File conversion and sharing system and the method of the same

• US 20060036610A1
• Filed: 08/11/2005
• Published: 02/16/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 08/13/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Reallusion, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Reallusion, Inc.
• Inventors: Wang, Wen-Jiunn
• Application Number:
  US11/201,149
• Publication Number:
  US 20060036610A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/40 of multimedia data, e.g. slideshows comprising image and additional audio data retrieval of still image data G06F16/50; retrieval of audio data G06F16/60; retrieval of video data G06F16/70
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/48 Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9577 Optimising the visualization of content, e.g. distillation of HTML documents

Abstract

The present invention discloses file conversion and sharing system and the method of the same, specifically file conversion and sharing system and method that is able to convert different file formats and transfer the file to different terminal devices (such as a personal computer or a hand-held terminal device) via the Internet. The present invention mainly comprises a terminal device configuration database for storing a plurality of configuration information for different terminal devices, a data conversion module for converting data based on the configuration information in the terminal device configuration database and a storage unit for storing data. The network user can transfer data (or file) with a terminal device to the storage unit of the present invention via Internet, the data conversion module converts the data and stores the data in the storage unit to share the data, when another network user wants to view or download the data using a terminal device, the data conversion module may convert the data properly based on the configuration information of the terminal device stored in the terminal device configuration database, and the converted file may be properly transferred or display on the terminal device.

Claims

1. A file conversion and sharing system, which comprising at least:

a terminal device configuration database for storing a plurality of configuration information of various terminal devices;

a data conversion module for converting data based on the configuration information of a terminal device stored in the terminal device configuration database;

a storage unit for storing user data;

a service integration module with a service application framework for integrating the system with a plurality of services;

a network for providing network linkage and transferring service; and

a terminal device for processing data;

wherein a user can use the terminal device to store data in the storage unit via the network, when other terminal device needs to download or view the data via the network, the data conversion module converts the data based on the configuration information of the other terminal device, then the converted data is transferred or displayed to the other terminal device via the network.

2. The file conversion and sharing system of claim 1, wherein the data conversion module further comprises a content profiling module for analyzing multimedia data for transferring to setup optimal conversion parameters.

3. The file conversion and sharing system of claim 1, wherein the data conversion module further comprises a terminal device profiling module for analyzing the configuration of the destination terminal device to further optimize the conversion parameters provided by the content profiling module.

4. The file conversion and sharing system of claim 1, wherein the terminal device further comprises a terminal device management interface, which comprising:

a terminal device configuration detecting and setting module for detecting and setting the configuration information of the terminal device;

a storage management module for managing the storage units or the terminal device;

a digital media playback module for playing digital media with optimal quality and performance; and

a service integration module with a service application framework for integrating the system with a plurality of services;

5. The file conversion and sharing system of claim 1, wherein the configuration information of various terminal devices can be updated either manually or automatically.

6. The file conversion and sharing system of claim 1, wherein the terminal device can be one of the following devices or the combinations thereof:

desktop computers, notebook computers, workstations, hand-held devices, 2.5G/3G mobile phones, Personal Digital Assistance (PDA) devices and any other device which is able to access network services.

7. The file conversion and sharing system of claim 1, wherein the application service can be a value-added service.

8. The file conversion and sharing system of claim 4, wherein the storage management module can manage and access the storage unit either on the local terminal device or a remote server.

9. The file conversion and sharing system of claim 4, wherein the storage management module is to manage the digital media.

10. The file conversion and sharing system of claim 4, wherein the digital media playback module is capable of playing back various digital files with the formats including text, image, music, video, and audio files and combinations.

11. The file conversion and sharing system of claim 4, wherein the application service can be a value-added service.

12. The file conversion and sharing system of claim 4, wherein the service application framework defines the specification of the application service and the mechanism for integration, a value-added service being developed based on the service application framework can be integrated into the system automatically by the service integration module.

13. A file conversion and sharing method, which comprising at least the following steps:

a) a user uses a terminal device to transfer a multimedia file to a server via a network;

b) the server stores the multimedia file in a storage unit;

c) a content profiling module sets up the optimal parameters according to the result of analyzing the characteristic of the multimedia file and store the parameters to the storage unit;

d) when the user or another user requests to access the multimedia file using the terminal device or another terminal device, a device profiling module analyzes the configuration information of the terminal device or of the another terminal device stored in a terminal device configuration database to obtain the optimal conversion parameters;

e) a data conversion module converts the multimedia data optimally based on the optimal combination of the content profiled and device profiled parameters;

f) the converted multimedia file is transferred to the terminal device via the network for the file storage and playback;

g) when a digital media playback module of the terminal device plays the converted multimedia file, a performance profiling module of the terminal device monitors the performance of the terminal device to adaptively play back the multimedia file according to a performance benchmark.

14. The file conversion and sharing method of claim 14, wherein the terminal device configuration database comprises a plurality of configuration information of various terminal devices, and to update the plural configuration information of various terminal devices can be either manually or automatically.

15. The file conversion and sharing method of claim 14, wherein the terminal device can be one of the following devices or the combinations thereof:

desktop computers, notebook computers, workstations, hand-held devices, 2.5G/3G mobile phones, Personal Digital Assistance (PDA) devices and any other device which is capable of accessing network services.

16. The file conversion and sharing method of claim 14, wherein the multimedia file can be one of the following formats or their combinations:

text, image, music, video and audio.