Patent ID: 11940949
Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A storage device comprising:
a non-volatile memory including a plurality of memory areas; and
a memory controller configured to:
transcode a first multimedia file of an original format to a second multimedia file of a scalable format, and
store the second multimedia file into the non-volatile memory,

wherein the memory controller is further configured to:
determine whether a received retrieve request is one of a first retrieve request or a second retrieve request from a label included within the received retrieve request corresponding to one of a plurality of different thumbnails;

in response to determining the received retrieve request is the first retrieve request,
requesting a provision of a file with a first resolution or a first bit rate, received from an external device located external to the storage device, select the first resolution among a plurality of different resolutions or the first bit rate among a plurality of different bit rates corresponding to the first retrieve request, transcode the second multimedia file to a third multimedia file according to the first resolution or the first bitrate, and transmit the third multimedia file to external device, and

in response to determining the received retrieve request the second retrieve request,
requesting a provision of a file with a second resolution or a second bit rate, received from the external device, select the second resolution among the plurality of different resolutions or the second bit rate among the plurality of different bit rates corresponding to the second retrieve request, transcode the second multimedia file to a fourth multimedia file according to the second resolution or the second bitrate, and transmit the fourth multimedia file to the external device.