Method of distributing a multimedia content for use from a portable device

• US 20030060190A1
• Filed: 09/20/2002
• Published: 03/27/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 09/25/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. (Koninklijke Philips N.V.)
• Original Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. (Koninklijke Philips N.V.)
• Inventors: Mallart, Raoul
• Application Number:
  US10/247,983
• Publication Number:
  US 20030060190A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/414.1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1101 Session protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/04 specially adapted for terminals or networks with limited capabilities; specially adapted for terminal portability
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/12 specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks
• 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 9/40 Network security protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/08 Access point devices
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/182 Network node acting on behalf of an other network entity, e.g. proxy

Abstract

The invention proposes a method of distributing multimedia content (film, games, tourist information) for use on a portable device. The method according to the invention consists of downloading a content to be used from a server (3) to a base station (2), storing the content in a storage memory of the base station, and transmitting the content of the base station to a portable device for using multimedia content (1) for utilization as the transmission progresses. Application: video display in a vehicle on a portable screen.

Claims

1. A wireless communication system comprising at least one server (4) and a mobile terminal (1) for downloading data from said server to said mobile terminal, said mobile terminal comprising a storage memory (31) for storing downloaded data, characterized in that said data constitute a multimedia content,

said mobile terminal comprises a base station (3) and a portable device for using a multimedia content (2), said storage memory being contained in said base station,

said server and said base station comprise a wireless downloading module (32;

41) having a transmission rate sufficient to rapidly download a multimedia content from said server to said base station when said base station is in an area of coverage of said server,

and said base station and said portable device comprise a wireless transmission module (20;

30) having a transmission rate sufficient to transmit to said portable device a multimedia content stored in said storage memory, for use of said multimedia content as said transmission progresses.

2. A wireless communication system as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that said portable device comprises a user interface for selecting a multimedia content to be downloaded.

11. A server (4) intended to be used in a wireless communication system as claimed in claim 1.

3. A base station (3) containing a wireless downloading module (32) for downloading a multimedia content from a server (4) when said base station is situated in an area of coverage of said server, a storage memory (31) for the downloaded multimedia content, and a wireless transmission module (30) for transmitting a multimedia content stored in said storage memory to a portable device for using the multimedia content (2), for use of said multimedia content as the transmission progresses.

4. A vehicle comprising a base station as claimed in claim 3.

5. A portable device for using a multimedia content (2) comprising a wireless transmission module (20) for receiving a multimedia content coming from a base station (3) provided with a storage memory (31) for said multimedia content, for use of said multimedia content as it is received.

6. A portable device as claimed in claim 5, characterized in that it comprises a user interface for selecting a multimedia content to be downloaded from a server to said base station.

7. A method of distributing a multimedia content, characterized in that it comprises a step (B4) of downloading by wireless link said multimedia content from a server (4) to a base station (3), with a view to the storage of said multimedia content in a storage memory (31) of said base station, for subsequent wireless transmission of said multimedia content to a portable device for using multimedia content (2), and use of said multimedia content as said transmission progresses.

8. A method of distributing a multimedia content as claimed in claim 7, characterized in that it comprises a step (B3) of selecting the multimedia content to be downloaded via a user interface of said portable device.

9. A method of distributing a multimedia content as claimed in claim 8, characterized in that it comprises a step (B5) of paying for the multimedia content selected with a view to one or more displays.

10. A method of distributing multimedia content as claimed in claim 7, characterized in that said base station is placed in a vehicle and said server is placed in a service and/or parking area.