Method & system for sharing information through a mobile multimedia platform

• US 20090271812A1
• Filed: 04/24/2008
• Published: 10/29/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 04/24/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: North End Technologies Incorporated
• Original Assignee: North End Technologies Incorporated
• Inventors: More, Grinnell, Root, Timothy D.
• Granted Patent: US 8,103,382 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 725/10
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/437 Administration of user profiles, e.g. generation, initialisation, adaptation, distribution
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/025 for remote control or remote monitoring of applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/12 specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/131 Protocols for games, networked simulations or virtual reality

Abstract

In a wide area communications network such as the Internet, a public server and an associated database store and make available to a private server personal information relating to an individuals emotional or some other mental or physical state. The private server includes functionality to interpret the personal information it receives or gathers from the public server in order to identify at least one reaction instruction which can be used by a multimedia communications device to convey to a user the state of an individual by generating a human perceivable reaction which can be playing multimedia content in combination with movement if the multimedia communications device is a robot.

Claims

1. A method for conveying the state of a first individual to at least one other individual through an interactive multimedia communications device connected to a communications network comprising:

receiving over the communications network and storing at a processing device connected to the communications network information relating to the first individual;

the processing device interpreting the received and stored information relating to the first individual to identify at least one reaction instruction;

the processing device transmitting the at least one reaction instruction to an interactive multimedia communications device connected to the communications network; and

the interactive multimedia communications device receiving the at least one reaction instruction and using it to convey the state of the first individual to at least one other individual by generating a human perceivable reaction.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the interactive multimedia communications device is one of a robotic device, a mobile phone, a general purpose multimedia computational device, and a multimedia toy.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein the information relating to the first individual is comprised of at least one of the first individuals name, age, picture, gender, height, weight, occupation, marital status and the first individuals preferences.

4. The method of claim 3 wherein the first individuals preferences are comprised of one or more of relationship objective, likes, dislikes, favorite sports team, favorite music, favorite activity, family life status and private life status.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein the step of interpreting the received and stored information comprises:

identifying content of interest contained in the received and stored information;

filtering the content of interest to identify new content and storing the new content;

employing the new content to identify a reaction instruction; and

creating a reaction instruction message.

6. The method of claim 1 wherein the communications network is one of a public and a private network.

7. The method of claim 1 wherein the at least one reaction instruction is an electronic message that can be employed by the interactive multimedia communications device to generate a human perceivable reaction.

8. The method of claim 1 wherein the human perceivable reaction generated by the interactive multimedia communications device conveys the state of the first individual to the at least one other individual.

9. A method for conveying the state of a first individual to at least one other individual through an interactive multimedia communications device connected to a communications network comprising:

receiving [deleted;

over the communications network] and storing at the interactive multimedia communications device information relating to a first individual;

the interactive multimedia communications device interpreting the received information relating to the first individual to identify at least one reaction instruction; and

the interactive multimedia communications device using the at least one reaction instruction to convey the state of the individual by generating a human perceivable reaction.

10. The method of claim 9 wherein the interactive multimedia communications device is one of a robotic device, a mobile phone, a general purpose multimedia computational device, and a multimedia toy.

11. The method of claim 9 wherein the information relating to a first individual is received over one of a communications network and the environment proximate to interactive multimedia communications device.

12. The method of claim 9 wherein the information relating to the first individual is comprised of at least one of the first individuals name, age, picture, sex, height, weight, occupation, marital status and the first individuals preferences.

13. The method of claim 11 wherein the first individuals preferences are comprised of one or more of relationship objective, likes, dislikes, favorite sports team, favorite music, favorite activity, family life status and private life status.

14. The method of claim 9 wherein the step of interpreting the received and stored information comprises:

identifying content of interest contained in the received and stored information;

filtering the content of interest to identify new content and storing the new content;

employing the new content to identify a reaction instruction; and

creating a reaction instruction message.

15. The method of claim 9 wherein the communications network is one of a public and a private network.

16. The method of claim 9 wherein the at least one reaction instruction is an electronic message that can be employed by the interactive multimedia communications device to generate a human perceivable reaction.

17. The method of claim 9 wherein the human perceivable reaction generated by the interactive multimedia communications device conveys the state of the first individual to the at least one other individual.

19. The system of claim 17 wherein the interactive multimedia communications device is one of a robotic device, a mobile phone, a general purpose multimedia computational device and a multimedia toy.

20. The system of claim 17 wherein the information relating to the first individual is comprised of at least one of the first individuals name, age, picture, sex, height, weight, occupation, marital status and the first individuals preferences.

21. The system of claim 19 wherein the first individuals preferences are comprised of one or more of relationship objective, likes, dislikes, favorite sports team, favorite music, favorite activity, family life status and private life status.

22. The system of claim 17 wherein the communications network is one of a public and a private network.

23. The system of claim 17 wherein the at least one reaction instruction is an electronic message that can be employed by the interactive multimedia communications device to generate a human perceivable reaction.

24. The system of claim 17 wherein the human perceivable reaction generated by the interactive multimedia communications device conveys the state of the first individual to the at least one other individual.

18. A system for conveying the state of a first individual to at least one other individual through an interactive multimedia communications device comprising;

a public server connected to a communications network;

an interactive multimedia communications device connected to the communications network, and

a private server connected to the communications network comprising;

a web crawler for gathering information relating to the first individual;

a recognition module for identifying content of interest contained in the information gathered by the web crawler;

a filter module for identifying new content of interest;

a reaction module for identifying at least one reaction instruction and generating a reaction instruction message; and

a communications module for sending the at least one reaction instruction message to the interactive multimedia communications device where the at least one reaction instruction is used to convey the state of the individual by generating a human perceivable reaction.