System and Method for Request, Delivery and Use of Multimedia Files for Audiovisual Entertainment
AssigneesSony Corporation, Sony Electronics Inc.
InventorMark Champion
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Abstract
A personal computer connected to the Internet can receive and store audio and audiovisual data or programming from the Internet. This audio and audiovisual programming can be provided by the computer over a digital connection to speakers and/or a monitor located away from the computer at a location convenient for a user. A remote control unit allows the user to send signals back over the digital connection to the computer to control the computer to provide the audio or audiovisual programming that the user desires over the digital connection to the speakers and/or monitor located where the user is. The computer may send a listing of the available programming to the remote control unit from which the user can make selections.
Claims23
A system for managing audio and audiovisual programming comprising:
- a transceiver for making a digital connection between at least one speaker and an audio server over which said audio server provides an audio signal to said at least one speaker;
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- a remote control unit, wherein said remote control unit controls output of said audio signal from said audio server to said at least one speaker;
- wherein said transceiver communicates with said remote control unit, said remote control unit communicating with said transceiver and with said audio server over said same digital connection between said at least one speaker and said audio server.
A method for managing audio and audiovisual programming comprising:
- making a digital connection between at least one speaker and an audio server over which said audio server provides an audio signal to said at least one speaker;
- and
- controlling, with a remote control unit, output of said audio signal from said audio server to said at least one speaker;
- wherein said transceiver communicates with said remote control unit, said remote control unit communicating with said transceiver and with said audio server over said same digital connection between said at least one speaker and said audio server.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.