System, method and article of manufacture for remote control and navigation of local content

• US 7,711,795 B2
• Filed: 03/31/2006
• Issued: 05/04/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 01/20/2000
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Rovi Technologies Corporation (Adeia Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Sonic Solutions (Adeia Inc.)
• Inventors: Collart, Todd R., Lamkin, Allan B., Getsin, Evgeniy M., Lewis, Michael J.
• Primary Examiner(s): Lim, Krisna
• Application Number:
  US11/278,403
• Publication Number:
  US 20060195600A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,495 Days
• Field of Search: 709/217, 709/219, 715/315, 715/500.1, 719/704, 719/738
• US Class Current: 709/217
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/10 Protecting distributed programs or content, e.g. vending or licensing of copyrighted material protection in video systems or pay television H04N7/16 ; Digital rights management [DRM]
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/11 by using information not detectable on the record carrier
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/764 at the destination reformatting of additional data in video clients H04N21/4355
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/21 Server components or server architectures
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/23 Processing of content or additional data; Elementary server operations; Server middleware
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4227 Providing Remote input by a user located remotely from the client device, e.g. at work
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42646 for reading from or writing on a non-volatile solid state storage medium, e.g. DVD, CD-ROM
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6125 involving transmission via Internet transmission by internet of broadcast information H04H60/82
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6334 for authorisation, e.g. by transmitting a key wireless communications network key management H04W12/04; wireless communications network access security H04W12/08
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/643 Communication protocols network streaming protocols, e.g. real-time transport protocol [RTP] or real-time control protocol [RTCP], H04L65/65
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6543 for forcing some client operations, e.g. recording remote booting in general G06F9/4416

Abstract

A system, method and article of manufacture are provided for use in playing back content. Some embodiments provide a method for use in content playback by accessing an embedded object embedded within object oriented programming stored on a portable storage media where the embedded object controls playback of content, communicating a navigation command from the embedded object within the object oriented programming to the content, altering a register in response to the navigation command communicated, and controlling the playback of the content in response to the altering of the register.

Claims

1. A method that controls content playback, comprising:

accessing an embedded object embedded within object oriented programming stored on a portable storage media where the embedded object controls playback of content;

communicating a navigation command from the embedded object within the object oriented programming to the content;

altering a register in response to the navigation command communicated; and

controlling the playback of the content in response to the altering of the register.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the register is maintained by the content.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the register is maintained by a player playing back the content.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the register contains content status.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the register contains a status of a player playing back the content.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the object oriented programming is Java.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the object oriented programming is markup language.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

communicating a request to access locked remote content;

receiving authorization to access the locked remote content and initiating the communicating of the navigation command in response to the receiving authorization to alter the register indicating access to the locked remote content; and

the controlling the playback of the content comprises remotely accessing the locked remote content in response to the altering of the register.

9. The method of claim 8, further comprising:

extracting through the embedded object information from a Burst Cut Area of the portable storage media; and

incorporating through the embedded object the information into the request to access the locked content.

10. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

communicating a request to a remote server to access locked content stored on the portable storage media;

receiving authorization to access the locked content; and

initiating the communicating of the navigation command in response to the receiving the authorization to alter the register indicating access to the locked content such that the controlling the playback of the content comprises playing back the locked content.

11. The method of claim 10, further comprising:

extracting through the embedded object information from a Burst Cut Area of the portable storage media; and

incorporating through the embedded object the information into the request to access the locked content.

12. A method that affects a playback of content, comprising:

accessing an embedded object embedded within object oriented programming stored on a portable storage media where the embedded object affects playback of content;

communicating a navigation command from the content to the embedded object within the object oriented programming;

altering through the object oriented programming a register in response to the navigation command; and

affecting the playback of the content in response to the altering of the register.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the register is maintained by the content.

14. The method of claim 12, wherein the register is maintained by a player playing back the content.

15. The method of claim 12, wherein the register contains content status.

16. The method of claim 12, wherein the register contains a status of a player playing back the content.

17. The method of claim 12, wherein the object oriented programming is Java.

18. The method of claim 12, wherein the object oriented programming is markup language.

19. A computer program embodied on a storage device to control playback of content, comprising:

machine executable code to access an embedded object embedded within object oriented programming stored on a portable storage media where the embedded object controls playback of content;

machine executable code to communicate a navigation command from the embedded object within the object oriented programming to the content;

machine executable code to alter a register in response to the navigation command communicated to the content; and

machine executable code to control the playback of the content in response to the altering of the register.

20. A computer program embodied on a storage device for affecting playback of content, comprising:

machine executable code to access an embedded object embedded within object oriented programming stored on a portable storage media where the embedded object affects playback of content;

machine executable code to communicate a navigation command from the content to the embedded object within the object oriented programming;

machine executable code to alter through the object oriented programming a register in response to the navigation command; and

machine executable code to affect the playback of the content in response to the altering of the register.

21. A portable storage device, comprising:

content to be playback through a content playback device; and

machine executable code of object oriented programming comprising an embedded object to control the playback of the content through the content playback device wherein the embedded object communicates a navigation command from the embedded object within the object oriented programming to the content affecting a register used in the controlling of the playback of the content.

22. A portable storage device, comprising:

content to be playback through a content playback device; and

a machine executable code of object oriented programming comprising an embedded to affect the playback of the content through the content playback device wherein a navigation command is communicated from the content to the embedded object within the object oriented programming such that the embedded object alters a register that affects control of the playback of the content in response to the navigation command.