Method and system for flexible selective broadcasting of instructions to targeted electronic devices using market driven metrics

• US 10,313,530 B2
• Filed: 02/01/2010
• Issued: 06/04/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 04/19/2000
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Oliver Gamble
• Original Assignee: Oliver Gamble
• Inventors: Gamble, Oliver
• Primary Examiner(s): Phan, Joseph T
• Application Number:
  US12/658,000
• Publication Number:
  US 20110274262A1
• Time in Patent Office: 3,410 Days
• Field of Search: 379 8813- 8817, 37920105
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 11/007 with remote control systems remote control in general G08C
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/26216 involving the channel capacity, e.g. network bandwidth admission control, resource allocation in open networks H04L12/5692; flow control in packet networks H04L47/10; establishing a schedule or organising the servicing of application requests taking into account QoS H04L67/61
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4147 PVR [Personal Video Recorder] H04N5/76 takes precedence ; arrangements for broadcast with accumulation-type receivers H04H20/40
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47214 for content reservation or setting reminders; for requesting event notification, e.g. of sport results or stock market stock exchange data over packet-switching network H04L12/1804; push services over packet-switching network H04L12/1859; notification of incoming messages in packet switching networks H04L51/224
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6581 Reference data, e.g. a movie identifier for ordering a movie or a product identifier in a home shopping application

Abstract

A distributive instructions transmission system for the performing a task the can be generated by request of a user. A user initiates the task by transmitting instructions for a chosen task to a remote processing center. The selected task will be acted upon by one several options. The processing center immediately generate instructions that will execute the task, check to see if the task is already requested by other users, or take steps to make possible execution of the task. Execution of the requested task can involve the generation of an enhance subset of user instructions that is transmitted to one or many different processors. If more than one process is involved they can be located in a single site, or be remote to one another. The instructions for each sub-segment task can be routed to the involved processor(s), and they initiate an integrated coordinated action.

Claims

1. A non-transitory and tangible computer readable medium having computer executable software code stored thereon, the code for allowing a remote input terminal user to control the future behavior of at least one remote targeted electrical device via instructions transmitted over a communication system, comprising:

(a) code for enabling a remotely located processing center computers to monitor a communication system for activity;

(b) code for enabling the processing center computers to determine whether incoming data from a remote input terminal contain instructions for controlling a targeted device situated at a location remote to both the remote input terminal and the processing center computers;

(c) code for enabling the processing center computers to accept, process, and store incoming instructions;

(d) code for the processing center computers to determine when to forward instructions collected from the user'"'"'s remote input terminal to a targeted electrical device at a location remote to both the remote input terminal and the processing center computers;

(e) code for enabling the targeted electrical device to validate and accept incoming instructions;

(f) and said instructions being able to control a future behavior of said targeted electrical device.

2. The non-transitory and tangible computer-readable medium of claim 1, wherein the communication system between the remote input terminal and the processing center computers, and the processing center computers and the targeted electrical device can be cable, wired, wireless, satellite, Internet, or a combination of the above mentioned forms of communication.

3. The non-transitory and tangible computer-readable medium of claim 2, wherein information from the remote input terminal contain instructions for controlling a targeted electrical device, a valid user id if needed, identity of the targeted electrical device, and location of the targeted electrical device.

4. The non-transitory and tangible computer-readable medium of claim 3, wherein the remote input terminal can be one of a variety of mobile devices or fixed landline devices capable of convey a user request for the capture or access of a specific media file using one of a variety of input modes such as but not limited to GUI (graphical user Interface), Interactive voice response (IVR), or textural (Fax) to communicate with the processing center computers.

5. The non-transitory and tangible computer-readable medium of claim 4, wherein the user accesses processing center computers to make known what media file(s) they want and when they want the media file(s), and the processing center computers create a set of instructions for the user'"'"'s DVR, instructions that are forwarded to the user'"'"'s DVR via a communication network and said instructions will enable the DVR to capture or access to the media file(s) the user has requested at the requested time.

6. The non-transitory and tangible computer-readable medium of claim 2, wherein the targeted electrical device is an electrical appliance that is electronically continuous with an external receiver of the transmitted instructions from the processing center computers.

7. The non-transitory and tangible computer-readable medium of claim 2, wherein the processing center computers are able to communicate with a media supplier(s) to schedule the download/access of a specific media title file at a specific time and date using specific communication channel(s), in accordance with information exchanged between both the processing center computers and the media supplier(s), the processing center computers will provide instructions to a specified user'"'"'s targeted electrical device for capturing the specified media file as it is conveyed over a plurality of channels.