Real time video streaming to video enabled communication device, with server based processing and optional control

• US 20080158336A1
• Filed: 10/09/2007
• Published: 07/03/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 10/11/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: CGI Group
• Original Assignee: CGI Group
• Inventors: Paquet, Francois, Boily, Edouard, Benson, Richard, Le Discorde, Carine
• Application Number:
  US11/907,108
• Publication Number:
  US 20080158336A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/14.08
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/00 User-to-user messaging in packet-switching networks, transmitted according to store-and-forward or real-time protocols, e.g. e-mail
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/04 Real-time or near real-time messaging, e.g. instant messaging [IM]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/10 Multimedia information
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1069 Session establishment or de-establishment
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1104 Session initiation protocol [SIP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/613 for the control of the source by the destination control signals issued by the client directed to the server or network components specially adapted for selective content distribution H04N21/637
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/762 at the source reformatting of additional data in video distribution servers H04N21/2355

Abstract

A method, system, device, and computer storage medium for use in communicating a video feed transmitted from a video monitoring device to a video enabled communication device. The video enabled communication device and the video monitoring device communicate via a communication network in a session initiation protocol (SIP) session. In accordance with a SIP initiation path, a SIP session is established between the video monitoring device and the video enabled communication device. After establishing the SIP session, in accordance with a media path between the video monitoring device and the video enabled communication device, a video feed is received from the video monitoring device. The received video feed is transcoded. In accordance with the media path, the transcoded video feed is transmitted to the video enabled communication device.

Claims

1. A method of communicating a video feed transmitted from a video monitoring device to a video enabled communication device, wherein the video enabled communication device and the video monitoring device communicate via a communication network in a session initiation protocol (SIP) session, the method comprising:

establishing, in accordance with a SIP initiation path, a SIP session between the video monitoring device and the video enabled communication device;

after establishing the SIP session, receiving, in accordance with a media path between the video monitoring device and the video enabled communication device, a video feed from the video monitoring device;

transcoding the received video feed; and

transmitting, in accordance with the media path, the transcoded video feed to the video enabled communication device.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the establishing of the SIP session is initiated by the video enabled communication device.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

interpreting dual tone multi-frequency (DTMF) tones received from the video enabled communication device as video monitoring device control for the video monitoring device; and

transmitting the video monitoring device control to the video monitoring device.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the interpreting includes interacting with a media server to translate the DTMF tones to the video monitoring device control for the video monitoring device.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving SIP information packets from the video enabled communication device to the video monitoring device, wherein the SIP information packets include video monitoring device control and indicate the video monitoring device to be controlled; and

transmitting the SIP info packets to the indicated video monitoring device, so that the video monitoring device is controlled.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the transcoding is performed in a transcoding unit at a network infrastructure device routing communications in the media path.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising superimposing additional content into the received video feed, wherein the transcoded video feed which is transmitted to the video enabled communication device includes the additional content.

8. A method of communicating a video feed transmitted from a video monitoring device to a video enabled communication device, wherein the video enabled communication device and the video monitoring device communicate via a communication network in a session initiation protocol (SIP) session, and wherein a sensor communicates via the communication network, the sensor being triggered by a predetermined condition, the method comprising:

establishing in accordance with a SIP initiation path, a SIP session between the video monitoring device and the video enabled communication device, wherein the SIP session is initiated by a sensor being triggered by a predetermined condition;

after establishing the SIP session, receiving, in accordance with a media path between the video monitoring device and the video enabled communication device, a video feed from the video monitoring device; and

transmitting, in accordance with the media path, the received video feed to the video enabled communication device.

9. The method of claim 8, further comprising:

interpreting dual tone multi-frequency (DTMF) tones received from the video enabled communication device as video monitoring device control for the video monitoring device; and

transmitting the video monitoring device control to the video monitoring device.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the interpreting includes interacting with a media server to translate the DTMF tones to the video monitoring device control for the video monitoring device.

11. The method of claim 8, further comprising:

receiving SIP information packets from the video enabled communication device to the video monitoring device, wherein the SIP information packets include video monitoring device control and indicate the video monitoring device to be controlled; and

transmitting the SIP info packets to the indicated video monitoring device, so that the video monitoring device is controlled.

12. The method of claim 8, further comprising transcoding the received video feed, wherein the video feed that is transmitted to the video enabled communication device has been transcoded, wherein the transcoding is performed in a transcoding unit at a network infrastructure device routing communications in the media path.

13. The method of claim 12, further comprising superimposing additional content into the received video feed, wherein the received video feed which is transmitted to the video enabled communication device includes the additional content.

14. A network infrastructure system, wherein the network infrastructure system is included in a session initiation protocol (SIP) media communication path between a video enabled communication device and a video monitoring device, comprising:

a transceiver operable to receive and transmit communications between a video enabled communication device and a video monitoring device; and

a processor cooperatively operable with the transceiver, and configured to facilitate;

establishing a SIP session between the video monitoring device and a video enabled communication device;

after the SIP session is established, providing instructions to receive, in accordance with a media path, a video feed from the video monitoring device, transcode the received video feed, and transmit, in accordance with the media path, the transcoded video feed to the video enabled communication device; and

tearing down the SIP session, after the video monitoring device or the video enabled communication device is no longer in communication.

15. The network infrastructure system of claim 14, further comprising a transcoding unit, wherein the SIP session is established further including a transcoding unit, the instructions to receive, transcode, and transmit are provided to the transcoding unit.

16. The network infrastructure system of claim 14, wherein the transcoding is performed in a transcoding unit at a network infrastructure device routing communications in the media path.

17. The network infrastructure system of claim 14, further comprising superimposing additional content into the received video feed, wherein the transcoded video feed which is transmitted to the video enabled communication device includes the additional content.

18. The network infrastructure system of claim 14, further comprising a video monitoring device control unit configured to facilitate:

interpreting dual tone multi-frequency (DTMF) tones received from the video enabled communication device as video monitoring device control for the video monitoring device; and

transmitting the video monitoring device control to the video monitoring device.

19. The network infrastructure system of claim 18, wherein the interpreting includes interacting with a media server to translate the DTMF tones to the video monitoring device control for the video monitoring device.

20. The network infrastructure system of claim 14, further comprising a video monitoring device control unit configured to facilitate:

receiving SIP information packets from the video enabled communication device to the video monitoring device, wherein the SIP information packets include video monitoring device control and indicate the video monitoring device to be controlled; and

transmitting the SIP info packets to the indicated video monitoring device, so that the video monitoring device is controlled.

21. The network infrastructure system of claim 14, wherein the SIP session is initiated by a sensor being triggered by a predetermined condition.