MEDIA CONTINUITY SERVICE BETWEEN DEVICES

• US 20080183645A1
• Filed: 01/31/2007
• Published: 07/31/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 01/31/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Balabaskaran, Balakumaran, Burger, Michel C.
• Application Number:
  US11/669,821
• Publication Number:
  US 20080183645A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 706/12
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1095 Replication or mirroring of data, e.g. scheduling or transport for data synchronisation between network nodes
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/54 Presence management, e.g. monitoring or registration for receipt of user log-on information, or the connection status of the users

Abstract

A system that provides the ability to monitor, capture and recreate states of media consumption (e.g., channel, timing) is provided. More specifically, the innovation provides for the ability to identify a context in which a plurality of components collaboratively participate in decisions of transferring a media. In accordance with the context, the innovation can save current states of a ‘session’ (e.g., Internet television, radio, instant messaging conversation) thereafter being able to recover the state of the session on other devices that are connected to the same context as the original device. Accordingly, the session (e.g., media consumption) can be continued via an alternative device. In other aspects, for example where the session represents live media, a recorder can be employed to store (e.g., cache, buffer) the media for later broadcast in accordance with the continuity service.

Claims

1. A continuity service system that facilitates management of media, comprising:

a context in which a plurality of components collaboratively participate in decisions of transferring a media;

a device management component that maintains an inventory of the plurality of devices; and

a service logic component that migrates the media from a current device to one of the plurality of devices as a function of the context.

2. The system of claim 1, the service logic component captures a state of the media and employs the state to migrate the media.

3. The system of claim 1, the plurality of devices includes at least one of a television, laptop computer, desktop computer, mobile telephone, personal data assistant and smartphone.

4. The system of claim 1, further comprising a device virtualization component that establishes a virtual representation of each of the plurality of devices, wherein the service logic component employs the virtual representations to migrate the media.

5. The system of claim 1, further comprising a profile component that identifies at least one of a user preference and a device migration hierarchy as a function of the device virtualizations.

6. The system of claim 1, further comprising a monitoring component that monitors the context associated to the current device and facilitates update of the inventor of the plurality of devices.

7. The system of claim 6, further comprising an event management component that manages a plurality of events, a subset of the events facilitates migration of the media.

8. The system of claim 7, further comprising a context generation component that establishes the context.

9. The system of claim 8, further comprising a sensor component that captures criteria associated with one of a user and the current device, wherein the criteria is employed to establish the context.

10. The system of claim 1, further comprising an interface component that facilitates a user to employ a profile generation component to define a plurality of rules, wherein the plurality of rules define a migration policy used by the service logic component to migrate the media.

11. The system of claim 1, further comprising a machine learning and reasoning component that employs at least one of a probabilistic and a statistical-based analysis that infers an action that a user desires to be automatically performed.

12. A method of continuing media consumption between devices, comprising:

activating a continuity service that defines a context in which a plurality of components collaboratively participate in decisions of transferring a media;

capturing a current state of the media consumption within the context;

identifying a target device within the context; and

transferring the media to the target device as a function of the current state.

13. The method of claim 12, further comprising notifying a user of the continuity service via the target device.

14. The method of claim 12, further comprising:

recording the media as a function of the current state; and

replying the recorded media on the target device.

15. The method of claim 12, the act of activating the continuity service includes entering a user login information.

16. The method of claim 12, further comprising accessing a migration rule that identifies the target device.

17. The method of claim 16, further comprising programming the migration rule in accordance with a user preference.

18. A media continuity service, comprising:

means for establishing a context in which components collaboratively participate in decisions of consuming media;

means for monitoring state of a session;

means for generating an event related to the context of the session; and

means for migrating the state of the session from a current device to a target device based upon the event when the target device enters the context.

19. The service of claim 18, further comprising means for identifying the target device as a function of the context.

20. The service of claim 18, further comprising means for recording the session as a function of the state.