Patent ID: 8301283

Claim:
A method for outputting audio-visual media contents on a mobile electronic device, the method comprising: receiving a request for the output of an audio-visual media content which is stored in a compressed format in a memory in a mobile electronic device; checking of whether a copy of the requested media content is stored in an uncompressed format in a nonvolatile memory in the device; checking of whether the device is being supplied with electric current through a battery operation or through external supply of power, allowing outputting the stored copy of the requested media content in the uncompressed format instead of the requested media content stored in the compressed format if the copy of the requested media content is stored in the uncompressed format in the nonvolatile memory in the device and if the device is in battery operation or external power operation, and allowing decompressing and outputting the requested media content stored in the compressed format if the device is in external power supply operation.