Method for displaying image data

• US 20070208880A1
• Filed: 05/04/2007
• Published: 09/06/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 11/04/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Swisscom AG (Government of Switzerland)
• Original Assignee: Swisscom Mobile AG (Government of Switzerland)
• Inventors: Lauper, Eric, Layani, Frederic
• Application Number:
  US11/800,179
• Publication Number:
  US 20070208880A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/246
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72406 by software upgrading or downloading
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72427 for supporting games or graphical animations
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72454 according to context-related or environment-related conditions
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/12 including a sensor for measuring a physical value, e.g. temperature or motion telephones including GPS signal receivers H04M2250/10
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/4878 Advertisement messages

Abstract

The invention relates to a method for displaying an image (3) or image data. The image (3) or the image data is/are adapted according to parameters established in the user device (1) and are displayed in the display (2) of the user device (1). The parameters can, for example, be dependent on the following variables or are determined by one or a combination of these variables: location or use of the user device (1), use of a service associated with the user device (1); time, date, time of day or season or a sensor (5) located inside the user device (1). The invention also relates to a hypertext server (8) with a dynamic page containing the image (3) or the image data.

Claims

1. Method for displaying images or image data in the display of a plurality of user devices, the method having the following method steps:

an image or image data is/are adapted individually to each user without the user'"'"'s intervention on the basis of at least one automatically determined parameter, and

displayed in the display of the user device of said user,

wherein the image or the image data is/are downloaded and displayed depending on parameters determined automatically from a server.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein as said image or image data, a logo or background image, i.e. a word and/or figurative mark or the logo of a company or company-specific products, names, advertisements or representations are displayed.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein at least one automatically determined parameter is transmitted from the user device to a hypertext server.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the image or image data is/are available on a hypertext page and a different image is displayed to different users that download and look at the same page.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the hypertext page is available on a hypertext server and the hypertext server generates an image or image data by accessing a database or another server in which at least part of the image is available.

6. The method of claim 4, wherein a further image, image data or parts thereof is/are stored in the user device and the downloaded hypertext page is completed individually in the user device with the stored image, image data or parts thereof.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the images, image data or parts thereof are combined with a graphical interface of an application software or with elements of the graphical user interface of the user device.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the image or the image data is/are adapted on the basis of

location or use of the user device,

use of a service associated with the user device,

time, date, time of day or season,

or a sensor located inside the user device or connected with the user device and recording data outside the mobile device, or

on the basis of a combination of said variables.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein only parts, the colors or the design of the same image or image data are changed or adapted.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein at least part of an image uses animated image data such as cartoons or comics.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein the image or the image data are changed or adapted randomly, depending on said parameters.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein the image or image data are changed on the basis of a profile set by the user.

13. The method of claim 1, wherein the image or image data are changed depending on the kind of user device.

14. The method of claim 1, wherein the image or image data contain at least partly images that have been recorded by a camera contained in the user device.

15. The method of claim 1, wherein an image or image data are selected by the user from a list.

16. The method of claim 1, wherein the user of the user device is informed by a provider about new images.

17. The method of claim 1, wherein the image or image data are displayed only in rest periods during which the user does not access any function or service.

18. The method of claim 1, wherein as user device a mobile device, preferably a mobile telephone, a portable computer, a game terminal or a PDA is used.

19. The method of claim 1, wherein a mode in which the displaying of the image or image data is changed or adapted according to claim 1 is switched on or off in the user device.

20. Hypertext server with at least one dynamic page containing an image or image data, where the image or the image data are adapted individually to each user on the basis of at least one automatically determined parameter.

21. The hypertext server of claim 20, wherein the dynamic page as said image or image data contains a logo or background image, i.e. a word and/or figurative mark or the logo of a company or company-specific products, names, advertisements or representations.

22. The hypertext server of claim 20, wherein the image or image data of the dynamic page can be adapted on the basis of

location or use of the user device,

use of a service associated with the user device,

time, date, time of day or season,

or a sensor located inside the user device or connected with the user device and recording data outside the mobile device, or

on the basis of a combination of said variables.

23. The hypertext server of claim 20, wherein the hypertext server is connected with a database or another server in which at least part of the image or image data is available.