Patent ID: 7930368
Filing Date: 2011-04-19
Classification: G06F,G11B

Abstract:
1. A method of playing back content to be played back in association with a portable storage medium, the method comprising the following processor implemented steps: receiving a command to customize display parameters; accessing a first portable storage medium; identifying one or more customizable display parameters, defined on the first portable storage medium, that can be applied while displaying a first content associated with the first portable storage medium; displaying at least one of the one or more customizable display parameter; detecting a designation of a first definition for a first customizable display parameter, of the displayed at least one of the one or more customizable display parameter, alter a state of the first customizable display parameter from a first state to a second state; storing the first definition in response to detecting the designation of the first definition altering the state of the first customizable display parameter to the second state; displaying, through a playback device, the first content in association with the first portable storage medium while applying the first definition of the first customizable display parameter according to the second state; identifying additional customizable display parameters from a source other than the first portable storage medium; receiving a selection of a second customizable display parameter of the identified additional customizable display parameters; receiving a second definition for at least the second customizable display parameter; causing the second definition for the second customizable display parameter to be stored and associated with the second customizable display parameter; where the displaying the first content comprises displaying the first content while applying the first definition of the first customizable display parameter according to the second state and the second definition of the second customizable display parameter; directly accessing a second portable storage medium; displaying a second content retrieved from the second portable storage medium while applying the first customizable display parameter according to the second state, where the content retrieved from the second portable storage medium is different than the first content from the first portable storage medium; identifying a content owner of the second content retrieved from the second portable storage medium; determining whether the content owner is also the owner of the first content associated with the first portable storage medium; and wherein the displaying the second content comprises displaying the second content retrieved from the second portable storage medium while applying the first customizable display parameter according to the second state when the content owner of the second content retrieved from the second portable storage medium is also the owner of the first content associated with the first portable storage medium.