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US 9,852,218 B1Granted
System and method for distributing media via portable storage
AssigneeJoseph Alan Epstein
InventorJoseph Alan Epstein
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Abstract
A system and method for securely delivering and updating media using portable storage. In one embodiment, field-modifiable storage presents itself to the host system as a read-only standardized media player, where the user adds, replaces, or updates media onto that storage. A further embodiment establishes encrypted streaming from field-modifiable storage directly into the graphics processor of the viewing host, bypassing the general-purpose computing infrastructure.
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A method of displaying media content comprising:
- downloading the media content from a movie source to a media system;
- storing the media content in a flash-based storage in the media system, wherein the flash-based storage is a first storage type associated with a first interface personality;
- providing a hardware communications interface;
- communicating the media content, in part or in whole, over the hardware communications interface, wherein the communicating is performed using a second interface personality associated with a second storage type but not associated with the first storage type, and wherein the second interface personality is that of an optical drive when the media content is coded in optical data format;
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- accessing the media content from the flash-based storage using the first interface personality;
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- outputting the media content over the hardware communications interface using the second interface personality, wherein the second interface personality is enabled when the media content is at least partially stored in the flash-based storage.
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A system of displaying media content comprising:
- a hardware communications interface;
- a flash-based storage coupled to the hardware communications interface and configured to store the media content, wherein the flash-based storage is a first storage type associated with a first interface personality;
- means for communicating the media content, in part or in whole, over the hardware communications interface, wherein the communicating is performed using a second interface personality associated with a second storage type but not associated with the first storage type, wherein the second interface personality is that of an optical drive when the media content is coded in optical data format
- means for accessing the media content from the flash-based storage using the first interface personality;
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- means for outputting the media content over the hardware communications interface using the second interface personality, wherein the second interface personality is enabled when the media content is at least partially stored in the flash-based storage.
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An apparatus comprising:
- a flash-based storage that stores media content, and wherein the flash-based storage is a first storage type that is associated with a first interface personality;
- a hardware communication interface;
- logic that communicates the media content, in part or in whole, over the hardware communications interface using a second interface personality associated with a second storage type but not associated with the first storage type, wherein the second interface personality is that of an optical drive when the media content is coded in optical data format;
- logic that accesses the media content from the flash-based storage using the first interface personality;
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- logic that outputs the media content over the hardware communications interface using the second interface personality, wherein the second interface personality is enabled when the media content is at least partially stored in the flash-based storage.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.