Intelligent digital audiovisual reproduction system
AssigneeTouchTunes Music Corporation
InventorsGuy Nathan, Tony Mastronardi
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Abstract
Payment-based audiovisual playback system characterized by comprising a microprocessor unit, primarily including storage means for storing inter alia in digital form the visual and sound information to be used, and associated, through a number of interfaces, with display means for sound playback which provide a multimedia environment. The unit is controlled by a multitask operating system including a library of integrated tools and services in the storage means. The system is also associated, through an interface, with a telecommunications modem and is connectable to an audiovisual information distribution network by a telecommunications modem and telecommunications links, the telecommunications functions also being managed by the multitask operating system.
Claims20
A method of operating a jukebox device configured to at least play songs selected by a user, the jukebox device comprising a communications system connectable to a server to receive at least songs therefrom and a non-transitory storage medium configured to maintain at least a database of songs thereon, the method comprising:
- receiving, via a touch-screen display, touch-based input from a user;
- in connection with a multitasking operating system running on the jukebox device:
- associating a task with at least one respective hardware peripheral, and
- assigning a first priority level to a display task and a second priority level to an audio task;
- and
- during operation of the jukebox device, storing data to a system operating status file on the transitory storage medium,
- wherein the data stored in the system operating status file is sufficient to allow the multitasking operating system to return to a specified state in case of an interruption caused by a fault.
A method of operating a jukebox device configured to at least play songs selected by a user, the jukebox device comprising a communications system connectable to a server to receive at least songs therefrom and a non-transitory storage medium configured to maintain at least a database of songs thereon, the method comprising:
- in connection with a multitasking operating system running on the jukebox device:
- associating a task with at least one respective hardware peripheral, and
- assigning a first priority level to a display task and a second priority level to an audio task;
- and
- during operation of the jukebox device, storing data to a system operating status file on the transitory storage medium, wherein the data stored in the system operating status file is sufficient to allow the multitasking operating system to return to a specified state in case of an interruption caused by a fault;
- and
- following an interruption caused by a fault, returning the multitasking operating system to the specified state.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.