Electronic wireless hand held multimedia device

• US 10,182,144 B2
• Filed: 02/14/2017
• Issued: 01/15/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 06/27/2000
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Mesa Digital LLC (Ortiz & Lopez PLLC)
• Original Assignee: Mesa Digital LLC (Ortiz & Lopez PLLC)
• Inventors: Ortiz, Luis M., Lopez, Kermit D.
• Primary Examiner(s): Elahee, Md S
• Application Number:
  US15/432,597
• Publication Number:
  US 20170230498A1
• Time in Patent Office: 700 Days
• Field of Search: 379 8813, 37914205, 379903, 379908, 379915, 379916, 455410-4121, 705 1464, 3423571, 702159, 370329
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/102 Bill distribution or payments
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/322 Aspects of commerce using mobile devices [M-devices]
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 9/00674 with switch-buttons
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/14 Two-way operation using the same type of signal, i.e. duplex
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/083 using passwords cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication using a predetermined code H04L9/3226
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0861 using biometrical features, e.g. fingerprint, retina-scan cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication using biological data H04L9/3231
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/102 Entity profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/04 specially adapted for terminals or networks with limited capabilities; specially adapted for terminal portability
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1095 Replication or mirroring of data, e.g. scheduling or transport for data synchronisation between network nodes
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/289 Intermediate processing functionally located close to the data consumer application, e.g. in same machine, in same home or in same sub-network
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/568 Storing data temporarily at an intermediate stage, e.g. caching
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/329 in the application layer [OSI layer 7]
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/026 Details of the structure or mounting of specific components
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72403 with means for local support of applications that increase the functionality
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72469 for operating the device by selecting functions from two or more displayed items, e.g. menus or icons
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/22 including a touch pad, a touch sensor or a touch detector digitizers for touch screens G06F3/041
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/68 : Gesture-dependent or behaviour-dependent
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 : Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/024 : Guidance services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/80 : Services using short range communication, e.g. near-field communication [NFC], radio-frequency identification [RFID] or low energy communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/02 : Terminal devices

Abstract

An electronic wireless hand held multimedia device includes a microprocessor and more than one wireless transceiver modules enabling wireless communications over a variety of standards, including Cellular (e.g., GSM, CDMA, GPRS, 3G), 802.11 (e.g., WLAN), and short range (e.g., Bluetooth, infrared, RFID) for the retrieval, processing, and delivery of multimedia data to/from remote data resources (e.g., Internet, servers). The hand held device can include any of: a touch sensitive display screen configured to display multimedia data including video, text, GPS maps, and accept user input: a cartridge reader configured to exchange data with an electronic cartridge; a GPS module configured to operate with mapping resources and provide location information and GPS mapping; a mobile payment module enabling mobile payments via a variety of billing arrangements; a security module enabling protected data management and communications security; a video camera enabling the capture, storage, processing, and transmission of video and pictures.

Claims

1. An electronic wireless hand held multimedia device, comprising:

at least one of a wireless unit supporting bi-directional data communications of data including video and text for the electronic wireless hand held multimedia device with remote data resources over cellular telecommunications networks, over wireless local area networks, and over a direct wireless connection with electronic devices located within short range using short range RF (Radio Frequency) communications;

a touch sensitive display screen configured to display the data including said video and text received by the electronic wireless hand held multimedia device by selecting a particular data represented by a soft button graphically displayed on the touch sensitive display screen of the multimedia device;

a microprocessor configured to facilitate operation of and communications by the electronic wireless hand held multimedia device;

a video camera enabling the capture of video and pictures;

an image processing unit configured to process the video and pictures captured by the video camera for display on the touch sensitive display screen;

a GPS module configured to operate with mapping resources and provide location information and mapping information data for and/or with respect to the electronic wireless hand held multimedia device wherein the mapping information data is rendered on the touch sensitive display screen as GPS maps; and

a security module accessible by the microprocessor to enable protected data access, management and communications security.

2. The electronic wireless hand held multimedia device of claim 1 wherein said electronic wireless hand held multimedia device comprises a smartphone.

3. The electronic wireless hand held multimedia device of claim 1 wherein said electronic wireless hand held multimedia device comprises a tablet computing device.

4. The electronic wireless hand held multimedia device of claim 1 wherein said telecommunications networks comprises at least one of a CDMA network, a TDMA network, a GSM network, or a GPRS network.

5. The electronic wireless hand held multimedia device of claim 1 further comprising SRAM (Static RAM) that communicates electronically with said microprocessor and comprises a writeable memory.

6. The electronic wireless hand held multimedia device of claim 1 wherein short range using short range RF communications comprise Bluetooth communications.

7. The electronic wireless hand held multimedia device of claim 1, further comprising a cartridge reader configured to transfer data with an electronic cartridge.

8. The electronic wireless hand held multimedia device of claim 1, further comprising a mobile payment unit that enables mobile payments via a variety of billing arrangements.

9. The electronic wireless hand held multimedia device of claim 1, further comprising a wireless infrared transceiver supporting bi-directional line-of-site data communications of the electronic wireless hand held multimedia device over an infrared wireless connection with electronic devices located within line-of-sight from the electronic wireless hand held multimedia device.

10. The electronic wireless hand held multimedia device of claim 1 wherein said at least one wireless unit comprises a wireless transceiver.

11. The electronic wireless hand held multimedia device of claim 1 further comprising a TFT active matrix display comprising said touch sensitive display screen.

12. The electronic wireless hand held multimedia device of claim 1 further comprising an LCD (Liquid Crystal Display) comprising said touch sensitive display screen.

13. The electronic wireless hand held multimedia device of claim 1 wherein said electronic cartridge comprises a smart card comprising a credit-card sized plastic card with an embedded computer chip.

14. The electronic wireless hand held multimedia device of claim 1 wherein said embedded computer chip comprises a microprocessor with internal memory or a memory chip with non-programmable logic.

15. The electronic wireless hand held multimedia device of claim 14 wherein a chip connection associated with said smart card comprising said embedded computer chip comprises a direct physical contact or remotely through a contactless electromagnetic interface that connects to said electronic wireless hand held multimedia device.

16. The electronic wireless hand held multimedia device of claim 15, further comprising a video camera and an image processing unit, wherein together with the microprocesser enable the capture, storage, processing, display and transmission of video and pictures.

17. An electronic wireless hand held multimedia device, comprising:

at least one of a wireless unit supporting bi-directional data communications of data including video and text for the electronic wireless hand held multimedia device with remote data resources over cellular telecommunications networks, over wireless local area networks, and over a direct wireless connection with electronic devices located within short range using short range RF (Radio Frequency) communications;

a touch sensitive display screen configured to display the data including said video and text received by the electronic wireless hand held multimedia device by selecting a particular data represented by a soft button graphically displayed on the touch sensitive display screen of the multimedia device;

a microprocessor configured to facilitate operation of and communications by the electronic wireless hand held multimedia device;

a GPS module configured to operate with mapping resources and provide location information and mapping information data for and/or with respect to the electronic wireless hand held multimedia device wherein the mapping information data is rendered on the touch sensitive display screen as GPS maps; and

a security module accessible by the microprocessor to enable protected data access, management and communications security.

18. An electronic wireless hand held multimedia device, comprising:

at least one of a wireless unit supporting bi-directional data communications of data including video and text for the electronic wireless hand held multimedia device with remote data resources over cellular telecommunications networks, over wireless local area networks, and over a direct wireless connection with electronic devices located within short range using short range RF (Radio Frequency) communications;

a touch sensitive display screen configured to display the data including said video and text received by the electronic wireless hand held multimedia device by selecting a particular data represented by a soft button graphically displayed on the touch sensitive display screen of the multimedia device;

a microprocessor configured to facilitate operation of and communications by the electronic wireless hand held multimedia device;

a video camera and an image processing unit, together with the microprocessor, enabling the capture, storage, processing, and transmission of video and pictures, and the display of captured video on the touch sensitive display screen;

a GPS module configured to operate with mapping resources and provide location information and mapping information data for and/or with respect to the electronic wireless hand held multimedia device wherein the mapping information data is rendered on the touch sensitive display screen as GPS maps; and

a security module accessible by the microprocessor to enable protected data access, management and communications security.