Patent ID: 7805405

Claim:
Network extensible reconfigurable media appliance comprising: a media unit comprising a sensor, and a first reconfigurable logic circuit; a controller comprising microprocessor, and a second reconfigurable logic circuit; and a communication unit comprising a network controller, and a third reconfigurable logic circuit, wherein one or more of the reconfigurable logic circuits process billing, DRM, security, identification, authoring, and tagging, wherein the sensor is part of a micro-sensor platform for low-power wireless sensor network of collaborative network-extensible reconfigurable media appliances, each such appliance synchronizing with one or more other appliance in such network according to each such appliance sensor generation of one or more metadata tag for collaborative media generation according to a network-extensible reconfigurable effects studio for providing synchronized collaborative media from such networked appliances; wherein one or more of the reconfigurable logic circuits adaptively guides one or more media appliance operator in making discretionary emergency decisions to take alternate script paths, alter flow of script, storyboard or digital template, or deviate from such script, storyboard or digital template when one or more emergency condition or event does not occur according to such script, storyboard or digital template, said adaptive emergency guidance automatically employing one or more non-deterministic script, storyboard or digital template according to automated logic specified using Bayesian modeling, neural networks, fuzzy logic, or other adaptive technique for making emergency decisions under complex conditions or under incomplete information.