Information delivery display system and information delivery display method

• US 7,277,959 B2
• Filed: 01/04/2005
• Issued: 10/02/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 01/09/2004
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Pioneer Corporation
• Original Assignee: Pioneer Corporation
• Inventors: Miyamoto, Kazuhiro, Mise, Hiroaki, Takanashi, Makoto, Amaya, Toshiyuki
• Primary Examiner(s): Chang; Jungwon
• Application Number:
  US11/028,335
• Publication Number:
  US 20050151756A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,001 Days
• Field of Search: 709/231, 709/219, 345/473, 345/838, 345/475, 345/156, 345/619, 705/16
• US Class Current: 709/231
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04803 Split screen, i.e. subdividing the display area or the window area into separate subareas
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance

Abstract

The file creating processing unit creates at least one material data and at least one control information file to display the material data in a presentation package storage folder corresponding to a presentation pack. When a package creating processing unit receives a delivery designation, the package creating processing unit creates at least one package from all files in the presentation package storage folder to satisfy a predetermined condition and delivers presentation packs in units of packages to an information display device through a data distribution server.

Claims

1. An information delivery display system comprising:

an information creating device including a package creating processing unit that creates at least one package from at least one material data related to at least one program and at least one control information file in a presentation package;

a data distribution server that receives the package created by the package creating processing unit from the information creating device, the data distribution server including a data storage unit that stores the received package, and a presentation package management processing unit that manages packages stored in the data storage unit in units of presentation packages; and

an information display device that includes an information receiving unit that receives packages from the data distribution server, a download processing unit that decompresses at least one package received by the information receiving unit to restore the material data and the control information files in the presentation packages, and a display processing unit that reproduces and displays a program based on the material data and the control information files restored by the download processing unit;

wherein

the presentation package management processing unit further includes

a package identification processing unit that identifies whether a package received from the information creating device is a package having only an updated file,

an updating processing unit that replaces the updated file included in the package that has been determined by the package identification processing unit as a package having only an updated file with a file included in the package stored in the data storage unit, and

a delivery processing unit that transmits all packages related to a requested presentation package to the information display device when a presentation package requested by the information display device is newly delivered and that creates a package having only an updated file and transmits the created package to the information display device when the requested presentation package has been delivered.

2. The information delivery display system according to claim 1, wherein the package creating processing unit creates a package based on at least one of a condition that:

a file having a file size larger than a predetermined threshold value constitutes one package,

files having the same extension representing the attribute of a file constitute one package, and

files registered in the same sub-folder constitute one package.

3. The information delivery display system according to claim 1, wherein when the material data and the control information files in the presentation package are updated, the package creating processing unit creates a package based on the updated material data and control information files.

4. The information delivery display system according to claim 1, wherein the package creating processing unit encodes the created package, and the download processing unit decodes the received package.

5. An information delivery display method employed by an information delivery display system including an information creating device for creating a presentation package related to a program;

and transmitting the created presentation package and an information display device for reproducing and displaying the program based on the presentation package received from the information creating device, the information delivery display method comprising;

creating at least one package from at least one material data related to at least one program and at least one control information file in the presentation package;

transmitting the created package to the information display device through a network; and

reproducing and displaying the program based on the material data and control information files in the received package;

wherein

the transmitting further includes

identifying whether a package received from the information creating device is a package having only an updated file,

replacing the updated file included in the package that has been identified as a package having only an updated file with a file included in a package stored in a data storage unit,

transmitting all packages related to a requested presentation package to the information display device when a presentation package requested by the information display device is newly delivered, and

creating a package having only an updated file and transmitting the created package to the information display device when the requested presentation package has been delivered.