SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TRANSFERRING CONTENT BETWEEN USER EQUIPMENT AND A WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE

• US 20110163939A1
• Filed: 01/05/2010
• Published: 07/07/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 01/05/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: UV Corporation (Adeia Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Rovi Technologies Corporation (Adeia Inc.)
• Inventors: Tam, Terry, So, Jerry, Wong, Dick
• Granted Patent: US 9,201,627 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/2.3
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1454 involving copying of the display data of a local workstation or window to a remote workstation or window so that an actual copy of the data is displayed simultaneously on two or more displays, e.g. teledisplay
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4126 The peripheral being portable, e.g. PDAs or mobile phones
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/41407 embedded in a portable device, e.g. video client on a mobile phone, PDA, laptop constructional details of equipment or arrangements specially adapted for portable computer application G06F1/1626; arrangements specially adapted for mobile receivers in broadcast systems H04H20/57
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42221 Transmission circuitry, e.g. infrared [IR] or radio frequency [RF]
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/64707 for transferring content from a first network to a second network, e.g. between IP and wireless

Abstract

A wireless communications device provides users with opportunities to access interactive media guidance or other applications and to control user equipment and interactive media guidance applications. In an exemplary embodiment, if the wireless communications device goes outside of a predetermined range from the user equipment, content that was playing on user equipment may automatically be streamed to the wireless communications device.

Claims

1. A method for automatically transferring content from user equipment to a wireless communications device, comprising:

determining if the wireless communications device is outside of a predetermined range from the user equipment;

establishing connection between the user equipment and the wireless communications device in response to determining that the wireless communications device is outside of the predetermined range;

receiving, over the connection, the content at the wireless communications device from the user equipment; and

displaying the content on the wireless communications device.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein determining if the wireless communications device is outside of the predetermined range comprises determining if a short range connection between the user equipment and the wireless communications device is broken.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the short range connection is an infrared link.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein the short range connection is a Bluetooth link

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the connection is a Wi-Fi link.

6. The method of claim 2, further comprising:

re-establishing the short range connection between the wireless communications device and the user equipment in response to determining that the wireless communications device is inside the predetermined range.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein determining if the wireless communications device is outside of the predetermined range comprises using GPS to determine the location of the wireless communications device.

8. A system for automatically transferring content from user equipment to a wireless communications device, comprising:

a wireless communications device;

wherein the wireless communications device is configured to;

determine if the wireless communications device is outside of a predetermined range from the user equipment;

establishing a connection between the user equipment and the wireless communications device in response to determining that the wireless communications device is outside of the predetermined range;

receive, over the connection, the content from the user equipment; and

display the content on the wireless communications device.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein determining if the wireless communications device is outside of the predetermined range comprises determining if a short range connection between the user equipment and the wireless communications device is broken.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein the short range connection is an infrared link.

11. The system of claim 9, wherein the short range connection is a Bluetooth link

12. The system of claim 8, wherein the connection is a Wi-Fi link.

13. The system of claim 9, wherein the wireless communications device is further configured to:

re-establish the short range connection between the wireless communications device and the user equipment in response to determining that the wireless communications device is inside the predetermined range.

14. The system of claim 8, wherein determining if the wireless communications device is outside of the predetermined range comprises using GPS to determine the location of the wireless communications device.

15. A system for automatically transferring content from user equipment to a wireless communications device, comprising:

means for determining if the wireless communications device is outside of a predetermined range from the user equipment;

means for establishing a connection between the user equipment and the wireless communications device in response to determining that the wireless communications device is outside of the predetermined range;

means for receiving, over the connection, the content at the wireless communications device from the user equipment; and

means for displaying the content on the wireless communications device.

16. The system of claim 15, wherein the means for determining if the wireless communications device is outside of the predetermined range is further configured to determine if a short range connection between the user equipment and the wireless communications device is broken.

17. The system of claim 16, wherein the short range connection is an infrared link.

18. The system of claim 16, wherein the short range connection is a Bluetooth link

19. The system of claim 15, wherein the connection is a Wi-Fi link.

20. The system of claim 16, further comprising:

means for re-establishing the short range connection between the wireless communications device and the user equipment in response to determining that the wireless communications device is inside the predetermined range.

21. The system of claim 15, wherein the means for determining if the wireless communications device is outside of the predetermined range is further configured to use GPS to determine the location of the wireless communications device.