Paging during media loading

• US 6,587,634 B2
• Filed: 02/15/2001
• Issued: 07/01/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 02/15/2001
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Avica Technology Corporation
• Original Assignee: Avica Technology Corporation
• Inventors: Hurst, John T., Maltz, Andrew H., Elswick, William E.
• Primary Examiner(s): BOCCIO, VINCENT F
• Application Number:
  US09/784,948
• Publication Number:
  US 20020164956A1
• Time in Patent Office: 866 Days
• Field of Search: H04/N.591, 386/46, 386/125-126, 455/418, 455/419, 455/420, 340/7.1, 340/7.2
• US Class Current: 386/234
• 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 2220/41 Flat as opposed to hierarchical combination, e.g. library of tapes or discs, CD changer, or groups of record carriers that together store one title
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2220/415 Redundant array of inexpensive disks [RAID] systems
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/002 Programmed access in sequence to a plurality of record carriers or indexed parts, e.g. tracks, thereof, e.g. for editing; transfer of record carriers from magazine G11B15/68, G11B17/10; G11B17/22
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/034 on discs G11B27/036, G11B27/038 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/105 of operating discs
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/36 Monitoring, i.e. supervising the progress of recording or reproducing for digital recording G11B20/00 and s.gr.; for monitoring, testing or measuring of TV recorders of the type covered by H04N5/76 and subgroups, see H04N17/06
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/41265 having a remote control device for bidirectional communication between the remote control device and client device unidirectional remote control device H04N21/42204
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/41415 involving a public display, viewable by several users in a public space outside their home, e.g. movie theatre, information kiosk
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/432 Content retrieval operation from a local storage medium, e.g. hard-disk details of retrieval of video data and associated meta data in video databases G06F16/739
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/43637 involving a wireless protocol, e.g. Bluetooth, RF or wireless LAN [IEEE 802.11] arrangements for wireless networking or broadcasting of information in indoor or near-field type systems H04B10/114
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8543 using a description language, e.g. Multimedia and Hypermedia information coding Expert Group [MHEG], eXtensible Markup Language [XML] information retrieval of semistructured data, the underlying structure being taken into account, e.g. mark-up language structure data G06F16/80

Abstract

Provided are systems and methods for facilitating loading of data from a portable medium into a device. Initially, a portable medium encoded with data is accepted and the data from the portable medium is loaded into a mass storage device. A paging signal is caused to be wirelessly transmitted when a specified portion of such loading has been completed.

Claims

1. A method for facilitating loading of data from a portable medium into a device, said method comprising:

accepting a portable medium encoded with data;

loading the data from the portable medium into a mass storage device; and

causing a paging signal to be wirelessly transmitted when a specified portion of said loading has been completed.

2. A method according to claim 1, wherein the specified portion is specified within the data being loaded.

3. A method according to claim 1, wherein the specified portion is user-selectable.

4. A method according to claim 1, wherein the portable medium includes one of a CD and a DVD.

5. A method according to claim 1, further comprising a step of causing a paging signal to be wirelessly transmitted in an event that a loading error occurs.

6. An apparatus for loading of data from a portable medium, said apparatus comprising:

mass storage means for storing large amounts of data on a nonvolatile basis;

means for accepting a portable medium encoded with data;

means for loading the data from the portable medium into said mass storage means; and

means for causing a paging signal to be wirelessly transmitted when a specified portion of said loading has been completed.

7. An apparatus according to claim 6, wherein the specified portion is specified within the data being loaded.

8. An apparatus according to claim 6, wherein the specified portion is user-selectable.

9. An apparatus according to claim 6, wherein the portable medium includes one of a CD and a DVD.

10. An apparatus according to claim 6, further comprising a means for causing a paging signal to be wirelessly transmitted in an event that a loading error occurs.

11. An apparatus according to claim 6, further comprising means for wirelessly transmitting the paging signal.

12. An apparatus according to claim 6, further comprising a hardware interface means for communicating a signal to a transmitter, the signal instructing the transmitter to send the paging signal.

13. A computer-readable medium storing computer-executable process steps for facilitating loading of data from a portable medium into a device, said process steps comprising steps to:

accept a portable medium encoded with data;

load the data from the portable medium into a mass storage device; and

cause a paging signal to be wirelessly transmitted when a specified portion of said loading has been completed.

14. A computer-readable medium according to claim 13, wherein the specified portion is specified within the data being loaded.

15. A computer-readable medium according to claim 13, wherein the specified portion is user-selectable.

16. A computer-readable medium according to claim 13, wherein the portable medium includes one of a CD and a DVD.

17. A computer-readable medium according to claim 13, wherein said process steps further comprise a step to cause a paging signal to be wirelessly transmitted in an event that a loading error occurs.