Method and System for Integrating Browsing Histories with Media Playlists

a technology for browsing histories and media playlists, applied in the direction of selective content distribution, data processing applications, instruments, etc., can solve the problems of unclear how such playlists should interact with the web browser's history, media player or the most readily apparent way does not completely satisfy the user's requirements for a media browser application, and continues media have not previously conformed to the user model of browsing, etc., to achieve the effect of adding media browsing functionality

Inactive Publication Date: 2008-11-20
COMMONWEALTH SCI & IND RES ORG
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[0021]Accordingly, an advantage provided by the present invention is the linking of the playlist with the history list to provide the user with access to both paradigms, while ensuring consistency between them by performing corresponding updates when the currently-playing media document changes.
[0023]The termination of playback of the first media document and loading for playback of the second media document may be a result of the first media document playing to completion, wherein the second media document is the next media document referenced in the playlist. Advantageously, the automatic advancement of playback through the playlist (ie the normal function of a playlist) results in corresponding updates to the history list, thereby ensuring a consistent user experience.
[0027]Accordingly, the addition of the “linked from” document to the history list would appear natural to the user. Again, however, methods according to preferred embodiments of the present invention provide the advantage that a corresponding update to the currently-playing item in the playlist ensures continuity of the user experience by maintaining consistency between the playlist and the history list.

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Accordingly, continuous media have not previously conformed to the user model of browsing that the Web promotes.
However, once it is appreciated that it would be desirable to provide playlists as web resources (ie playlists provided as downloadable, linkable document objects from web servers), it becomes unclear how such playlists should interact with the web browser's history.
As will be appreciated from the foregoing discussion, simply extending a media player or a web browser application in the most readily apparent manner does not entirely satisfy a user's requirements for a media browser application.
In particular, it is rather cumbersome to require the user to mentally switch between the two user interface paradigms of the playlist and the browsing history, when they wish to accomplish the same goals in both types of applications.

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[0067]The present invention is directed to the implementation of a media browser, which is a software-enabled device, or an executable software application for use on general-purpose computing hardware, for providing integrated playback and browsing of web-enabled media documents. Web-enabled media documents include media having embedded mark-up elements providing active links to other media, or alternative types of content documents. Such embedded mark-up elements may be provided, for example, using the Continuous Media Mark-up Language (CMML), which provides hyperlinks and metadata which may be embedded into media documents. It will be appreciated, however, that a typical web browsing session may include accessing a variety of different types of content document, including HTML documents and conventional media documents which do not include embedded mark-up elements. Accordingly, embodiments of the present invention are able to work with a number of different types of media and ot...

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A method for maintaining a media playlist (100) and a browsing history list of a media browsing session on a media playback device. The media playlist (100) includes a reference to at least one media document available for playback on the device, and a playlist pointer (112) identifying a currently-playing media document in the playlist (100). The browsing history list includes references to zero or more content documents previously accessed in the media browsing session. Responsive to termination of playback of a first media document and loading for playback of a second media document on the media playback device, the method includes the steps of updating the playlist pointer (112) to identify the second media document as the currently-playing media document, and updating the browsing history list to include a reference to the first media document as the most recently accessed content document. The method provides a user of a media playback device with access to a playlist, as commonly provided with media players, as well as a history list, as commonly provided with web browsers, which are integrated in a consistent manner to facilitate efficient and intuitive media browsing. A corresponding media playback device and software product are also provided.

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FIELD OF THE INVENTION[0001]The present invention relates to methods and apparatus for browsing media documents, especially media documents made available via distributed information networks such as the World Wide Web.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0002]The World Wide Web has evolved into the de facto standard for distributed information retrieval. The combination of an open networking standard (the Hypertext Transfer Protocol, HTTP), global resource identifiers (Universal Resource Locators, URL, or Universal Resource Identifiers, URI), and a simple mark-up language for text documents (Hypertext Mark-up Language, HTML) have enabled a platform for building a highly cohesive and connected information network. Most commonly, a user interface for accessing and browsing the World Wide Web is provided by a web browser software application, exemplified by products such as Microsoft Internet Explorer, Firefox (based on the earlier Netscape Navigator browser) and the Opera web browser.[0003]At...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(United States)
IPC IPC(8): G06F17/30
CPCG06F17/30053G06F17/30064H04N21/4667G06F16/447G06F16/4387G06Q50/10H04N21/466
Inventor PFEIFFER, SILVIAPANG, ANDREPARKER, CONRAD
Owner COMMONWEALTH SCI & IND RES ORG
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