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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 14, 2012
Filed:
Aug. 26, 2004
Wilhelmus Franciscus Johannes Fontijn, Eindhoven, NL;
Wilhelmus Franciscus Johannes Fontijn, Eindhoven, NL;
Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Abstract
A method of retrieving content data and instructional data from a storage medium includes providing a storage medium having content data and instructional data, the content data having a physical and logical format on the storage medium that is known to the instructional data, wherein the instructional data includes plug-in data and has a physical and logical format on the storage medium that is known to firmware of a storage medium reading device, and further wherein the physical and logical format of the content data on the storage medium is incompatible and unknown to the firmware of the storage medium reading device. The method further includes retrieving, via the firmware, the instructional data from a predefined position on the storage medium and retrieving, via the firmware in cooperation with the instructional data, the content data from the storage medium.