A RECONFIGURABLE AUDIOVISUAL PREVIEWING SYSTEM AND METHOD OF OPERATION

摘要

A reconfigurable audiovisual previewing system (100) includes a user interfacemodule (110), a media communications module (120),and a plurality of application programs (200). One of the plurality ofapplications programs (200) is selected and configures the interfacemodule to identify the product of interest. The selected application programalso configures the media communications module to transmit,in response to the product's identification, a request for related productinformation stored in a multimedia server (460), and to receive andplay the product information retrieved from said multimedia file server (460)in response to said transmitted request.