Reconfigurable audiovisual previewing system and method of operation
AssigneePRN Corporation
InventorsMichael Stern, William L. Mince, Daniel E. Kyte
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Abstract
A reconfigurable audiovisual previewing system includes a user interface module, a media communications module, and a plurality of application programs. One of the plurality of application programs is selected and configures the interface module to identify the product of interest. The selected application program also configures the media communications module to transmit, in response to the product's identification, a request for related product information stored in said multimedia server, and to receive and play the product information retrieved from said multimedia file server in response to said transmitted request.
Claims13
A reconfigurable audiovisual previewing system comprising:
- a user interface module configured to identify a product of interest and to communicate first product information related to the product of interest and second product information of a second product related to the product of interest to a customer;
- a media communications module having a multimedia file player, and coupled to the user interface module and to a multimedia server that creates and stores a multimedia file only for selected end clients containing the first and second product information, the media communications module configured to:
- transmit to the multimedia server, in response to the product identification, a request for the multimedia file,
- receive the multimedia file from the multimedia file server, and
- play the multimedia file;
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- one or more application programs that, when executed, configure the reconfigurable audiovisual previewing system.
A method of operating a reconfigurable audiovisual previewing system comprising the steps of:
- loading one or more application programs;
- executing the one or more application programs to configure the reconfigurable audiovisual previewing system;
- identifying a product of interest;
- transmitting, in response to the product identification, a request for a multimedia file to a multimedia server, the multimedia file containing, only for selected end clients, first product information related to the product of interest and second product information of a second product related to the product of interest;
- receiving the multimedia file from the multimedia file server;
- playing the multimedia file for a customer using a multimedia player.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.