Web and telephony interaction system and method
First Claim
1. Apparatus for location at a website comprising:
- a media input for receiving a media signal;
a chat room host configured to host one or more chat rooms, each chat room configured to display media from said media input in association with text from chat users as a chat room display;
a media output for outputting a media signal; and
a text and media mixing unit located between said media output and said chat room host, configured to receive text of said chat room display, mix with said received media signal to form a combined display, and form said combined display into a succession of fixed video frames, thereby to provide to said media output said chatroom display as video.
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Abstract
Apparatus for location at a website comprising: a media input for receiving a media signal, typically video; a chat room host configured to host chat rooms, each chat room configured to display media from said media input in association with text from chat users as a chat room display; a media output for outputting a media signal; and a user client located between said media input, said media output and said chat room host, configured to provide said media signal to said chat room host, and to receive said chat room display and output said chat room display to said media output as a video signal. The system allows an interactive connection to a mobile telephone and allows a mobile telephone to use its camera to broadcast to all the users of a chatroom.
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32 Claims
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1. Apparatus for location at a website comprising:
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a media input for receiving a media signal; a chat room host configured to host one or more chat rooms, each chat room configured to display media from said media input in association with text from chat users as a chat room display; a media output for outputting a media signal; and a text and media mixing unit located between said media output and said chat room host, configured to receive text of said chat room display, mix with said received media signal to form a combined display, and form said combined display into a succession of fixed video frames, thereby to provide to said media output said chatroom display as video. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
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7. A client-supporting telephony device, configured with a user client, the user client operative to configure said telephony device to carry out functions comprising:
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connecting to a chat room host, opening a chat room, sending a media signal to said chat room to feature on said chat room; receiving a feedback video signal from said chat room, said feed back video signal comprising a chat room display, and displaying said chat room display on a screen of said telephone. - View Dependent Claims (8, 9, 10)
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11. Apparatus for interaction between telephone and web, comprising:
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a telephony input unit for receiving telephone signals from a first telephone; a web input unit for receiving a web media signal from a website; a translating unit for translating said telephone signals for compatibility with said website and for translating said web media signal for sending to a telephone network, such that said first telephone is enabled by said translating to interact with said web site. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21)
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22. Method for interfacing between a telephone and a web server comprising:
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receiving a telephony originated media signal from a first telephone; receiving a web-originated media signal from a web site; sending said telephony originated media signal to said web site; and sending said telephony originated media signal back to said telephone in combination with material added at said web site. - View Dependent Claims (23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28)
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29. Method for interfacing between a telephone and the world wide web, comprising:
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receiving a telephony originated signal from a first telephone; translating said telephony originated media signal into a web command message for inducing interaction at a web site located on a web server; and sending said web command message to said web site to induce said interaction;
thereby to provide interactive interfacing between a telephone and a web site.
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30. In a system for hosting chat rooms on a web server, each chat room being opened by a first remote user operating a first remote connection, and allowing a plurality of remotely located users including said first remote user to interact via media, said media being combined into a chat room display, at least said first remote user being identified by an identification of said first remote connection and said identification of said first remote connection being used in said opening of said chat room, an improvement comprising:
- said first remote connection being a telephony connection and said identification of said first remote connection being an identification of a respective telephone.
- View Dependent Claims (31, 32)
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