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

Claim 11:
12. A client device comprising:
a display device configured to display a plurality of thumbnails respectively corresponding to a plurality of multimedia files, wherein each of the plurality of thumbnails is associated with a corresponding one of a plurality of different resolutions,
wherein the client device is configured to:
receive a retrieve request when a corresponding one of a plurality of different thumbnails is selected on the display device,
determine a first resolution among the different resolutions when the received retrieve request includes a label that corresponds to a first thumbnail among the plurality of thumbnails,
determine a second resolution among the different resolutions when the received retrieve request includes a label that corresponds a second thumbnail among the plurality of thumbnails,
transmit a first retrieve request to request a provision of a first multimedia file among the multimedia files with the first resolution to a server configured to transmit a first read command to a storage device for the first multimedia file with the first resolution in response to the first retrieve request when the label corresponds to the first thumbnail,
transmit a second retrieve request to request a provision of a second multimedia file among the multimedia files with the second resolution to the server configured to transmit a second read command to the storage device for the second multimedia file with the second resolution in response to the second retrieve request when the label corresponds to the second thumbnail,
wherein the storage device stores a scalable format file, the first multimedia file is generated by the storage device transcoding the scalable format file according to the first resolution, and the second multimedia file is generated by the storage device transcoding the scalable format file according to the second resolution,
receive the first multimedia file from the storage device when the label corresponds to the first thumbnail, and
receive the second multimedia file from the storage device when the label corresponds to the second thumbnail,
wherein the plurality of resolutions respectively correspond to the plurality of multimedia files.