Electrical computers and digital data processing systems: input/ – Input/output data processing – Input/output command process
Patent
1998-07-01
2000-10-10
Lee, Thomas C.
Electrical computers and digital data processing systems: input/
Input/output data processing
Input/output command process
710 5, 710105, 369 36, 369 37, 369192, G06F 1300, G11B 1722
Patent
active
061311294
ABSTRACT:
In a home audio visual network including a plurality of devices coupled via an IEEE 1394 bus, a system for accessing a media changer mechanism of a multi-item media player. The multi-item media player stores a plurality of media items and can play any of the plurality of media items. A media changer mechanism having a plurality of slots for storing the plurality of media items is included within the multi-item media player. A computer system is built into the multi-item media player. A software based media changer model executes on the computer system, and in turn, causes the computer system to implement a method of accessing the media changer mechanism. In so doing, the computer system interfaces with a plurality of devices coupled to the multi-item media player via an IEEE 1394 communications link of an IEEE 1394 based network and provides a standardized command set for the media changer mechanism. The media changer model provides a set of standardized commands that allow the plurality of devices on the network to access the media changer mechanism and access any of the plurality of media items stored therein.
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Inoue Hiraku
Kawamura Harumi
Ludtke Harold Aaron
Cao Chun
Lee Thomas C.
Sony Corporation of Japan
Sony Electronics Inc.
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