Patent ID: 7742679

Claim:
A method for choosing the first candidate to be loaded from a series of job requests for a mix mode multimedia player, the mix mode multimedia player comprising a loader manager module, a playback manager module, a file system module, and a presentation engine module, the method comprising the steps of: providing a job table having a plurality of rows, wherein each row for a job has a job message with a “Priority” status, a “Usage status” status, and an “Examining function” status, and the jobs are generated by the loader manager module according to the job requests; arranging the job messages of the jobs according to the “Priority” status in order, and choosing the first candidate in the following steps: examining the “Usage status” status of the job message; if the “Usage status” is “used”, examining the “Examining function” status of the job message; and if the “Examining function” status is “Critical”, setting the job as the first candidate.