Audio visual player apparatus and system and method of content distribution using the same

• US 9,026,033 B2
• Filed: 02/13/2012
• Issued: 05/05/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 10/01/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: SanDisk Technologies LLC (Western Digital Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Sandisk Technologies Incorporated (Western Digital Corporation)
• Inventors: Khedouri, Robert, Axelrod, Jonathan, Price, Harold, Becker, John, Edinger, Mark, Kraul, Douglas R.
• Primary Examiner(s): Jamal, Alexander
• Application Number:
  US13/371,936
• Publication Number:
  US 20120139938A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,177 Days
• Field of Search: 379/110.01, 455/344, 455 301- 306, 705/27.2, 715/748, 715/751
• US Class Current: 455/3.01
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/134 Distributed indices
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/1834 implemented based on peer-to-peer networks, e.g. gnutella p2p communication protocols H04L67/104
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/635 Filtering based on additional data, e.g. user or group profiles
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/639 using playlists
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/034 on discs G11B27/036, G11B27/038 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2463/101 applying security measures for digital rights management data processing systems or methods, specially adapted for commerce, e.g. marketing, shopping, billing, auctions or e-commerce G06Q30/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0428 wherein the data content is protected, e.g. by encrypting or encapsulating the payload
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/10 for controlling access to devices or network resources
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2223 being a public access point, e.g. for downloading to or uploading from clients arrangements specially adapted to plural spots in a confined site in broadcast systems H04H20/63
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/41407 embedded in a portable device, e.g. video client on a mobile phone, PDA, laptop constructional details of equipment or arrangements specially adapted for portable computer application G06F1/1626; arrangements specially adapted for mobile receivers in broadcast systems H04H20/57
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47202 for requesting content on demand, e.g. video on demand
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4788 communicating with other users, e.g. chatting arrangements for providing for computer conferences, e.g. chat rooms, to substation in data switching networks H04L12/1813; distributed application using peer-to-peer [P2P] networks H04L67/104
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6125 involving transmission via Internet transmission by internet of broadcast information H04H60/82
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/17318 Direct or substantially direct transmission and handling of requests

Abstract

A method and system are provided for delivering digital content. A first catalogued list of content is delivered from a user operated device to a media storage device, and attributes of the first catalogued list are determined. A second catalogued list of content is delivered from a content provider to the media storage device. The first catalogued list is modified based upon the second catalogued list and the attributes, and the modified first catalogued list is delivered to the user operated device. Content from the modified first catalogued list is delivered to the user operated device for storage and subsequent playback.

Claims

1. A wireless portable device comprising:

a wireless transceiver through which to communicate with a network;

a memory; and

a processor in communication with the wireless transceiver and the memory, wherein the processor is operative to;

detect an available connection to the network; and

after a connection to the network is available, receive a file from a server in the network specifying content to be displayed at a particular location on a user interface of the wireless portable device, wherein the content to be displayed at the particular location is specified by an administrator of the server and not by the user of the wireless portable device;

wherein the file further specifies a condition under which the content is to be displayed at the particular location on the user interface of the wireless portable device;

wherein the file further specifies actions to be taken when a user selects a particular item displayed on the user interface;

wherein the processor is operative to dynamically adjust the user interface of the wireless portable device without performing a reboot of the wireless portable device; and

wherein the wireless portable device is configured to operate as a standalone device that can communicate with the network without use of a desktop or laptop computer.

2. The wireless portable device of claim 1, wherein the content specified by the file is text and/or graphics.

3. The wireless portable device of claim 1, wherein the file is associated with an update file that updates a list of digital content items stored on the wireless portable device, and wherein the file specifies how at least a portion of new data in the update file is to be displayed on the wireless portable device.

4. The wireless portable device of claim 3, wherein the digital content items comprises one or more of the following:

audio files, video files, auto-executable files, text files, and software files.

5. The wireless portable device of claim 1, wherein the file further specifies which locations on the user interface that are to remain rigid.