Downloading file reception process

• US 8,495,109 B2
• Filed: 06/20/2011
• Issued: 07/23/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 02/16/2000
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: TouchTunes Music Corporation (The Octave Music Group, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: TouchTunes Music Corporation (The Octave Music Group, Inc.)
• Inventors: Nathan, Guy, Phillips, Ken, Dion, Dominique, Khenfir, Mounir
• Primary Examiner(s): GOFMAN, ALEX N
• Application Number:
  US13/164,258
• Publication Number:
  US 20110246517A1
• Time in Patent Office: 764 Days
• Field of Search: 707/610, 707/916, 707/769, 707/822, 709/219
• US Class Current: 707/822
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/164 File meta data generation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/2282 Tablespace storage structures; Management thereof
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/61 Indexing; Data structures therefor; Storage structures
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/105 of operating discs
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/91 Television signal processing therefor

Abstract

An audiovisual data reproduction device includes a connection to a central server configured to distribute files to the device. Reception functions associated with a respective type of data are provided to the device The device is configured to: select an available storage area of a specified minimum size, open a reception file on the audiovisual data reproduction device in the selected available storage area, receive each packet of a file sent by the server and write each packet sent to the reception file (with each file including information representative of a type of data associated with the file), and for each file received, search for a respective reception function associated with each received file based on the information representative of the type of data associated with the file. Each reception function is configured to process associated received files and update the device according to the data included therein.

Claims

1. An audiovisual data reproduction device, comprising:

a network connection to a central server, the central server being configured to distribute files to the audiovisual data reproduction device;

an operating system configured to manage the audiovisual data reproduction device;

a storage medium; and

a plurality of reception functions, each said reception function being associated with a respective type of data;

wherein the audiovisual data reproduction device is configured to;

select an available storage area of a specified minimum size,

open a reception file on the storage medium of the audiovisual data reproduction device in the selected available storage area,

receive each packet of a file sent by the central server and write each said packet sent by the central server to the reception file, each file sent by the central server including information representative of a type of data associated with the file, and

for each file received, search for a respective reception function to be associated with each received file based at least in part on the information representative of the type of data associated with the file.

wherein each said reception function is configured to process associated files that have been received and update the audiovisual reproduction device according to the data included in the processed received file, and

wherein the minimum size corresponds to a size of the file sent by the central server.

2. The audiovisual data reproduction device of claim 1, wherein the audiovisual data reproduction device is configured to run the search after a last data packet of the received file has been stored.

3. The audiovisual data reproduction device of claim 1, wherein the information representative of the type of data comprises the file extension and/or the name of the file received.

4. The audiovisual data reproduction device of claim 1, wherein when the information representative of the type of data represents a song file, the update causes a song database stored on the audiovisual data reproduction device to be updated by associating the received song file with a graphical file stored in the audiovisual reproduction device.

5. The audiovisual data reproduction device of claim 1, wherein when the information representative of the type of data represents a song file, the update causes the compatibility of the version of the song file received to be checked against a version of the operating system of the audiovisual data reproduction device.

6. The audiovisual data reproduction device of claim 1, wherein when the information representative of the type of data represents a song file, the update causes an update to a list stored on the audiovisual data reproduction device that identifies all songs stored on the audiovisual data reproduction device.

7. The audiovisual data reproduction device of claim 1, wherein when the information representative of the type of data represents a song file, the update causes a song database stored on the audiovisual data reproduction device to be updated by updating a statistics table used in determining a selection frequency of the song corresponding to the file.

8. The audiovisual data reproduction device of claim 1, wherein when the information representative of the type of data represents a song file, the update causes a song database stored on the audiovisual data reproduction device to be updated by updating a purchase table containing the number and name of all the songs purchased for the audiovisual data reproduction device.

9. The audiovisual data reproduction device of claim 1, wherein when the information representative of the type of data represents a song file, the update causes a song database stored on the audiovisual data reproduction device to be updated by updating a counter of songs that are selectable to check that the number of songs that are selectable is not greater than a specified threshold.

10. The audiovisual data reproduction device of claim 1, wherein the audiovisual data reproduction device is configured to store the received file without executing a reception function when said search does not match a received file to a reception function.

11. The audiovisual data reproduction device of claim 1, wherein the types include a song data type, a graphics file data type, a video data type, an advertisement data type, and a survey data type.

12. The audiovisual data reproduction device of claim 1, wherein the central server is configured to send files to the audiovisual data reproduction device in response to a request from the audiovisual data reproduction device.

13. An audiovisual data reproduction system, comprising:

one or more audiovisual data reproduction devices;

a central server configured to selectively distribute files to the one or more audiovisual data reproduction devices; and

a network connection between the central server and the one or more audiovisual data reproduction devices, respectively,

wherein each said audiovisual data reproduction device comprises;

an operating system configured to manage the audiovisual data reproduction device;

a storage medium; and

a plurality of reception functions, each said reception function being associated with a respective type of data;

wherein the audiovisual data reproduction device is configured to;

select an available storage area of a specified minimum size,

open a reception file on the storage medium of the audiovisual data reproduction device in the selected available storage area,

receive each packet of a file sent by the central server and write each said packet sent by the central server to the reception file, each file sent by the central server including information representative of a type of data associated with the file, and

for each file received, search for a respective reception function to be associated with each received file based at least in part on the information representative of the type of data associated with the file,

wherein each said reception function is configured to process associated files that have been received and update the audiovisual reproduction device according to the data included in the processed received file, and

wherein the minimum size corresponds to a size of the file sent by the central server.

14. The audiovisual data reproduction system of claim 13, wherein an individual audiovisual data reproduction device is configured to run the search after a last data packet of the received file has been stored.

15. The audiovisual data reproduction system of claim 13, wherein the information representative of the type of data comprises the file extension and/or the name of the file received.

16. The audiovisual data reproduction system of claim 13, wherein when the information representative of the type of data represents a song file, the associated audiovisual data reproduction device acts so as to cause at least one or more of the following to occur:

a song database stored on the audiovisual data reproduction device is caused to be updated by associating the received song file with a graphical file stored in the audiovisual reproduction device,

the compatibility of the version of the song file received is caused to be checked against a version of the operating system of the audiovisual data reproduction device,

a list stored on the audiovisual data reproduction device that identifies all songs stored on the audiovisual data reproduction device is caused to be updated,

a song database stored on the audiovisual data reproduction device is caused to be updated by updating a statistics table used in determining a selection frequency of the song corresponding to the file,

the song database stored on the audiovisual data reproduction device is caused to be updated by updating a purchase table containing the number and name of all the songs purchased for the audiovisual data reproduction device, and

the song database stored on the audiovisual data reproduction device is caused to be updated by updating a counter of songs that are selectable to check that the number of songs that are selectable is not greater than a specified threshold.

17. The audiovisual data reproduction system of claim 13, wherein the audiovisual data reproduction device is configured to store the received file without executing a reception function when said search does not match a received file to a reception function.

18. The audiovisual data reproduction system of claim 13, wherein the types include a song data type, a graphics file data type, a video data type, an advertisement data type, and a survey data type.

19. The audiovisual data reproduction system of claim 13, wherein the central server is configured to send files to the audiovisual data reproduction device in response to a request from the audiovisual data reproduction device.

20. The audiovisual data reproduction system of claim 13, wherein the central server is configured to verify that the audiovisual data reproduction device to which a file is to be sent has rights in the file.