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Local Stages Kept Things Interesting in 2013
Rick Pender
0 Comments · Monday, December 23, 2013
How was 2013 as a year for plays and musicals in Cincinnati? From where I stand — or sit, since I'm most often in a seat at one of our local theaters — it stacked up pretty well.
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Concert Photography Celebrated at Know
CincyMusic.com hosts a happy hour party featuring locally-shot live music photography
Tomorrow (Friday) at Over-the-Rhine's Know Theatre of Cincinnati, a special photography collection will be on the display, showcasing some of the best work of local photographers who especially shine when shooting live music events. In the spirit of the Reverberation: Capturing the Live Music Experience exhibit presented by FofoFocus at the Art Academy of Cincinnati this past September leading up to the MidPoint Music Festival, the photographers whose work is published at the great local music site CincyMusic.com have put together a collection of some of their favorite shots. The photos — by Jacob Drabik, Brian Bruemmer, Kelly Painter, Phil Dawson, Julia Huber, Matt Steffen, Mike Clare and Sarah McDermott — were all taken at club shows, festivals and concerts in the Cincinnati area (including ones from MidPoint and the Bunbury Music Festival). CincyMusic.com hosts tomorrow's free event at Know, which kicks off at 5:30 p.m. and runs until 8 p.m. There will be light appetizers and the venue's lower-level bar will be open for business. And if you're up for a little theatre afterwards, tickets are still available for Know's 8 p.m. staging of Bull, a play about adult bullying (timely!). Rick Pender reviewed Bull in CityBeat earlier this month, writing, "You won't like anyone you see onstage in this savage tale. You'll probably question your own enjoyment of the show's dark humor and vicious actions. But the acting and staging of Bull make this a riveting piece of theater." Get tickets here or at the theatre if any remain.
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Passing of Knowledge
Rick Pender
0 Comments · Wednesday, October 2, 2013
A change in leadership is under way at Over-the-Rhine's Know Theatre. Eric Vosmeier, producing artistic director for the past half-dozen years, is gradually handing over the reins to resident scenic and lighting designer Andrew Hungerford. Know, an adventurous and occasionally chaotic organization that began in 1997, is handling this evolution in a surprisingly orderly fashion.
by Rick Pender
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Stage Door: Pre-Labor Day Offerings
A few good local productions are winding up this weekend. On Labor Day weekend, you won't find much onstage. But you have a couple of decent choices right now to tide you over. At the top of my list would be Chicago at the Carnegie (CityBeat review here). It's a classic musical by Kander & Ebb, getting an excellent staging — great performances (by some solid professionals with Broadway experience as well as rising talent from universities around the Tristate), great choreography (Bob Fosse's iconic style has been updated in some very imaginative ways) and really hot orchestral accompaniment (the musicians would be worth listening to on their own!) It all adds up to some fabulous razzle-dazzle. Final performance is Sunday at 3 p.m. Tickets ($19-$26): 859-957-1940. Know Theatre wraps up its run of Lauren Gunderson's very contemporary comedy, Toil and Trouble, which has echoes of Shakespeare's Macbeth from start to finish (CityBeat review here). Inspired by messages from fortune cookies (in place of Macbeth's witches) A couple of slackers and their aggressive sportscaster girlfriend concoct a crazy scheme to grab power and wealth. Of course, it goes wildly wrong, with a lot of laughs along the way. Final performance is Saturday at 8 p.m. Tickets ($20): 513-300-5669 And if you're a Woody Allen fan, you might want to board the Showboat Majestic at the Public Landing for Don't Drink the Water, a play he wrote in 1966 that had a two-year run on Broadway. Set inside an American embassy behind the Iron Curtain, the show features lots of Allen's hallmarks: farcical situations, loopy characters and a high dose of humor. Final performance is Sunday at 2 p.m. Tickets ($19-$20): 513-241-6550 The current issue of CityBeat includes previews of the fall arts season. It's online here, including my suggestions about shows from local theaters here.
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Things Known and Unknown — Upcoming Shows at Know Theatre
Rick Pender
0 Comments · Wednesday, August 21, 2013
A year ago, Know Theatre announced a strategic plan to shift away from being a traditional company offering annual seasons. Instead, Know announces programming on a rolling basis. That led to a lighter-than-expected stretch in 2012 and 2013, which nonetheless featured several excellent productions.
by Rick Pender
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Stage Door: Comedies and Classics
Summer is flying by, or so it seems. This is the final weekend for you to see Cincinnati Shakespeare's production of The 39 Steps (CityBeat review here), a satiric adaptation of Alfred Hitchcock's classic 1935 film of espionage and intrigue. Making it all the more amusing is the fact that the story is performed by four actors, two of whom play most of the citizens of London and beyond, using a lot of quick changes and quick thinking. It's a very entertaining evening of tomfoolery, featuring four of Cincy Shakes' most talented comedic actors. Your last chances to see the show are Friday and Saturday at 7:30 p.m. 513-381-2273.Another entertaining production is Lauren Gunderson's very new play, Toil and Trouble (CityBeat review here), at Know Theatre. It's a comedy about contemporary slackers trying to make a quick buck that's got a very Shakespearean ring to it — Macbeth, to be precise. The humor presses a bit too hard at moments, but if you go to have a good time, you'll definitely find one. Instead of warriors and kings vying for the throne, this one focuses on 30-year-olds trying to strike it rich without working too hard — but the echoes of the Elizabethan tragedy can't be missed. There's a steady stream of sports talk, too, making comparisons between baseball and life. It's a strange brew, but plenty of laughs. Through Aug. 24. Tickets: 513-300-5669. Musicals are always popular, but for some reason they seem especially attractive fare in the summer months. So we can say thanks to the Carnegie in Covington for serving up a tasty one, Kander and Ebb's Chicago, an all-time Broadway favorite. This production — the sexy, salacious tale of murderous women in Chicago in the 1920s — features choreography by Broadway veteran and Cincinnati native David Baum in his local professional debut. Word has it that he's put together some of the most inventive choreography seen on local stages in a long time. The production opens on Saturday evening (7:30 p.m.) and repeats on Sunday (3 p.m.). It continues for two more weekends, through Aug. 25. 859-957-1940. Also onstage this weekend (and running through Aug. 25) is Woody Allen's hit Broadway comedy, Don't Drink the Water. Amusingly, it's on board the Showboat Majestic (where you definitely don't want to drink the water) — but it's a humorous tale of tourists caught in an American embassy behind the Iron Curtain. Lightweight entertainment, but a lot of fun. 513-241-6550.
by Rick Pender
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Stage Door: Double Dose from CSC
Cincinnati Shakespeare Company is offering a double dose of entertainment this weekend. First and foremost is The 39 Steps at CSC's mainstage (CityBeat review here). If that title sounds familiar, it's because it was a classic espionage novel a century ago, made into a classic film by Alfred Hitchcock 80 years ago, now turned into a very funny riff on its predecessors as a play using only four actors to fill all the roles. CSC has ramped up the humor by using four of its best comedic actors — Nick Rose, Miranda McGee, Justin McComb and Billy Chace — who play the principals, plus much of the population of London, especially McComb and Chace who will make you dizzy as they shift from one part to another, sometimes within seconds. It's actually a faithful retelling of the story, but it's amped up to a high level of hilarity by the onstage shenanigans. It adds up to great summertime humor. It's being performed through Aug. 11. Tickets: 513-381-2273, x1. One show isn't enough for CSC: This weekend they also launch their annual free Shakespeare in the Park tour with a performance of Romeo & Juliet at Boone Woods Park in Burlington at 7 p.m. on Saturday. (If you live north of the river, you'll get your chance next Wednesday evening at Eden Park's Seasongood Pavilion or at Burnet Woods in Clifton on Thursday.) As noted, these are free presentations, presented in classic Elizabethan style and use six actors from the company's resident ensemble. These are the same productions that CSC tours to schools and community centers, so they're great for the entire family. A week from now they'll start performing A Midsummer Night's Dream at some locations. For a full schedule, go here. Shakespeare is behind the story of Toil and Trouble, the current offering at Know Theatre. It's a new play (this is just the second time its been produced; its world premiere was in California last fall) that offers a contemporary riff on Macbeth (CityBeat review here). Instead of kings and warriors, however, its characters are a pair of thirtysomething slackers and Beth, a wildly ambitious sportscaster who has more testosterone than either of the guys. There's a lot of wacky moments in this play, replaces Macbeth's witches with fortune cookies and the kingdom of Scotland with an almost unpopulated island off the coast of Chile. You can pick up on the laughs through Aug. 24. Tickets: 513-300-5669. At the Covedale Center for the Performing Arts, the annual production by Cincinnati Young People's Theatre is Grease, a tried-and-true musical about kids in the '50s at Rydell High. Sixty years haven't dimmed the musicality of the show, and the youthful performers will bring this one to life if you're in the mood for a classic. It wraps up with a matinee on Sunday. Tickets: 513-241-6550. While the Cincinnati Symphony's LumenoCity isn't exactly theater, the performances in Washington Park on Saturday and Sunday evening — with a dazzling light show on the facade of Music Hall — will definitely be theatrical. It's the debut for Louis Langree as the CSO's new music director, and the program will feature performers from Cincinnati Ballet and Cincinnati Opera. But the big deal is the colorful illumination that will let you see historic Music Hall in a light you've never imagined. It's free, starting at 8:30 p.m. both nights; big crowds are expected, so come early. Don't you wish the streetcar were already here so you could ride it to Over-the-Rhine?
Toil and Trouble (Review)
In-the-moment, fast-talking producting loses some humor in the fury
Rick Pender
0 Comments · Wednesday, July 31, 2013
Lauren Gunderson's Toil and Trouble is a very new play inspired by Shakespeare's Macbeth. The title page of her script calls it a "Scottish-ish" comedy. Know Theatre of Cincinnati is giving the script just its second production.
by Rick Pender
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Stage Door: Curtain Goes Up
Finally, a weekend with some theater choices for your entertainment, even though the weather is beautiful enough to keep us outdoors. But you want to see a curtain go up somewhere, right?You'll have fun for sure if you go to see The 39 Steps at Cincinnati Shakespeare Company. If that title sounds vaguely familiar, it's because Alfred Hitchcock made a classic film that's at the root of this very amusing piece of theater. Four actors play all the roles of what was a taut tale of murder and espionage. The story's still there, but the telling of it makes it a new experience. It's a chance to see four of CSC's best comic actors at work, too. Through Aug. 11. Tickets: 513-381-2273. Speaking of vaguely familiar, this weekend is your first chance to check out a virtually brand-new show at Know Theatre, Toil and Trouble. It's a contemporary take on Shakespeare's Macbeth, but the characters are two slackers and an over-the-top ambitious girlfriend. It opens tonight (running through Aug. 24); so I haven't seen it yet, but I've read the script, and this one shows promise. It's only had one production,it's world premiere at Impact Theatre in Berkeley, Calif., last November. If you prefer something definitely familiar, head to the Covedale for the 32nd annual summer musical by Cincinnati Young People's Theatre, which opens tonight. It's Grease, a show about rowdy teens in the 1950s. I suspect that local teens from all over Cincinnati will have a blast with this one. It has a short run, just through Aug. 4. Tickets: 513-241-6550. One last suggestion: The Showboat Majestic is presenting Big River, a musical based on Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn. Since it's about the adventures of Huck and Jim, a runaway slave, escaping on the mighty Mississippi (a river that wouldn't be much without the contributions of the Ohio), the 'boat seems like the perfect setting. Tunes by Pop composer Roger Miller make for a rollicking evening of music. It's one of my favorite shows; I've never been disappointed by a production of it. It wraps up this weekend on Sunday. Tickets: 513-241-6550.
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Over the last 6 years, I have developed a wide range of desktop applications and websites using HMTL and/or asp.net with MySQL backend including sites for large companies. I am seeking opportunities to build applications and websites from the ground up for you or your business. I have excellent writing skills. I am proficient in preparing documents and presentations with graphics and animations. I also have experience in the following areas: SQL, C++, C#, ASP.NET and software design and testing. Work Experience and Career Related projects: designing and implementing a multilingual (Arabic/English/...) construction company website using joomla designed and implemented an asp.net multi-lingual car rental website www.oneseasontrans.com Worked in revamping an online food ordering service provider www.otlob.com Worked in reconstructing for dsl services provider www.linkdsl.com Implemented a windows desktop application for organizing media files, creating playlists and manage them using C#. Built web applications using ASP.NET 2.0. Designed and implemented a game with OpenGL API using C++, in a team of four. Developed a device driver for USB Device for Linux. Programmed and simulated an Auto Caller using J2ME. Designed and created a database project for a Resort using Oracle (SQL server) and Microsoft Access. Developed a BattleShip game using java. Worked in developing a website for 2010 census of the United States using asp.net, C# and SQL serve Certificates and Trainings: PSP (Personal Software Process) For Engineers I "Planning": Qualified to work in a TSP (Team Software Process), level CMMI 5. Process-based approach for developing software. PSP (Personal Software Process) For Engineers II "Quality": continuation of the previous course. Targeted to improve personal performance.
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Meteorites descend onto a farm, and Dr. Curtis Temple, an astrophysicist, and Richard Arden, a government official, send their assistant, Lee Mason, to investigate. Lee and fellow scientist Allan Mullane are penetrated by the meteoritic glow and begin behaving like robots. Temple tries to learn what is happening at the farm and is attacked by Mullane, then knocked unconscious by Lee's ray-gun. Recovering, Temple discovers that Lee's body has been taken over by strange astral beings. Then a plague spreads across the town, threatening to become worldwide, though Temple and the assisting scientists escape death. Temple fires the ray-gun at Lee to destroy the creature within her, then the three scientists board a rocket headed for the moon. Once there, they learn that the creatures are disembodied intelligences from a far galaxy whose spaceship crashed on the moon. The victims of the plague are not really dead but temporarily petrified until they can be used as a labor force in building a spaceship to return the creatures to their galaxy. Farge, another scientist, leads a revolt of the slave men, and he and Temple convince their leader that they will be helped without coercion--thus beginning a new era of friendship between earthmen and the beings from beyond space.


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This application is a Continuation of application Ser. No. 08/817,426, filled on Jun. 19, 1997 now abandoned, which is a 371 of PCT/FR95/01337 filled on Oct. 12, 1995.
This application is related to our co-pending commonly assigned applications:
(Corres. to PCT/FR94/01185
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(Corres. to PCT/FR95/01333
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(Corres. to PCT/FR95/01334
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(Corres. to PCT/FR95/01335
filed Oct. 12, 1995)
(Corres. to PCT/FR95/01336
filed Oct. 12, 1995)
(Corres. to PCT/FR95/01338
filed Oct. 12, 1995)
1. Field of the Invention
This invention relates to an audiovisual distribution system for playing an audiovisual piece on at least one audiovisual device from among a plurality of audiovisual devices linked in a network to a central server.
2. Description of Related Art
Networks exist which make it possible to produce music from a jukebox-type device by frequency multiplexing a musical selection on a cable network of the coaxial cable type used to distribute television channels. A device such as this one is known from patent EP 0140593. This patent has the drawback, however, that it requires conversion boxes to demultinaex signals, and it uses a network of the coaxial type involving—for one channel—distribution of the same selection to all stations.
A first object of the invention is to allow the network to distribute as a matter of choice either the same selection to all the devices, or a different selection to each individual device; the selection can be either of the audio or video type.
British patent 2193420 and patent PCT WO 9415416 also disclose audio selection distribution networks requiring telephone lines. Due to the use of these telephone lines, network transmission speeds are limited and a network such as this cannot be used for distribution of video selections requiring a high transmission speed to allow good-quality video reproduction.
PCT patent WO 9415416 discloses use of a telephone line of the ISDN type, but even this type of line—the transmission speed of which is limited to 18 megabits per second—is not sufficient to distribute good-quality video data to a sufficient number of devices.
Finally, another object of the invention is a network in which the costly elements are transferred to the level of the server to reduce the cost of each audiovisual reproduction device, but without detriment to their performance. These costly elements are high-capacity hard disks allowing storage of a sufficient number of data selections, in particular video, and also telecommunication modems with transmission speeds allowing the network to be linked to a central system servicing a plurality of networks.
This object is achieved in an audiovisual distribution system according to the present invention. An audiovisual piece can be played on at least one audiovisual device from among a plurality of audiovisual devices. Each device includes audio or video units for playing a piece. The audio or video units are linked to a central computer server containing optical or magnetic memory for mass storage of a plurality of audiovisual pieces selectable from any of these devices. Each of the audiovisual devices has interactive structure for communication with the user to select a piece or a menu, a payment device, a computer network card, a permanent semiconductor memory containing a multitask operating system including at least one hard disk access management task in which the order to play a piece resulting from a selection is handled as a hard disk sequential access task and declaration of the hard disk as a peripheral corresponding to the network card of the device, in order to allow a request to a server to be sent through the network for processing. The server includes a multitask operating system, a permanent mass memory of the magnetic or optical type, and a network card by which the requests from different devices are received. The operating system processes these disk access requests produced by the devices as actual disk access requests.
Another feature of the invention is that in the operating system of each audiovisual device, the declaration of the telecommunications modem belonging to a telecommunications access task as peripheral corresponds to that of the network card, and when a telecommunications access request is made at the device level, the network card of this device transmits this request to the server which itself has at least one telecommunications modem.
According to another feature, the audiovisual device is assured beforehand by a request that the modem card of the server be available.
According to another feature, the transmission speed of each network card and the buffers of video and audio control circuits are dimensioned to allow exchange of data with a transmission rate sufficient for video animation on a network containing at least eight audiovisual devices.
According to another feature, each audiovisual device has a touch screen and its interface software connected as an interactive means of communication with the user.
According to another feature, the network has as many servers each linked to a hard disk as it does servers corresponding to the number (multiple of eight) of audiovisual devices.
According to another feature, the operating system of each server is linked to a switching device making it possible to decide whether the data supplied in response to the request of one network device are given to all the network devices or only to those devices which transmitted a request.
According to another feature, the server is equipped with structure for audio or video performance of a piece, a payment device, and structure for interactive communication with a user or network manager.
Other advantages and features of the invention will be discussed in the description below, with reference to the attached drawings, given by way of an illustrative example but not limited to one embodiment of the invention, in which:
Preferably, but in a nonrestrictive manner, the audiovisual reproduction system uses the components cited above and numbered hereafter as in
The system is comprised of a plurality of audiovisual devices AV (8 1, 8 2, 8 i, 8 16) linked to one another and via a computer server to at least one server (9 1, 9 2).
There are two types of servers (9 1, 9 2) which can be linked to a local network (10), master servers (9 1) and mirror servers (9 2). Master servers (9 1) are those which are actively involved with the local network. They are the ones which receive requests from the jukeboxes (8) and which do the work.
The job of the mirror servers (9 2) is to clone the master servers (9 1). They must be perfectly synchronized with their masters to be ready for any change. When they detect that the master server (9 1) is no longer responding to the requests of the jukeboxes (8), they must make distress calls to the network administrators in order to take over for the masters until the latter are operating normally again.
Each server (9 1, 9 2) is comprised of a central microprocessor (1 in
The operating system of the network cards must be a local network server such as NOVELL, OS/2 LAN SERVER, UNIX or any other similar operating system.
This network server software allows access, exchange and sharing of data and equipment resources in an orderly manner by applying priorities and rules of access to each of the customers connected to the local network.
Any other central processor with equivalent or better performance can be used in the invention.
The central unit (1,
For maintenance, server (9) uses external keyboard (34) which can be linked to the server which has for that purpose a keyboard connector, controlled by interface circuit (3).
Mass storage means (21) using high-speed, high-capacity SCSI-type hard disks are connected to the storage means already present in the microprocessor of server (9). These means are used to store digitized and compressed audiovisual data.
High-speed telecommunications modem circuit (41) of at least 28.8 Kbps is incorporated into server (9) to authorize the link to a network for distribution of audiovisual data controlled by a central system covering several servers.
Each audiovisual device (8) has one central microprocessor unit (1,
Any other central processor with equivalent or better performance can be used in the invention.
This central unit controls and manages audio control circuit (5), input control circuit (3), computer network control circuit (7) and display control circuit (6). The display consists essentially of a 14 or 15 inch (35.56 cm) flat screen video monitor (62) without interleaving of the SVGA type, with high resolution and low radiation, which is used for image reproduction (for example, the covers of the albums of the musical selections), graphics or video clips.
To reproduce the audio data of musical selections, the devices and possibly the server(s) have loudspeakers (54) which receive the signal of an amplifier-tuner (53) linked to electronic circuit (5) of the music synthesizer type intended to support a large number of input sources while providing one output with CD (compact disk)-type quality, such as for example the microprocessor multimedia audio adapter of the "Sound Blaster" card type SBP32AWE by Creative Labs Inc to which two memory buffers (56, 57) are added for the purpose described below. This circuit (5) has the function of decompressing the digital data arriving via the network.
Likewise the display control circuit also has two buffer memories (66, 67) for the purpose described below.
A ventilated, thermally controlled power supply of 240 watts powers each device or server. This power supply is protected from surges and harmonics.
Each audiovisual device (8) and possibly the server(s) (9) manage—via input controller circuit (3)—an "Intelli Touch" 14-inch (35.56 cm) touch screen (33) from Elo Touch Systems Inc. which includes a glass coated board using "advanced surface wave technology" and an AT type bus controller. This touch screen allows, after having displayed on video monitor (62) or television screen (61) various selection data used by the customers, as well as management command and control information used by the system manager or owner. It is likewise used on each device (8) for maintenance purposes in combination with external keyboard (34) which can be connected to the device which has a keyboard connector for this purpose, controlled by key lock (32) via interface circuit (3).
Input circuit (3) of at least one of devices (8) of the network likewise interfaces with a remote control set (31) composed for example of:
A fee payment device (35) from National Rejectors Inc. is likewise connected to input interface circuit (3). It is also possible to use any other device which allows receipt of any type of payment by coins, bills, tokens, magnetic chip cards or a combination of means of payment.
To house the circuits, each device has a chassis or frame of steel with external customizable fittings.
Besides these components, a wireless or wired microphone (55) is connected to audio controller (5) of each device; this allows transformation of the latter into a powerful public address system or possibly a karaoke machine. Likewise a wireless loudspeaker system can be used by the system.
Remote control set (31) allows the manager, for example from behind the bar, to access and control various commands such as:
Two buffers (56, 57) are connected to audio controller circuit (5) to allow storage of information corresponding to a quarter of a second of sound each in alternation. Likewise two buffers (66, 67) are linked to each video controller circuit (6), each of which is able to store a tenth of a second of video in alternation. Finally, an input interface buffer (36) is connected to each input interface (3) of each device (8) or server (9).
The system operating software of each device (8) or server (9) was developed around a library of tools and services largely oriented to the audiovisual domain in a multimedia environment. This library advantageously includes a powerful multitask operating system which effectively authorizes simultaneous execution of multiple fragments of code. This operating software thus allows concurrent execution—in an orderly manner and avoiding any conflict—of operations carried out on the display or audio reproduction structure as well as management of the telecommunications lines via the distribution network. In addition, the software has high flexibility.
The digitized and compressed audiovisual data are stored in storage (21) of server (9).
Each selection is available in two digitized formats: with hi-fi quality or CD quality.
The operating software of each device (8) is installed in the battery backed-up static RAM of each device (8), while the operating software of server (9) can be backed up on hard disk (21) and loaded for operation in the server's RAM.
It must be noted that the specific tasks of the modules which make up the operating system are executed simultaneously in an environment using the multitask operating system. Consequently, the organizational chart indicates specific operations which a module must perform and not a branch to this module which would invalidate all the operations performed by the other modules.
The first module, labeled SSM, is the startup module. This module does only one thing, and consequently it is loaded automatically when the device or server is powered up and then directly re-enters the "in service" mode of the module labeled RMM.
The RMM module is the module of the "in service" mode which is the mode of operation which the system enters when its registration number has been validated. In this mode, device (8) or server (9) is ready to handle any request which can be triggered by various predefined events such as:
Device (8) or server (9) remains in the "in service" mode until one of the events cited above takes place.
The CBSM module is the customer browsing and selection mode. Access to this module is triggered from the "in service" mode when the customer touches the screen. The display allows the user to view a menu provided for powerful browsing assisted by digitized voice messages to guide the user in his choice of musical selections.
The TSM module is the telecommunications services mode module between the network server and a central system covering several servers belonging to different networks. The module allows management of all management services available on the distribution network. All the tasks specific to telecommunications are managed as background tasks of the system. These tasks always use only parts of the processing time remaining once the system has completed all its foreground tasks. Thus, when the system is busy with one of its higher priority tasks, the telecommunications tasks automatically will try to reduce the limitations on system resources and recover all the microprocessor processing time left available.
The SPMM module allows management of musical, song or video selections queued by the system for execution in the order of selection.
The multitask operating system is the essential component for allowing simultaneous execution of multiple code fragments and for managing priorities between the various tasks which arise.
This multitask operating system is organized as shown in
It should be noted that the programming interface of the network card is supplied with the card when a network kit is purchased and that the network card is declared to the operating system as the peripheral comprising the hard disk or the modem, telecommunication card of each audiovisual device (8). Thus each operating system of each device (8), after calling a telecommunications procedure or hard disk access procedure following a selection, triggers a network communication session in which the network card of the server will make the called resource available to each audiovisual device (8).
Five tasks with a decreasing order of priority are managed by the kernel of the operating system, the first (76) for the video inputs/outputs has the highest priority, the second (75) of level two relates to audio, the third (74) of level three to telecommunications, the fourth (73) of level four to interfaces and the fifth (70) of level five to management. These orders of priority will be considered by priority resolution module (11) as and when a task appears and disappears. Thus, as soon as a video task appears, the other tasks underway are suspended, priority is given to this task and all the resources are assigned to the video task. At the output, video task (76) is designed to unload the video files from mass memory (21) alternatively to one of two buffers (66, 67) of device (8) which made the request, whereas the other buffer (67 or 66) is used by video controller circuit (6) of device (8) having made the request to produce the display after data decompression. At the input, video task (76) from server (9) is designed to transfer data received in telecommunications buffer (46) of server (9) to mass storage (21) of server (9). It is the same for audio task (75) on the one hand at the input between a telecommunications buffer (46) and the buffer (26) of mass memory (21) and on the other hand at the output between a buffer (26) of mass memory (21) of server (9) and one of two buffers (56, 57) of audio controller circuit (5) of device (8) which made the request.
Task scheduling module (12) of each device (8) or server (9) will now be described in conjunction with
Detection of an active task or ready task is done as shown in
Test (721) makes it possible to see whether the data are present in the input and output memory buffer of the disk, test (731) makes it possible to see whether data are present in the hardware or software memory buffers of the customer interface device, test (741) makes it possible to see whether data are present in the software or hardware memory buffers of the telecommunications device, test (751) makes it possible to determine whether data are present in the hardware or software memory buffer for direction, and test (761) makes it possible to see whether data are present in the hardware or software memory buffers of the video device.
If one or more of these buffers are filled with data, scheduler (12) positions respective status buffer or buffers (821) for the hard disk, (831) for the interface, (841) for telecommunications, (851) for audio, (861) for video corresponding to the material in a logic state indicative of the activity. In the opposite case the scheduler status buffers are returned at stage (800) to a value indicative of inactivity.
The operating status of server (9) or respectively of device (8) is kept on hard disk (21) of server (9) or respectively in the battery backed-up memory of device (8).
Each time a notable event occurs, the system immediately registers it in the permanent storage.
Thus, in the case in which an electrical fault or hardware failure occurs, the system will accordingly restart exactly at the same location where it had been interrupted.
Events which trigger back-up of the operating status are:
The file is then in a machine format which can only be read by the unit and does not occupy more than 64 octets.
The number and type of active tasks are indicated to scheduler (12) by execution of the selection management module SPMM whose flowchart is shown in
Consequently, if test (61) on the queue determines that selections are waiting, when a customer chooses a title he wishes to hear, it is automatically written in a queue file of the system on hard disk.
Thus, any selection made will never be lost in case of an electrical failure. The system plays (reproduces) the selection in its entirety before removing it from the queue file.
When the selection has been reproduced in its entirety, it is removed from the queue file and written in the system statistics file with the date and time of purchase as well as the date and time at which it was played.
Immediately after transfer of the completed selection to the statistics file, the device checks if there are others in the queue file. If there is another, the device begins immediately to play the selection.
Processing continues with test (65) conducted to determine if the selection contains an audio scenario. If yes, at stage (651) this scenario is written in the task queue of scheduler (12). If not, or after this entry, processing is continued by test (66) to determine if the selection contains moving images. If yes, the video scenario is written at stage (661) in the task queue of scheduler (12). If no or if yes after this entry, processing is continued by test (64) to determine if the selection contains still graphics. If yes, at stage (641) this graphic presentation scenario is written in the task queue of scheduler (12). If no or if yes after this entry, processing is continued by test (63) to determine if the selection contains an advertising scenario. If yes, at stage (631) the scenario is written in the task queue of scheduler (12). Thus scheduler (12) notified of uncompleted tasks can manage the progression of tasks simultaneously.
Due on the one hand to the task management mode assigning highest orders of priority to video tasks requiring the most resources, on the other hand to the presence of hardware or software buffers assigned to each of the tasks to temporarily store data, the presence of status buffers relating to each task, and communication between each device and a server via the computer network, it is possible to transfer costly resources necessary for certain tasks of devices (8) to single central unit (9) which also has a multitask operating system.
A basic server (9) is designed to service a local network having up to eight customer jukeboxes. With addition of appropriate peripherals, such as supplementary hard disks, one server can serve a maximum of 8 additional jukeboxes. To add more jukeboxes, it is possible to create local network environments which have several servers which share tasks. Thus it is possible to create environments capable of meeting any need.
A completely equipped server has sufficient resources to administer 16 jukeboxes. A server can support up to 7 disks which can contain as many selections as there is available space needed for the type of selection, with the knowledge that an audio selection and its graphic part require 3.4125 Mbits of available disk space, and an audio and video selection requires 39.568 Mbits of available disk space.
In order to circumvent these limitations and meet the needs of establishments such as hotel complexes which sometimes have several hundred rooms, it is possible to use mass storage technologies such as RAID to back up the selections and/or network configurations with multiple servers in order to serve the jukeboxes.
It is also possible to add additional telecommunications peripherals (41) such as modems in order to satisfy the network's additional needs for telecommunications to the outside.
The network allows the server to assume responsibility for carrying out several tasks common to each jukebox in order to avoid redundancy of work, computer operations and equipment.
The local network also serves as an important link between all the jukeboxes by making connections which allow all data common to all the jukeboxes to be kept and made accessible to each of them.
The common data kept on a server are either audio/video selections or statistics of use of the purchases of each jukebox, or statistics on the audio/video selections.
The jukebox or audiovisual device (8) on the one hand has no telecommunications peripherals because the latter are centralized at server (9), but it does make requests to server (9) which processes them as a priority; on the other hand, it does not have the disk space required to store audio/video selections, since the selections are centralized at server (9) so that they may be shared with all the jukeboxes of the local network.
Network jukebox (8) needs very little permanent storage space, since all data will now be centralized, allowing units without hard disks to be produced and thus reducing maintenance by eliminating those parts most likely to break down. In jukebox (8) without a hard disk, a permanent memory region contains the information and an operating program necessary to make connections with the server and start-up the jukebox operating system.
This permanent memory can be in the form of an EEPROM, static memory banks which are backed up by batteries or even cards called HARD CARDS which are static memory banks backed up by batteries with functions allowing the tasks of a hard disk to be cloned.
The operating system of jukebox module (8) is assured of having the resources necessary to do its work. To do this it must manage the status of links with centralized peripherals and if necessary make requests to the server requesting that the appropriate connections be made between the jukebox and the required peripheral. If the resources, for example, telecommunications resources, are not in use by a jukebox, then server (9) will provide exclusive links to the jukebox.
Once the connection has been made, jukebox (8) can do its work as if the resource were its own. Once the jukebox (8) finishes its work, it sends a request to the server to be disconnected from the resource, thus making it available for other jukeboxes (8) in the network.
The order and logic used to provide distribution and access privileges to the ordered resources are controlled by the network operating system which is on server (9).
Thus a switching device such as a hardware or software key allows the network operator to decide whether server (9) shall play the same selection on all devices (8) of the network or to let each device (8) play a different selection. In this latter case, hard disk resources will be accessed time-shared between each device (8), since buffers (56, 57; 66, 67) of each device (8) have sufficient capacity to await subsequent access without there being discontinuity in the audio or visual representation.
Moreover, the multitask operating system, which includes a library containing a set of tools and services, considerably facilitates operation due to its integration in the memory storage and the resulting high degree of flexibility. In particular, this allows a multimedia environment to be created by simply and efficiently managing audio reproduction, video or graphics display, and video animation. In addition, since the audiovisual data are digitized and stored in the server's storage alone, the cost of the network is considerably reduced.
Likewise, transfer of hardware necessary for the telecommunications function of each device (8) on the network server greatly reduces the cost and by using a computer network with a transmission speed of 100 Mbit/s makes it possible to serve simultaneously at least eight devices which can all simultaneously reproduce a different video animation piece on each of the devices, with the knowledge that each video animation requiring a transmission speed of 10 Mbit/s.
This would not have been possible with the ISDN network of patent WO 94/15416, with a transmission speed which is on the order of 1 Mbit/s, insufficient even for video animation. The same applies to any other line for long distance data transmission.
Any modification by one skilled in the art is likewise part of the invention. Thus, regarding buffers, it should be remembered that they can be present either physically in the circuit to which they are assigned or implemented by software by reserving storage space in the system memory.
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|Cooperative Classification
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Kant: Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals / Edition 2by Christine M. Korsgaard
The revised edition of the Cambridge translation of one of the most powerful texts in the history of ethical thought.See more details below
The revised edition of the Cambridge translation of one of the most powerful texts in the history of ethical thought.
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Preface to the revised edition; Introduction; Chronology; Further reading; Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals; Preface; 1. Transition from common to philosophical moral rational cognition; 2. Transition from popular moral philosophy to the metaphysics of morals; 3. Transition from the metaphysics of morals to the critique of pure practical reason; Notes; Selected glossary; Index.
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After trying to help Benjamin Pearl, an undernourished, nearly feral eleven-year-old boy living in the Montana wilderness, social worker Pete Snow comes face-to-face with the boy's profoundly disturbed father, Jeremiah. With courage and caution, Pete slowly earns a measure of trust from this paranoid survivalist itching for a final conflict that will signal the coming End Times.
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