Method and user interface for downloading audio and video content filters to a media player

摘要

A client server arrangement for downloading media content filters from a server device to a client device. The media content filters define portions of a separate audio visual presentation containing potentially objectionable subject matter. Depending on user selections, identified portions of the audio/visual presentation may be skipped and/or muted during play. In one particular implementation, the client device, e.g., a DVD player, is configured to initiate a connection with a server device. Upon successful connection, the server device transmits one or more media content filters to the client device. The client device may be configured to determine whether a particular media content filter is available, to facilitate deletion of some existing media content filters in order to secure adequate memory space, and to ensure that the media player has an active account, before initiating a connection with the server device. The server device may be configured to determine whether the media player is associated with an active user account, whether a requested filter is available, and whether adequate memory space is available at the media player, before transmitting media content filters to the client device.

主权项

1. A method for downloading at least one media content filter from a remote storage comprising:
establishing communication with a remote storage; requesting an at least one media content filter for a multimedia presentation from the remote storage, the multimedia presentation loadable in the media player, the multimedia presentation including encoded video data, the at least one media content filter identifying at least one discrete portion of the multimedia presentation and associated with at least one filtering action associated with the portion of the multimedia presentation, wherein the at least one media content filter does not include the multimedia presentation; receiving the at least one media content filter from the remote storage; locally storing the at least one media content filter in a memory; and automatically identifying and filtering presentation of portions of the multimedia presentation content during decoding of the encoded video data, using the at least one media content filter stored in the memory.