Publishing Assets Of Dynamic Nature In UPnP Networks

• US 20090150480A1
• Filed: 12/08/2007
• Published: 06/11/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 12/08/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Inventors: Tao, Bo, Garcia, David, Zhuo, Shao Lin, Lee, Yen-Jen, Xia, Xiyuan, Broyde, Dmitry
• Application Number:
  US11/953,014
• Publication Number:
  US 20090150480A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/203
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2012/2849 Audio/video appliances
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/612 for unicast
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/752 adapting media to network capabilities
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/762 at the source reformatting of additional data in video distribution servers H04N21/2355
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/51 Discovery or management thereof, e.g. service location protocol [SLP] or web services
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/56 Provisioning of proxy services store-and-forward switching systems in data switching networks H04L12/54
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/565 Conversion or adaptation of application format or content adding application control or application functional data H04L67/561

Abstract

System and computer program products for allowing a renderer in a UPnP network the capability of being able to render general Internet content, which the renderer was not designed to render in the contents original data format and file type. The system queries all devices on the local network, queries specific remote servers over the Internet, and retrieves data feeds from remote sources. The queried and retrieved data that is not in a format and file type that can be rendered by the renderer is loaded into a template and turned into a format and file type acceptable by the renderer. The queried and retrieved data in the proper format and file type is organized in a custom format and made available for rendering to the renderer. The system has the capability of transmitting content or the metadata of the content within the devices on the local network to a hosting service over the Internet. Additionally, a second local network has the capability of accessing the content stored on the first local network.

Claims

1. A computer program product, comprising a computer readable storage medium having computer program instructions and data embodied thereon to adapt a content server on a local network to provide dynamic content from a source on a remote network to a media renderer coupled to the local network, the content server and the renderer communicating via a first communication protocol restricted to managing communication between devices across the local network, and the content server further adapted to communicate using a second communication protocol for transporting content and data within and across networks, the computer program instructions and data to adapt the content server to perform the operations of:

receiving by the content server, via the first communication protocol, a request from a control point to render dynamic content on the renderer;

receiving periodically by the content server a feed of dynamic content from the source on the remote network, via the second communication protocol, wherein the feed of dynamic content is in a file type and data format that is not renderable by the renderer;

cross coding by the content server the dynamic content into a file type and data format renderable by the renderer; and

transmitting from the content server the cross coded content to the renderer, via the second communication protocol.

2. The computer program product of claim 1, wherein the local network is in a UPnP architecture and the first communication protocol is a UPnP communication protocol.

3. The computer program product of claim 1, wherein the dynamic content comprises a data feed of textual data, and cross coding of the content comprises:

periodically placing the textual data into a template organizing the textual data into at least one page of data; and

processing the template into a file type and format renderable by the renderer.

4. The computer program product of claim 1, wherein cross coding of the content comprises:

placing the dynamic content into a template; and

processing the content in the template into a file type and format renderable by the renderer.

5. The computer program product of claim 4, wherein processing the content in the template comprises:

responsive to the renderer being able to render video files, converting the content and the template into a video file.

6. The computer program product of claim 5, wherein converting the content and the template comprises:

rendering the cross coded content into a video frame; and

encoding a plurality of video frames into the video file.

7. The computer program product of claim 6, wherein content server is adapted to continuously transmit the video frames to the renderer, via the second communication protocol.

8. The computer program product of claim 1, wherein the dynamic content comprises a video feed, and cross coding of the content comprises:

selecting frames of the video feed as individual images; and

processing the selected frames as individual image files renderable by the renderer.

9. The computer program product of claim 1, wherein the content server is adapted to receive the feed of dynamic content from a source on the local network.

10. A computer-implemented system, coupled to a local network, and adapted to provide dynamic content from a source on a remote to network to a media renderer coupled to the local network, the render and system communicating via a first communication protocol restricted to managing communication between devices across the local network, and the system further adapted to communicate using a second communication protocol for transporting content and data within and across networks, the system comprising:

a control point communication module adapted for a control point to request, via the first communication protocol, to render dynamic content on the renderer;

an internet connection module adapted to periodically or continuously receive a feed of dynamic content from the source on the remote network, via the second communication protocol;

a cross coding module adapted to cross code the dynamic content into a file type and data format renderable by the renderer wherein the feed of dynamic content is in a file type and data format not renderable by the renderer; and

a streaming module adapted to transmit from the cross coded content to the renderer, via the second communication protocol.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein the local network is in a UPnP architecture and the first communication protocol is a UPnP communication protocol.

12. The system of claim 10, wherein the dynamic content comprises a data feed of textual data, the cross coding module is further adapted to:

periodically place the data feed into a template organizing the data feed into at least one page of data; and

process the template into a file type and format renderable by the renderer.

13. The system of claim 10, wherein the cross coding module is adapted to cross code the dynamic content by placing the dynamic content into a template and processing the content in the template into a file type and format renderable by the renderer.

14. The system of claim 10, the cross coding module is further adapted to:

responsive to the renderer being able to render video files, render the cross coded content into a video frame; and

encode a plurality of video frames into a video file.

15. The system of claim 14, wherein the streaming module is further adapted to continuously transmit video frames to the renderer, via the second communication protocol.

16. The system of claim 10, wherein the dynamic content comprises a video feed, the cross coding module is further adapted to:

select frames of the video feed as individual images; and

process the selected frames as individual image files renderable by the renderer.