Methods and systems for use in customizing displayed content associated with a portable storage medium

A method of playing back content to be played back in association with a portable storage medium, the method comprising:

• receiving a command to customize display parameters;
• accessing, through a processor a first portable storage medium;
• identifying one or more customizable display parameters, defined on the first portable storage medium, that can be applied while displaying a first content associated with the first portable storage medium;
• displaying at least one of the one or more customizable display parameter, where the customizable display parameters when applied define an appearance of how content from the first portable storage medium is to be displayed when the content from the first portable storage medium is displayed;
• detecting a designation of a first definition for a first customizable display parameter, of the displayed at least one of the one or more customizable display parameter, alter a state of the first customizable display parameter from a first state to a second state;
• storing the first definition, in response to detecting the designation of the first definition altering the state of the first customizable display parameter to the second state;
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• displaying, through the processor, the first content in association with the first portable storage medium while applying the first definition of the first customizable display parameter according to the second state.

A method of rendering content, comprising:

• receiving, over a network, an identification of content, recorded on a portable storage medium being directly accessed by a remote playback device, to be played back by the remote playback device;
• identifying, through a processor and according to the identification of the content, one or more display parameters associated with the content, where the one or more display parameters are customizable to alter the playing back of the content at the remote playback device and dictating an appearance and organization of at least portions of the content from the portable storage medium when the content from the portable storage medium is displayed;
• identifying, through the processor, one or more associated definitions for each of the one or more display parameters, where the associated definitions dictate at least in part how the content is played back relative to the associated one or more display parameters;
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• communicating, over the network, the one or more definitions to the remote playback device to be applied by the playback device, in association with corresponding one or more display parameters specified at the remote playback device, in altering the playback of the content at the remote playback device from a playback of the content without the one or more definitions.

A computer readable portable storage medium having recorded thereon code that in part controls the playback of content to be played back in association with the computer readable portable storage medium, the code when implemented by an appropriately configured processor accessing the code from the computer readable portable storage medium causes the processor to implement the following steps:

• accessing content to be played back by a playback device in association with a computer readable portable storage medium being directly accessed by the playback device;
• identifying a plurality of display parameters, defined on the computer readable portable storage medium, associated with the content that dictate at least in part how the content is displayed, where at least some of the display parameters dictate an appearance and organization of at least portions of the content from the portable storage medium when the content from the portable storage medium is displayed;
• identifying, for each of the identified plurality of display parameters, one or more associated parameter definitions, including a first default parameter definition associated with a first display parameter;
• determining whether a customized parameter definition associated with the first display parameter is specified, on a separate computer readable medium accessible by the playback device, to be utilized in displaying the content;
• playing back the content while applying the customized parameter definition for the first display parameter in place of the first default parameter definition when the customized parameter definition is specified;
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• playing back the content applying the first default parameter definition defined on the computer readable portable storage medium when the customized parameter definition is not defined.