the user.

5. Method according to claim 2, wherein the location comprises a reference to the sub-collection.

10. Computer program product designed to perform the method according to any of the claims 1 to 5.

6. System for presenting a document, the document being comprised within a collection of documents that can be presented to a user, the system comprising

determining means conceived to determine if the document is present within a sub-collection of the collection, the sub-collection comprising those documents, of the collection of documents, that are allowed to be presented to the user;

and

presenting means conceived to present the document, that the user requests to be presented, if the document is present within the sub-collection.

7. System according to claim 6, comprising:

reading means conceived to read the sub-collection from an information carrier; and

playing means conceived to continue playing an interactive presentation if the document, that the user requested, is present within the sub-collection comprising those documents that are allowed to be presented to the user.

8. Media player comprising the system according to claim 6.

9. Information carrier for use in the media player according to claim 8, the information carrier comprising an interactive presentation and a sub-collection comprising those documents that are allowed to be presented to a user.