SYSTEM, METHOD AND ARTICLE OF MANUFACTURE FOR UTILIZING AN INTERFACE CLIENT IN AN INTERFACE ROAMING NETWORK FRAMEWORK

• US 20090307331A1
• Filed: 08/05/2009
• Published: 12/10/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 10/24/2000
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: III Holdings 3, LLC
• Original Assignee: LitePoint Corporation (Teradyne Incorporated)
• Inventors: Olgaard, Christian Volf, Bouas, Spiros Nikolaos, Madsen, Benny, Umstattd, Rick William
• Granted Patent: US 7,849,198 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/217
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/00 Input arrangements for transferring data to be processed into a form capable of being handled by the computer; Output arrangements for transferring data from processing unit to output unit, e.g. interface arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/14 Digital output to display device ; Cooperation and interconnection of the display device with other functional units
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2370/022 Centralised management of display operation, e.g. in a server instead of locally
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2370/04 Exchange of auxiliary data, i.e. other than image data, between monitor and graphics controller
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2370/16 Use of wireless transmission of display information

Abstract

A system, method and article of manufacture are provided for utilizing an interface client in an interface roaming network. In general, an interface client in the interface roaming network submits information about the interface client to a wireless link in vicinity to the interface client. The interface client may then subsequently receive content and then display the content on a display.

Claims

1-20. -20. (canceled)

21. A method for utilizing a wireless device and one or more interface clients in an interface roaming network for communicating content to a user via said wireless device and said one or more interface clients, comprising:

receiving, with a wireless device, information about each of one or more interface clients when in proximity of each of said one or more interface clients, wherein said information about each of said one or more interface clients includes information about content communication capabilities of each of said one or more interface clients;

conveying, with said wireless device, said information about each of said one or more interface clients to a remote source;

determining a capability of each of said one or more interface clients to communicate content based at least on said information about each of said one or more interface clients; and

receiving, with said wireless device, said content from said remote source and selectively communicating and conveying by

communicating to a user of said wireless device a visual portion of said content on a display of said wireless device,

communicating to said user an aural portion of said content via a transducer of said wireless device, and

conveying, when said wireless device is in proximity thereto, said content via said wireless device to each of said one or more interface clients for communication to said user, in accordance with display control information provided via said wireless device, a visual portion of said content on a respective display of said each of said one or more interface clients.

22. The method of claim 21, wherein said receiving, with said wireless device, said content from said remote source and selectively communicating and conveying comprises:

communicating to said user at least one of said visual and aural portions of said content on said display and transducer, respectively, of said wireless device;

pausing said communicating of said content via said wireless device; and

conveying, when said wireless device is in proximity, said content via said wireless device to at least one of said one or more interface clients such that said content is communicated to said user via said wireless device and said at least one of said one or more interface clients in a substantially continuous manner.

23. The method of claim 21, wherein said receiving, with said wireless device, said content from said remote source and selectively communicating and conveying comprises communicating to said user at least one of said visual and aural portions of said content on said display and transducer, respectively, of said wireless device when said wireless device is beyond a proximity of each of said one or more interface clients.

24. The method of claim 21, further comprising receiving, with said wireless device, said display control information from said remote source.

25. The method of claim 24, wherein said receiving, with said wireless device, said display control information from said remote source comprises receiving said display control information from an infrastructure server.

26. The method of claim 21, further comprising transmitting, with said wireless device, a wireless device signal when said wireless device is in proximity of one of said one or more interface clients prior to said receiving, with said wireless device, said information about said one of said one or more interface clients.

27. The method of claim 26, further comprising receiving, with said wireless device, an interface client signal from said one of said one or more interface clients, and wherein said transmitting, with said wireless device, said wireless device signal comprises transmitting said wireless device signal in response to said receiving said interface client signal.

28. The method of claim 26, wherein said transmitting said wireless device signal comprises transmitting a signal including information identifying said user.

29. The method of claim 21, wherein said information about each of said one or more interface clients further includes information about at least one of an input device and a location of said each of said one or more interface clients.

30. A system for utilizing a wireless device and one or more interface clients in an interface roaming network for communicating content to a user via said wireless device and said one or more interface clients, comprising:

one or more interface clients;

a wireless device adapted for receiving information about each of said one or more interface clients when in proximity of each of said one or more interface clients, wherein said information about each of said one or more interface clients includes at least information about content communication capabilities of each of said one or more interface clients; and

a remote source;

wherein

said wireless device is further adapted for conveying said information about each of said one or more interface clients to said remote source,

at least one of said wireless device and remote source is further adapted for determining a capability of each of said one or more interface clients to communicate content based at least on said information about each of said one or more interface clients, and

said wireless device is further adapted for receiving said content from said remote source and selectively

communicating to a user a visual portion of said content on a display of said wireless device,

communicating to said user an aural portion of said content via a transducer of said wireless device, and

conveying, when said wireless device is in proximity thereto, said content via said wireless device to each of said one or more interface clients for communication to said user, in accordance with display control information provided via said wireless device, a visual portion of said content on a respective display of said each of said one or more interface clients.

31. The method of claim 30, wherein said wireless device is adapted for receiving said content from said remote source and selectively communicating and conveying by:

communicating to said user at least one of said visual and aural portions of said content on said display and transducer, respectively, of said wireless device;

pausing said communicating of said content via said wireless device; and

conveying, when said wireless device is in proximity, said content via said wireless device to at least one of said one or more interface clients such that said content is communicated to said user via said wireless device and said at least one of said one or more interface clients in a substantially continuous manner.

32. The method of claim 30, wherein said wireless device is adapted for receiving said content from said remote source and selectively communicating and conveying by communicating to said user at least one of said visual and aural portions of said content on said display and transducer, respectively, of said wireless device when said wireless device is beyond a proximity of each of said one or more interface clients.

33. The method of claim 30, wherein said wireless device is further adapted for receiving said display control information from said remote source.

34. The method of claim 33, wherein said wireless device is adapted for receiving said display control information from said remote source by receiving said display control information from an infrastructure server.

35. The method of claim 30, wherein said wireless device is further adapted for transmitting a wireless device signal when said wireless device is in proximity of one of said one or more interface clients prior to said receiving, with said wireless device, said information about said one of said one or more interface clients.

36. The method of claim 35, wherein said wireless device is further adapted for:

receiving an interface client signal from said one of said one or more interface clients, and

transmitting said wireless device signal in response to said receiving said interface client signal.

37. The method of claim 35, wherein said wireless device signal includes information identifying said user.

38. The method of claim 30, wherein said information about each of said one or more interface clients further includes information about at least one of an input device and a location of said each of said one or more interface clients.