Marking and/or sharing media stream in the cellular network terminal

• US 20060161872A1
• Filed: 12/28/2005
• Published: 07/20/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 12/30/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Nokia Corporation
• Original Assignee: Nokia Corporation
• Inventors: Rytivaara, Markku, Karukka, Minna, Mustonen, Mika
• Application Number:
  US11/321,655
• Publication Number:
  US 20060161872A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/864
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/58 Message adaptation for wireless communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72439 for image or video messaging
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/06 Optimizing the usage of the radio link, e.g. header compression, information sizing , discarding information system modifying transmission characteristic according to link quality by modifying frame length H04L1/0007; dynamic adaptation of the packet size for flow control or congestion control H04L47/365
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/12 Messaging; Mailboxes; Announcements

Abstract

A media clip is marked (156) in a wireless terminal (10) and transmitted further (164) to another wireless terminal (10) in which the marked media stream is received (182) and presented (194) according to the marking (156). A wireless network terminal (10) is shown applying the method, and a programmable means (14, 15, 16, 34, 35) usukkystrated in the wireless network terminal (10) to implement the method. A basis for marking (156) is a playhead position (23, 23a, 23b) which indicates progress of a media clip on a display (11) of the wireless terminal (10), and an end moment of the media clip when the media clip was stopped. This information is associated to playhead information which forms the basis for the marking (156) and reassemblying (184) a media data message (41) before sending it and after receiving it over a wireless network (50).

Claims

1. Method for sending at least one playhead information in a wireless network (50), where at least one media message (41) comprising media data (44, 46) and a metadata (42) is transferred, at least one playhead (23, 23a, 23b) indicating progress of at least one media data presentation on the wireless terminal (10), wherein the method comprises steps of

stopping (154) presentation of said media data presentation and said playhead (23, 23a, 23b) on the wireless terminal (10),

reading a position of said playhead (23, 23a, 23b) and a freezed-frame of said media data presentation (10),

marking (156) a position of said playhead (23, 23a, 23b) and a freezed-frame to be identified by a playhead information,

inserting (158) the playhead information to the metadata (42), and

sending further (164) the media message (41) comprising at least one playhead information from the wireless terminal (10).

2. Method according to claim 1, wherein

combining at least one position of the playhead (23, 23a, 23b) and at least one corresponding freezed-frame of the media data presentation together to form at least one combination, and

associating a playhead information to said at least one combination in such a way that said at least one combination is identified by the playhead information.

3. Method according to claim 2, wherein the step of combining further comprises combining a source location (10, 60, 70, 80) of said media data presentation to said combination in such a way that said combination and the source location (10, 60, 70, 80) is identified by the playhead information.

4. Method according to claim 3, wherein the source location (10, 60, 70, 80) is indicated by one of the following source location information:

IP address, phone number and point-to-point network.

5. Method according to claim 2, wherein the step of combining further comprises combining file information characterizing the media data presentation to said combination in such a way that said combination and file information is identified by the playhead information.

6. Method according to claim 5, wherein the file information comprises at least one of the following information about the media data presentation:

file size, format, duration.

7. Method according to claim 1, wherein the step of sending (158) further comprises sending the media message (41) comprising the playhead information and the media data presentation.

8. Method according to claim 1, wherein

combining at least one first position of the playhead (23, 23a, 23b) and at least one corresponding freezed-frame of a first media data presentation together to form at least one combination,

adding (172) a second media data presentation to said at least one combination,

associating a playhead information to said at least one combination and said second media data presentation in such a way that said at least one combination and the second media presentation are identified by the playhead information, and

sending further (164) the media message comprising the playhead information and the second media data presentation.

9. Method according to claim 8, wherein the second media presentation comprises preferably one of the following media data:

text, image, voice and audio.

10. Method according to claim 1, wherein the media message (41) comprising at least one playhead information is a short text message, preferably a short messaging service (SMS) message.

11. Method according to claim 1, wherein the media message (41) comprising at least one playhead information is a multimedia service (MMS) message.

12. Method according to claim 1, wherein the media message (41) comprising at least one playhead information is an electronic mail message.

13. Method according to claim 1, wherein the media message (41) comprising at least one playhead information is a voice mail message.

14. Method according to claim 1, wherein the media message (41) comprising at least one playhead information is transmitted via a short range connection, preferably a Bluetooth connection.

15. Method according to claim 1, wherein the playhead (23, 23a, 23b) indicates graphically or numerically an instantaneous position of a media data presentation in relation to a timeline (20) of said media data presentation, while running on a wireless terminal (10).

16. Method according to claim 1, wherein the media data presentation is in at least one of the following formats:

text, image, speech, voice, audio, video and animation.

40. A programmable software product residing in storage means, wherein the software product stored in a memory unit (35) of a wireless terminal (10) is arranged to implement the method according to claim 1 and a method for receiving as well, comprising the steps of

receiving (182) on the wireless terminal (10) at least one media message (41) comprising media data (44, 46) and a metadata (42),

identifying (184) at least one playhead information from said metadata (42),

reassemblying (186) said at least one media message (41) to at least one media data presentation according to said playhead information, and

presenting (194) said at least one media data presentation according to said playhead information.

17. A wireless terminal (10) for sending and receiving at least one playhead information, said wireless terminal (10) comprising means for sending (31, 33) at least one media data message and means for receiving (31, 32) at least one media data message, said media data message comprising media data (44, 46) and a metadata (42), means for indicating (11) at least one playhead (23, 23a, 23b) progressing along a media data presentation and programmable selecting members (14, 15, 16) for controlling said playhead (23, 23a, 23b) and said at least one media data presentation, wherein the wireless terminal (10) comprises

means for stopping (14, 15, 16, 36) presentation of said media data presentation and said playhead (23, 23a, 23b),

means for marking (14, 15, 34, 35) a position of said playhead (23, 23a, 23b) and a freezed-frame of the media data presentation to be identified by a playhead information, and means for reassemblying (14, 15, 34, 35) at least one media message (41) to at least one media data presentation according to said playhead information,

means for inserting (14, 15, 34, 35) the playhead information to the metadata (42), and means for identifying (14, 15, 34, 35) the playhead information to the metadata (42)

means for sending (14, 15, 16, 33) and receiving (14, 15, 16, 32) the media message (41) comprising at least one playhead information from the wireless terminal (10), and

means for starting (14, 15, 16, 36) presentation of said media data presentation and said playhead (23, 23a, 23b) according to said playhead information.

18. Wireless terminal (10) according to claim 17, comprising

means for combining (14, 15, 34, 35) at least one position of the playhead (23, 23a, 23b) and at least one corresponding freezed-frame of the media data presentation together arranged to form at least one combination, and

means for associating (14, 15, 16, 34, 35) a playhead information to said at least one combination in such a way that said at least one combination is arranged to be identified by the playhead information.

19. Wireless terminal (10) according to claim 18, comprising means for combining (14, 15, 34, 35) a source location (10, 60, 70, 80) of said media data presentation to said combination in such a way that said combination and the source location (10, 60, 70, 80) is arranged to be identified by the playhead information.

20. Wireless terminal (10) according to claim 18, comprising means for combining (14, 15, 34, 35) file information characterising the media data presentation to said combination in such a way that said combination and file information is identified by the playhead information.

21. Wireless terminal (10) according to claim 18, comprising means for adding (14, 15, 34, 35) a second media data presentation to said at least one combination.

22. Wireless terminal (10) according to claim 17, wherein a wireless terminal (10) is one of the following:

a mobile station, communicator, multimedia terminal, video phone, camera phone and the like portable handheld device.

23. Wireless terminal (10) according to claim 17, wherein indicating means (113, 116) are arranged to indicate the playhead (23, 23a, 23b) graphically or numerically as an instantaneous position of a media data presentation in relation to a timeline (20) of said media data presentation, while running on a display unit (11).

24. Wireless terminal (10) according to claim 17, wherein the wireless terminal (10) is arranged to transmit and receive the media message (41) comprising at least one playhead information which media message (41) is one of the following:

a short text message, preferably a short messaging service (SMS) message, a multimedia service (MMS) message, an electronic mail message and a voice mail message.

25. Wireless terminal (10) according claim 17, wherein the wireless terminal (10) is arranged to transmit and receive the media message (41) comprising at least one playhead information via a short range connection, preferably a Bluetooth connection.

26. Method for receiving at least one playhead information in a wireless network (50), where at least one playhead (23, 23a, 23b) is indicating progress of at least one media data presentation on the wireless terminal (10), wherein the method comprises steps of

receiving (182) on the wireless terminal (10) at least one media message (41) comprising media data (44, 46) and a metadata (42),

identifying (184) at least one playhead information from said metadata (42),

reassemblying (186) said at least one media message (41) to at least one media data presentation according to said playhead information, and

presenting (194) said at least one media data presentation according to said playhead information.

27. Method according to claim 26, wherein the step of identifying (184) comprises further reading said at least one playhead information and identifying a combination of at least one position of playhead (23, 23a, 23b) and at least one corresponding freezed-frame of at least one media data presentation from said at least one playhead information.

28. Method according to claim 27, wherein the step of reassemblying (186) comprises further reconstructing from said combination the media data presentation by synchronizing together said position of playhead (23, 23a, 23b) and said corresponding freezed-frame of said media data presentation.

29. Method according to claim 26, wherein the further step of identifying (188) comprises identifying from said combination a source location (10, 60, 70, 80) of said at least one media data presentation.

30. Method according to claim 29, wherein the step of connecting (186) comprises initiating access to the identified source location (10, 60, 70, 80) and search of a file of the corresponding media data presentation.

31. Method according to claim 26, wherein the step of presenting (194) comprises a step of presenting a second media data presentation together at least one first media data presentation according to the first playhead information, said second media data presentation being added to the same media message comprising said first playhead information.

32. Method according to claim 31, wherein the second media presentation comprises preferably one of the following media data:

text, image, voice and audio.

33. Method according to claim 31, wherein the first and second media data presentations are performed simultaneously.

34. Method according to claim 26, wherein the step of presenting (194) comprises a step of starting at least one media data presentation from at least one position of said playhead (23, 23a, 23b).

35. Method according to claim 26, wherein a first position of playhead (23a) indicates a starting point of the media data presentation and a second position of playhead (23, 23a, 23b) indicates a stopping point of the media data presentation.

36. Method according to claim 26, wherein the media data presentation is in at least one of the following formats:

text, image, speech, voice, audio, video and animation.

37. Programmable means stored in a wireless terminal (10) for processing at least one playhead information while sending and receiving a media data message (41), a playhead (23, 23a, 23b) indicating progress of a media data presentation on the wireless terminal (10), wherein the programmable means comprise

means for stopping (14, 15, 16, 36) presentation of said media data presentation and said playhead (23, 23a, 23b),

means for marking (14, 15, 34, 35) a position of said playhead (23, 23a, 23b) and a freezed-frame of the media data presentation to be identified by a playhead information, and means for reassemblying (14, 15, 34, 35) at least one media message (41) to at least one media data presentation according to said playhead information,

means for inserting (14, 15, 34, 35) the playhead information to the metadata (42), and means for identifying (14, 15, 34, 35) the playhead information to the metadata (42)

means for sending (14, 15, 16, 33) and receiving (14, 15, 16, 32) the media message (41) comprising at least one playhead information from the wireless terminal (10), and

means for starting (14, 15, 16, 36) presentation of said media data presentation and said playhead (23, 23a, 23b) according to said playhead information.

38. Programmable means stored in a wireless terminal (10) according to claim 37, comprising

at least means for combining (14, 15, 34, 35) at least one position of the playhead (23, 23a, 23b) and at least one corresponding freezed-frame of the media data presentation together arranged to form at least one combination, and

means for associating (14, 15, 16, 34, 35) a playhead information to said at least one combination in such a way that said at least one combination is arranged to be identified by the playhead information.

39. Programmable means stored in a wireless terminal (10) according to claim 38, comprising means for combining (14, 15, 34, 35) a source location (10, 60, 70, 80) of said media data presentation to said combination in such a way that said combination and the source location (10, 60, 70, 80) is arranged to be identified by the playhead information.