Method for displaying menu based on service environment analysis in content execution apparatus

• US 20090150782A1
• Filed: 12/04/2008
• Published: 06/11/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 12/06/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: SK Planet Co., Ltd. (SK Telecom Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Dreamer
• Inventors: Baek, Wonjang, Lee, Seong Baek, Kim, John
• Granted Patent: US 10,332,566 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/719
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2220/2541 Blu-ray discs; Blue laser DVR discs
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2220/2562 DVDs [digital versatile discs]; Digital video discs; MMCDs; HDCDs
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2220/2579 HD-DVDs [high definition DVDs]; AODs [advanced optical discs]
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/34 Indicating arrangements indicating means incorporated in magazine or cassette G11B23/046 and G11B23/0875; indicating measured values in general G01D

Abstract

A method for displaying a menu based on a service environment analysis in a content execution apparatus is disclosed. In accordance with the method for displaying the menu based on the service environment analysis in the content execution apparatus of the present invention, a menu is displayed according to a menu information extracted from a storage media, wherein services available to a user from a content execution apparatus is determined and the menu information is updated according to the availability of services.

Claims

1. A method for displaying a menu based on a service environment analysis in a content execution apparatus, the method comprising steps of:

(a) extracting a menu information from a storage media;

(b) determining whether services associated with the menu information extracted from the storage media are available;

(c) updating the menu information when at least one of the services are unavailable; and

(d) displaying the menu according to the updated menu information.

2. The method in accordance with claim 1, the storage media includes a disk storage media, and

wherein the step (a) includes reading the menu information from the disk storage media.

3. The method in accordance with claim 2, wherein the disk storage media stores the menu information therein, and the menu information is stored in the disk storage media to comply with one of a blu-ray specification, a HD-DVD specification and a DVD specification.

4. The method in accordance with claim 1, wherein the storage media includes a non-volatile storage media, and

wherein the step (a) includes reading the menu information from the non-volatile storage media.

5. The method in accordance with claim 4, wherein the non-volatile storage media includes one of a flash memory and ROM.

6. The method in accordance with claim 1, wherein the step (b) comprises:

(b-1) determining whether the services are available from the content execution apparatus; and

(b-2) determining whether the services are available from a service data providing apparatus.

7. The method in accordance with claim 6, wherein the step (b) comprises (b-3) determining whether a network access is available.

8. The method in accordance with claim 1, wherein the step (b) is carried out periodically.

9. The method in accordance with claim 1, wherein the menu information is updated in a manner that the menu displayed in the step (d) corresponds to the services determined to be available in the step (b).