Controlling playback of content stored on a portable storage medium
AssigneeSonic Solutions, a California corporation
InventorTodd Collart
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Abstract
A method of playing multimedia content comprising reading, at a local machine, local multimedia content stored on a portable storage medium; and utilizing a control structure stored on the separate storage medium to alter the playback of the local multimedia content stored on the portable storage medium. A method of providing multimedia content comprising the steps of reading, at a local machine, local multimedia content stored on a portable storage medium; and downloading a control structure to control the display of the local multimedia content.
Claims87
A method of playing multimedia content comprising:
- reading, at a local machine, local multimedia content stored on a portable storage medium;
- determining whether a connection to a network is available;
- determining whether a control structure is stored at the local machine on a separate storage medium when the connection to the network is not available;
- and
- utilizing the control structure stored on the separate storage medium to alter the playback of the local multimedia content stored on the portable storage medium when the control structure is stored on the local machine.
A method of providing multimedia content comprising the steps of:
- reading, at a local machine, local multimedia content stored on a portable storage medium;
- determining whether a network connection is available;
- downloading, to the local machine, a first control structure to control the display of the local multimedia content when it is determined that the network connection is available.
A method comprising:
- receiving a request for an indication of whether separate multimedia content is stored on a separate storage medium, the request having been generated in response to reading local multimedia content;
- determining whether a first separate multimedia content is available that is directly associated with the local multimedia content and is a newer version of a portion of the local multimedia content;
- transmitting the first separate multimedia content stored on the separate storage medium when the first separate multimedia content is a newer version of the portion of the local multimedia content;
- and
- transmitting a control structure to control the display of the first separate multimedia content in place of the portion of the local multimedia content.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.