Patent ID: 8495109

Claim:
An audiovisual data reproduction device, comprising: a network connection to a central server, the central server being configured to distribute files to the audiovisual data reproduction device; an operating system configured to manage the audiovisual data reproduction device; a storage medium; and a plurality of reception functions, each said reception function being associated with a respective type of data; wherein the audiovisual data reproduction device is configured to: select an available storage area of a specified minimum size, open a reception file on the storage medium of the audiovisual data reproduction device in the selected available storage area, receive each packet of a file sent by the central server and write each said packet sent by the central server to the reception file, each file sent by the central server including information representative of a type of data associated with the file, and for each file received, search for a respective reception function to be associated with each received file based at least in part on the information representative of the type of data associated with the file. wherein each said reception function is configured to process associated files that have been received and update the audiovisual reproduction device according to the data included in the processed received file, and wherein the minimum size corresponds to a size of the file sent by the central server.