CONTENT IDENTIFICATION AND RETRIEVAL BASED ON DEVICE COMPONENT PROXIMITY

• US 20110235577A1
• Filed: 03/29/2010
• Published: 09/29/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 03/29/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: O'Keefe, Timothy J., Hintermeister, Gregory R.
• Granted Patent: US 8,489,079 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/328
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/955 using information identifiers, e.g. uniform resource locators [URL]
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/26 at least one of which is mobile
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6156 specially adapted to the upstream path of the transmission network
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/021 Services related to particular areas, e.g. point of interest [POI] services, venue services or geofences

Abstract

The invention provides proximity based content retrieval. A proximity element is provided for each of a plurality of components associated with a primary device. Identification information of each proximity element for an associated particular proximity space is communicated to a mobile wireless device. Upon the mobile wireless device being located within the associated particular proximity space of a particular proximity element, the mobile device receives associated identification information of the particular proximity element. The mobile device retrieves video content based on the associated identification information.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

a primary device including a plurality of components each having a proximity element; and

a mobile device configured to receive identification information from a particular component among the plurality of components based on proximity of the mobile device to the particular component, the mobile device further configured to retrieve content based on the received identification information.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the mobile device is further configured to perform a search for content based on the received identification information on a network.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the mobile device is further configured to retrieve content from a particular location on a network based on the received identification information.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the mobile device is further configured to display a list of content based on the received identification information.

5. The system of claim 4, wherein the list of content is reduced based on a selected predetermined video category.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the proximity element is configured to communicate with the mobile device via a wireless signal.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein the proximity element is configured to transmit the identification information based on access information.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the mobile device is configured for providing content based proximity to a particular component.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein content comprises one or more of video content, graphic content, audio content and text content.

10. A method comprising:

providing a proximity element for each of a plurality of components associated with a primary device;

communicating identification information of each proximity element for an associated particular proximity space;

upon a mobile wireless device being located within the associated particular proximity space of a particular proximity element, receiving associated identification information of the particular proximity element; and

retrieving content based on the associated identification information.

11. The method of claim 10, further comprising:

performing a search for content on a network based on the associated identification information.

12. The method of claim 11, further comprising:

retrieving content from a particular location based on the associated identification information.

13. The method of claim 10, further comprising:

selecting a predetermined content category; and

retrieving content from the selected content category based on the associated identification information.

14. The method of claim 10, further comprising:

receiving access identification information; and

communicating the identification information of each proximity element based on the access identification information.

15. The method of claim 10, further comprising:

providing content on the mobile wireless device based on proximity to a particular component.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein providing of the content is paused upon the mobile device moving outside of the associated particular proximity space of the particular component.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein providing the content resumes upon the mobile device moving back to the associated particular proximity space of the particular component.

18. The method of claim 10, wherein content comprises one or more of video content, graphic content, audio content and text content.

19. A computer program product for proximity based video content retrieval comprising:

a computer usable medium having computer readable program code embodied therewith, the computer readable program code comprising;

computer readable program code configured for;

receiving identification information from a proximity element of a primary device component based on a particular proximity space associated with the proximity element;

receiving associated identification information from the proximity element;

retrieving content based on the associated identification information; and

providing the content on a wireless mobile device.

20. The computer program product of claim 19, wherein the computer is further caused to:

perform a search for content on a network based on the associated identification information.

21. The computer program product of claim 19, wherein the computer is further caused to:

receive access identification information; and

communicate the identification information of a proximity element based on the access identification information.

22. The computer program product of claim 19, wherein providing the content is paused upon the mobile device moving outside of the particular proximity space of the proximity element.

23. The computer program product of claim 22, wherein providing the content resumes upon the mobile device moving back to the particular proximity space of the proximity element.

24. The computer program product of claim 21, wherein proximity is one of hierarchical proximity and navigational proximity.

25. The computer program product of claim 21, wherein content comprises one or more of video content, graphic content, audio content and text content.