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Device and process for remote management of a network of audiovisual information reproduction systems

AssigneeTouch Tunes Music Corporation

InventorsTony Mastronardi, Goy Nathan, Hugues Clement

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Abstract

Management device for a network of audiovisual information reproduction systems or jukeboxes, including a database with a plurality of sets of arrays, each array containing grouped information either about the composition of a jukebox, or the use of the jukebox, or the payment of fees. The database is managed by a computer server connected with the audiovisual information reproduction systems to receive messages sent by each audiovisual information reproduction device and containing information necessary to update determined sets of arrays in the database, and update data or the program for each audiovisual information reproduction device with information stored in at least one set of arrays in the database and transmitted in this message.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A server device of a digital audiovisual distribution system, the digital audiovisual distribution system comprising a plurality of digital jukebox devices, the server device and the digital jukebox devices being connected to the digital audiovisual distribution system via respective network connections, the server device comprising:

a module involved in managing the digital jukebox devices;
and
at least one processor configured at least to:
receive management data related to hardware, software, and/or firmware components of the digital jukebox devices, the management data having been generated at the respective digital jukebox devices;
process the received management data from the digital jukebox devices by identifying which digital jukebox device(s) the received management data corresponds to, updating the module, and locating update instructions for updating data in the identified digital jukebox device(s);
and
transmit the located update instructions to the identified digital jukebox device(s) over the network in response to the processing.

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Facts

Application: 13/593,831Filed 24 Aug 2012 · continuation
Priority: FR 00 0593810 May 2000
Published: US 2012/0323652 A120 Dec 2012
Granted: 18 Feb 2014
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification30 codes

G06F 16/22
Of structured data, e.g. relational data: indexing; Data structures therefor; Storage structures
G06F 16/40
Information retrieval; Database structures therefor; File system structures therefor: of multimedia data, e.g. slideshows comprising image and…
G06F 16/48
Of multimedia data, e.g. slideshows comprising image and additional audio data: retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not…
G06F 16/60
Information retrieval; Database structures therefor; File system structures therefor: of audio data

Family

Application09/598,170Parent of this continuation · filed 21 Jun 2000
Application10/419,787Parent of this continuation · filed 22 Apr 2003
Application12/230,254Parent of this continuation · filed 26 Aug 2008
Application13/179,834Parent of this continuation · filed 11 Jul 2011
US 2012/0323652 A1Pre-grant publication · published 20 Dec 2012
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