A client/server multimedia system and method

• US 20080028087A1
• Filed: 07/28/2006
• Published: 01/31/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 07/28/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Vicotel Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Vicotel Incorporated
• Inventors: Chen, Yin-Ju, Chang, Su-Yuan
• Application Number:
  US11/460,760
• Publication Number:
  US 20080028087A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/230
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/61 for supporting one-way streaming services, e.g. Internet radio
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/565 Conversion or adaptation of application format or content adding application control or application functional data H04L67/561
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/5651 Reducing the amount or size of exchanged application data

Abstract

A client/server multimedia system and method are disclosed. The client/server multimedia system and method comprise a remote control and a controlled computer. The controlled computer sends a multimedia data to the remote control according to the operations of the users sent from the remote control, and then the remote control plays the multimedia data or resends the multimedia data to a DVD player, a TV, or a computer, etc. Besides, the remote control may send the audio, the video, or e-mail of the users to the controlled computer, and then the controlled computer resends the audio, the video, or the e-mail of the users to a remote computer over the network.

Claims

1. A client/server multimedia system, comprising:

a control client for sending a first signal according to a first wireless protocol and playing a multimedia data received according to a second wireless protocol, wherein said control client comprising;

a user interface for recording the operations of users;

a first interpreter for translating said operations of users into said first signal;

a first sending means for sending said first signal according to said first wireless protocol;

a first receiving means for receiving a second signal according to said second wireless protocol;

a playing means for playing said multimedia data;

a multimedia server for receiving said first signal according to said first wireless protocol and sending said second signal according to said second wireless protocol, wherein said multimedia server comprising;

a second receiving means for receiving said first signal according to said first wireless protocol;

a retrieving means for retrieving said multimedia data over said network according to said first signal, wherein said multimedia data is received from a remote computer;

a second interpreter for translating said multimedia data into said second signal; and

a second sending means for sending said second signal according to said second wireless protocol.

2. A client/server multimedia system of claim 1, wherein said first signal is sent by infrared ray and said second signal is sent by radio.

3. A client/server multimedia system of claim 1, wherein said first signal is analog and said second signal is digital.

4. A client/server multimedia system of claim 1, wherein said first protocol and said second protocol are the same.

5. A client/server multimedia system of claim 1, wherein said user interface is a keyboard with a plurality of bottoms, wherein said operations of users is generating whenever each of said bottoms is pressed.

6. A client/server multimedia system of claim 1, wherein said playing means comprises a display and a speaker for playing said multimedia data.

7. A client/server multimedia system of claim 1, wherein said multimedia data is retrieved over the VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) protocol over said network.

8. A client/server multimedia system of claim 1, wherein said multimedia data is retrieved over the VoIM (Voice over Instant Messenger) protocol, wherein said retrieving means performing a instant messenger program for retrieving said multimedia data over said VoIM protocol from another instant messenger program performed on said remote computer.

9. A client/server multimedia system of claim 1, wherein said multimedia server performs a program according to said first signal over said VoIM protocol or said VoIP protocol.

10. A client/server multimedia system of claim 1, wherein said control client further comprises a repeater for sending said multimedia data by a third wireless protocol.

11. A client/server multimedia system of claim 9, further comprising a playing device for playing said multimedia data received from said control client by said third wireless protocol.

12. A client/server multimedia system of claim 11, wherein said playing device is combined with said control client.

13. A client/server multimedia system of claim 1, wherein said control client further comprises a recording means for recording said multimedia data and sending said multimedia data to said first interpreter, wherein said multimedia data is the audio of the users or the video of the users.

14. A client/server multimedia system of claim 13, wherein said multimedia data is encrypted/decrypted by said control client or said multimedia server.

15. A client/server multimedia system of claim 13, wherein said multimedia data is compressed/decompressed by said control client or said multimedia server.

16. A client/server multimedia system of claim 1, wherein said first signal and said second signal are sent by an analog or a digital way as infrared ray, radio, WiFi, BlueTooth, ZigBee, or Internet.

17. A method for providing a client/server multimedia system with a multimedia server and a control client, comprising:

recording the operations of users by said control client;

translating said operations of users into a first signal by said control client;

sending said first signal to a multimedia server directly via a first wireless protocol by said control client;

receiving said first signal by said multimedia server;

retrieving a multimedia data over a network according to said first signal by said multimedia server, wherein said multimedia data is received from a remote computer;

translating said multimedia data into said second signal by said multimedia server;

sending said second signal via a second wireless protocol by said multimedia server;

receiving said second signal by said control client; and

playing said multimedia data by said control client.

18. A method for providing a client/server multimedia system of claim 17, wherein said first signal is analog and said second signal is digital.

19. A method for providing a client/server multimedia system of claim 17, wherein said first signal is sent by infrared ray and said second signal is sent by radio.

20. A method for providing a client/server multimedia system of claim 17, wherein said first protocol and said second protocol are the same.

21. A method for providing a client/server multimedia system of claim 17, wherein said multimedia data is retrieved over the VoIP protocol over said network.

22. A method for providing a client/server multimedia system of claim 17, wherein said multimedia data is retrieved over the VoIM protocol, wherein said multimedia server performs a instant messenger program for retrieving said multimedia data over said VoIM protocol from another instant messenger program performed on said remote computer.

23. A method for providing a client/server multimedia system of claim 17, wherein said multimedia server performs a program according to said first signal over said VoIM protocol or said VoIP protocol.

24. A method for providing a client/server multimedia system of claim 17, further comprising a sending step, wherein said sending step is for sending said multimedia data according to a third wireless protocol by said control client.

25. A method for providing a client/server multimedia system of claim 24, further comprising a playing step, wherein said playing step is for playing said multimedia data by a playing device, wherein said multimedia data is received from said control client according to said third protocol.

26. A method for providing a client/server multimedia system of claim 28, wherein said playing device is combined with said control client.

27. A method for providing a client/server multimedia system of claim 17, further comprising a recording step, wherein said recording step is for recording said multimedia data for translating said multimedia data into said first signal by said control client, wherein said multimedia data is the audio of the users or the video of the users.

28. A method for providing a client/server multimedia system of claim 27, further comprising an encrypting/decrypting step, wherein said encrypting/decrypting step is for encrypting/decrypting said multimedia data by said control client or said multimedia server.

29. A method for providing a client/server multimedia system of claim 27, further comprising a compressing/decompressing step, wherein said compressing/decompressing step is for compressing/decompressing said multimedia data by said multimedia.

30. A method for providing a client/server multimedia system of claim 17, wherein said first signal and said second signal are sent by an analog or a digital way as infrared ray, radio, WiFi, BlueTooth, ZigBee, or Internet.