Server for providing media files for download by a user and the corresponding system and method
摘要
說明書
This type of identification of the playback device in a network or in a system can be used to bill a user of the playback device for the transmission of data packets to the playback device. Thus, the transmission of individual data packets, e.g. the transmission of data packets necessary for the playback of an audio book, can be billed individually. Flat rate billing systems are also conceivable. Or linking the possibility of downloading such data packages to a time or period of time, for example in the sense of “borrowing an audio book”.
This type of identification of the playback device in a network or in a system can also be used to transmit control information concerning the operation of the playback device, which is kept as a data packet in an external memory until the playback device logs on to the system with the corresponding device identification, to exactly the playback device. If such a playback device is integrated, for example, into a system which is intended to enable third parties, for example parents, to limit the usage time of the playback device or the maximum volume of the playback of audio information via a program (a user interface) on a smartphone or a tablet of the third party, an embodiment is conceivable in which the restrictions generated on the smartphone or the tablet are stored as a data package in an external memory or in an external control unit, for example a cloud (a server). The device identifier allows the third party to inform the external storage or external control unit for which playback device the data package is intended. If the playback device logs on with this device identifier, the data package is then transferred to the playback device.
