System, device and method for selecting and making available for reading and reproducing multimedia contents
AssigneeSaronikos Trading and Services, Unipessoal LDA
InventorRobert James
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Abstract
A system, a removable memory device and a method for fruition of multimedia contents are provided, wherein the user can instantly mark a multimedia content as favourite by pressing a button while that content is in reproduction. The archive containing the favourite multimedia contents, along with non-favourite contents, is updated immediately, so that said archive, which is stored in a removable memory device, can be moved from one reproduction apparatus to another. One variant of the invention allows also older-generation reproduction apparatuses, which cannot handle playlists and metadata, to reproduce favourite multimedia contents while excluding those that have not been marked as such.
Claims14
A system for fruition of multimedia contents, comprising:
- a first multimedia content reproduction apparatus comprising:
- a communication interface, and
- a processor in communication with said communication interface,
- a removable memory device containing a plurality of multimedia contents and which can be connected, by means of said communication interface, to said first multimedia content reproduction apparatus and to at least one second multimedia content reproduction apparatus,
- wherein said first multimedia content reproduction apparatus further comprises said processor being separate from said removable memory device and being configured for:
- a. reproducing or reading, by means of said communication interface, said plurality of multimedia contents that are present in said removable memory device;
- b. generating at least one choice datum defining at least one set of favorite multimedia contents selected from said plurality of multimedia contents;
- c. writing, on the basis of said at least one choice datum, at least one metadatum directly into said removable memory device, wherein said metadatum is associated with at least one of said favorite multimedia contents, and wherein said metadatum defines the associated content as belonging to at least one set of multimedia contents;
- d. making available for reading and reproduction, by means of said communication interface, all the multimedia contents that are present in said removable memory device or only said at least one set of multimedia contents, defined by said metadatum as belonging to said set.
A removable memory device for storing a plurality of multimedia contents, comprising:
- memory that can contain a plurality of multimedia contents,
- a communication interface that can be put in communication with at least one reproduction apparatus, and
- a processor in communication with said memory and said communication interface,
- wherein said processor is configured for
- a. generating at least one choice datum defining at least one set of favorite multimedia contents;
- b. writing, on the basis of said at least one choice datum, at least one metadatum directly into said memory of said removable memory device, wherein said metadatum is associated with, and contained in, at least one of said plurality of multimedia contents that is not a favorite multimedia contents, wherein said at least one metadatum is an extension of a filename of said at least one multimedia contents, said extension selected such that certain players will not access files having said extension,
- c. making available for reading and reproduction, via said communication interface, all the multimedia contents that are present in said memory.
A method for fruition of multimedia contents, comprising:
- a) a choice phase, wherein at least one choice datum defining at least one set of favorite multimedia contents is generated through a processor located on a first multimedia content reproduction apparatus;
- b) a writing phase, wherein, on the basis of said at least one choice datum, at least one metadatum is directly written into memory of a removable memory device by the processor located on the first multimedia content reproduction apparatus, the processor being separate from the removable memory device, and wherein said metadatum is associated with, and contained in, at least one of said favorite multimedia contents, and wherein said metadatum defines the associated content as belonging to at least one set of multimedia contents,
- c) a content offering phase, wherein all the multimedia contents that are present in said memory of said removable memory device or only said at least one set of multimedia contents defined by said metadatum as belonging to said set are made available for reading and reproduction by means of communication interface.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.