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:
- at least one first multimedia content reproduction apparatus comprising:
- a communication interface, and
- processing means in communication with said communication interface,
- a removable memory device, which can contain at least a plurality of multimedia contents and can be connected, by means of said communication interface, to at least said first reproduction apparatus and preferably to at least one second multimedia content reproduction apparatus,
- wherein said first reproduction apparatus comprises processing means configured for
- a. reproducing or reading, by means of said communication interface, at least one of said multimedia contents that are present in said removable memory device;
- b. generating at least one choice datum defining at least one set of favourite 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 favourite 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 means that can contain a plurality of multimedia contents,
- a communication interface that can be put in communication with at least one reproduction apparatus, and
- processing means in communication with said memory means and said communication interface,
- wherein said processing means are configured for
- a. generating at least one choice datum defining at least one set of favourite multimedia contents;
- b. writing, on the basis of said at least one choice datum, at least one metadatum directly into said memory means of said removable memory device, wherein said metadatum is associated with at least one of said favourite multimedia contents, and wherein said metadatum defines the associated content as belonging to at least one set of multimedia contents,
- c. making available for reading and reproduction, via said communication interface, all the multimedia contents that are present in said memory means or only said at least one set of multimedia contents, defined by said metadatum as belonging to said set.
A method for fruition of multimedia contents, comprising:
- a) a choice phase, wherein at least one choice datum defining at least one set of favourite multimedia contents is generated through processing means;
- b) a writing phase, wherein, on the basis of said at least one choice datum, at least one metadatum is directly written into memory means of a removable memory device, wherein said metadatum is associated with at least one of said favourite 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 means 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.