Communication device and method between an audiovisual information playback system and an electronic game machine
AssigneeTouchTunes Music Corporation
InventorsGuy Nathan, Tony Mastronardi, Alain Choquet
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Abstract
A communication device between an audiovisual information playback system and at least one electronic game machine, each game machine including a viewing means for interacting with the user and a means of payment, wherein each electronic game machine is connected to the playback system via a network interface and an associated network. The device also includes specific managing means for managing means of payment, a viewing means and an interactive means to enable the selection and payment of at least one selection stored on the playback system, the managing means being triggered by activation of the electronic game machine.
Claims11
A communications device for providing communications between an information playback system and at least one electronic game machine, each electronic game machine comprising a viewing means, a means for interacting with a user and a means of payment, wherein each electronic game machine is connected to the playback system via a network interface and associated LAN, the communications device comprising:
- means for managing the means of payment;
- means for managing the viewing means;
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- interactive means to enable, on the electronic game machine, selection of and payment for at least one selection stored on the playback system, said selection being intended to be played back on the playback system, the means for managing the payment means and the means for managing the viewing means and the interactive means being triggered by activation means of the electronic game machine.
A method of communicating between an audiovisual information playback system and at least one electronic game machine, each said electronic game machine comprising a viewing means, a means for interacting with a user, and a means of payment, the playback system being connected to each electronic game machine via a LAN, the method comprising:
- activating management means of an electronic game machine to change an original operating mode of the electronic game machine implementing the following steps:
- setting up a connection between the playback system and the electronic game machine;
- transferring graphic dialog screens from the playback system to the electronic game machine to prompt the user to make a musical selection or to trigger a payment step;
- making the musical selection;
- paying for the musical selection made;
- playing back, by means of the playback system, the selection made.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.