System and methodology for utilizing a portable media player

摘要

A low-cost portable digital video player receives proprietary compressed data from a source such as a personal video recorder (PVR), and displays the data on an integral display. A rewritable non-volatile memory of the player stores the data and a media decoder of the player transforms and decompresses the data. According to one embodiment the decoder transforms the data to a non-proprietary format, prior to storing the data. According to a second embodiment, the memory stores the data in the proprietary format, and decoder transforms and decompresses the data in response to an instruction from a user input device, and transfers the decoded data to a display. A cradle for the player provides communications to the PVR, a power supply and optionally further storage capacity.

主权项

1. A multimedia device comprising:
one or more computer processors configured to execute software instructions; one or more storage devices storing software instructions configured for execution by the one or more computer processors in order to cause the multimedia device to:
transmit a request for multimedia content stored in a proprietary format on a remote storage device, wherein the stored multimedia content in the proprietary format is not intended for playback on the multimedia device; andreceive transformed multimedia content in a format playable on the multimedia device, wherein the transformed multimedia content is generated by applying one or more decoding algorithms on the stored multimedia content in the proprietary format.