Systems and methods to remotely synchronize digital data

• US 10,674,191 B2
• Filed: 05/09/2017
• Issued: 06/02/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 04/06/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Minerva Networks, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Minerva Networks, Inc.
• Inventors: Capobianco, Fabrizio, Agro, Leandro
• Primary Examiner(s): Taylor, Joshua D
• Assistant Examiner(s): Imperial, Jaycee
• Application Number:
  US15/731,249
• Publication Number:
  US 20170257652A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,120 Days
• Field of Search: 725116
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2187 Live feed
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/242 Synchronization processes, e.g. processing of PCR [Program Clock References] arrangements for synchronising broadcast or distribution via plural systems in broadcast distribution systems H04H20/18
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4122 additional display device, e.g. video projector digital output for controlling a plurality of local displays G06F3/1423
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4302 Content synchronisation processes, e.g. decoder synchronisation
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/43076 of the same content streams on multiple devices, e.g. when family members are watching the same movie on different devices
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4431 characterized by the use of Application Program Interface [API] libraries
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4788 communicating with other users, e.g. chatting arrangements for providing for computer conferences, e.g. chat rooms, to substation in data switching networks H04L12/1813; distributed application using peer-to-peer [P2P] networks H04L67/104

Abstract

Provided herein are exemplary systems and methods for a “Social Cam” which is a multiple remote picture synchronization tool. Exemplary embodiments may include receiving a name of an event, a list of users, and a template, receiving from a plurality of remote computing devices digital data, each of the remote computing device associated with a user on the list of users, compositing the digital data onto the template, notifying the plurality of remote computing devices about the composited digital data and providing the plurality of remote computing devices with access to the composited digital data.

Claims

1. A method for remote synchronization of digital data, the method comprising:

receiving a name of an event, a list of users, and a template;

receiving digital data from a plurality of remote computing devices, each of the remote computing devices associated with a user on the list of users;

compositing the digital data onto the template;

notifying the plurality of remote computing devices about the digital data composited onto the template;

providing the plurality of remote computing devices with access to the digital data composited onto the template; and

further comprising;

the event being live and being synchronized by a cloud server on the plurality of remote computing devices by scheduled checks based on a computed time interval with the computed time interval between the scheduled checks being doubled compared to a previous check if at the previous check the transmitted event is synchronized on each of the remote computing devices and the scheduled checks being set to a minimum time interval if at the previous check the transmitted event is not synchronized on each of the remote computing devices.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the digital data is transmitted as a stream from each of the plurality of remote computing devices.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the stream comprises the digital data automatically captured by each of the plurality of remote computing devices after receiving a triggering signal.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the triggering signal is initiated by one of the plurality of the remote computing devices.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the digital data is transmitted as a plurality of digital data images.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising capturing audio digital data.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising the compositing of the digital data onto the template within a predefined time limit.

8. The method of claim 7, further comprising identifying a remote computing device unable to transmit the digital data within the predefined time limit and adjusting computing resources available to the identified remote computing device so that it can transmit the digital data within the predefined time limit.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising transmitting the composited digital data to a public display device.

10. The method of claim 6, further comprising transmitting the captured audio digital data to a public address system.

11. The method of claim 10, further comprising continuing to transmit newly received audio digital data after the compositing.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the newly received audio digital data is associated with a performing entity at the event.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein a volume or a magnitude of the newly received audio digital data is represented on the public address system.

14. The method of claim 1, wherein the event is live and being viewed on television by the user on the list of users.

15. The method of claim 1, wherein the digital data comprises a series of images displayed sequentially as a live picture.

16. The method of claim 1, wherein the template is dynamic and includes an advertisement.

17. The method of claim 4, further comprising a Bluetooth®

low energy signal activating a program on one of the plurality of remote computing devices that causes the triggering signal.