Portable content container displaying A/V files in response to a command received from a consumer device
AssigneeWestern Digital Technologies, Inc.
InventorLambertus Hesselink
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Abstract
A portable content container is disclosed comprising a decoder for decoding an A/V file into an A/V stream. File directory information identifying one or more A/V files is transmitted to a consumer device. A display command is received from the consumer device to display a selected one of the A/V files on a display device. The selected A/V file is decoded into an A/V stream transmitted to the display device in response to the display command. In an embodiment, the portable content container further comprises local memory for storing A/V files.
Claims18
A storage device comprising:
- a first interface operable to communicate with a consumer device;
- a second interface operable to transmit a media stream to a display device;
- a storage medium configured to store one or more media files;
- and
- control circuitry configured to:
- transmit information identifying the one or more media files to the consumer device over the first interface;
- receive a playback command over the first interface from the consumer device to play a selected media file of the one or more media files on the display device;
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- in response to the playback command, decode the selected media file into a media stream and transmit the media stream over the second interface to the display device, wherein the media stream bypasses the consumer device.
A method for securely playing media from a storage device, the method comprising:
- transmitting information identifying one or more media files stored by the storage device to a consumer device over a first interface;
- receiving a playback command over the first interface from the consumer device to play a selected media file of the one or more media files on a display device, the display device connected to the storage device via a second interface;
- and
- in response to the playback command, decoding the selected media file into a media stream and transmitting the media stream over the second interface to the display device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.