System for downloading digital content published in a media channel
AssigneeCreative Technology Ltd
InventorsSeh Eing Lim, Guan Chuan Choo
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Abstract
There is provided a system for downloading digital content to a portable media player, the digital content being published in a media channel by a content creator. The system may reside on a server accessible via the Internet. The system may comprise: a data receiver module to receive the digital content from the media channel via a communication medium; a conversion module to convert the received digital content to at least one format for consumption by the player; and a download module to copy the at least one file to the portable media player. The system may further comprise a player detection module to detect file formats compatible with the portable media player. A corresponding method is also disclosed.
Claims10
A method for downloading video related digital content to a portable media player which is one of video enabled and non-video enabled, the video related digital content being published in a media channel by a content creator, the method comprising:
- receiving the video related digital content from the media channel via a communication medium;
- building a list of media channels for transfer to the portable media player;
- obtaining information from the portable media player for determining storage location of the video related digital content on the portable media player;
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- downloading the video related digital content to the portable media player;
- wherein the video related digital content is consumed by the portable media player in the same order that the video related digital content is published in the media channel by the content creator,
- wherein when the video related digital content is downloaded to a non-video enabled portable media player, the video related digital content is able to be consumed in the same order that the video related digital content is published, except only with audio and without any images,
- wherein the video related digital content is associable with metadata and the method further comprises checking metadata of the video related digital content to determine order of consumption of the video related digital content,
- wherein checking metadata of the video related digital content comprises transcoding the video related digital content into a format that preserves order of consumption and enables the portable media player to recognize and consume the video related digital data, and
- wherein downloading, into the portable media player, of video related digital content incapable of being transcoded and consumed by the portable media player is impeded.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.