Patent ID: 6490726
Filing Date: 2002-12-03
Classification: H04L,H04N

Abstract:
A multi-functional system comprising:a module having a plurality of independent modes of operation including an operation system, a player for a disc with laser readable data stored thereon, and a screen for displaying information retrieved from said disc, one of the independent modes is an Internet mode; a disc as aforesaid operatively associated with said player; a first user-actuatable means operably associated with said module for controlling the operation of said player while in a first of the plurality of independent modes, said first user-actuatable means having a first switch operably associated with said module to cause the same to be in said first mode; and a second user-actuatable means operably associated with said module for establishing a connection to the Internet, and thereafter for displaying information available from an Internet site on said screen while said module is in said Internet mode, the second user-actuatable means having a second switch operably associated with said module to cause the same to be in said Internet mode; and wherein, said operating system is constructed such that, when operation of said module is switched from said first mode of operation to said Internet mode of operation via said second switch, said first mode of operation is frozen at a point, operation being resumed at said point where is was frozen when said module is switched back to said first mode of operation via said first switch.