WEB BROWSER PROXY-CLIENT VIDEO SYSTEM AND METHOD

• US 20120054616A1
• Filed: 01/14/2011
• Published: 03/01/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 08/31/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Millind Mittal
• Original Assignee: Millind Mittal
• Inventors: Mittal, Millind
• Granted Patent: US 8,554,938 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/722
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/957 Browsing optimisation, e.g. caching or content distillation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• 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 21/42209 for displaying non-command information, e.g. electronic program guide [EPG], e-mail, messages or a second television channel
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/43637 involving a wireless protocol, e.g. Bluetooth, RF or wireless LAN [IEEE 802.11] arrangements for wireless networking or broadcasting of information in indoor or near-field type systems H04B10/114
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6587 Control parameters, e.g. trick play commands, viewpoint selection

Abstract

Method of controlling playback of Internet web page video on remote or high quality video displays using a remote control device, such as a smart phone. The method runs a first client browser on the remote control device, which in turn sends commands to a proxy browser with a data buffer. In response to user commands from the remote control device, the proxy browser retrieves and buffers video and non-video web page data from Internet servers, and sends this data to the remote control device. Upon user command, the proxy browser also sends selected buffered data to a second client browser that is connected to the remote or high quality video display. Media player playback commands on the remote control are echoed to a second media player on the second client browser, resulting in good synchronization between devices. Various compression, IP address adjustment, and public key methods are also discussed.

Claims

1. A method of implementing a video display using a web browser proxy and a control browser client, said method comprising:

using a web browser proxy to obtain HTML code from an Internet web page server;

said HTML code comprising non-video elements and video objects;

wherein said web browser proxy is remotely controlled by a control browser client with a graphical user interface in a separate hardware platform, said control browser client being capable of taking control commands from a user, and sending said control commands to said web browser proxy;

using said control browser client to request said web browser proxy to request and receive said HTML code from said Internet web page server;

using said web browser proxy to process said non-video elements using a first non-video elements processing protocol, and to process said video objects using a first video objects processing protocol, producing processed non-video elements and processed video objects;

sending said processed non-video elements and said processed video objects to said control browser client;

rendering said processed non-video elements and said processed video objects on the graphical user interface of said control browser client;

using said control browser client to accept user commands to select at least some of said non-video elements or video objects and transmit said selection to said web browser proxy;

using said web browser proxy to process the selected non-video elements or video objects using a second non-video elements processing protocol for the said selected non-video elements, and a second video objects processing protocol for said selected video objects;

and rendering said selected processed non-video elements or said selected processed video objects on said video display.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein said web browser proxy stores at least one of said non-video elements or said video objects in a memory storage buffer;

said web browser proxy sends said selection to a video browser client;

said video browser client requests said selection from said memory storage buffer; and

said video browser client renders said selected processed non-video elements or said selected processed video objects on said video display.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein said control browser client renders at least said processed video objects in the graphical user interface of said control browser client using a first video media player;

and wherein said video browser client renders at least said selected processed video objects using a second video media player;

wherein the position of video media player controls in said first video media player can be mapped into the position of video media player controls in said second video media player;

and wherein user graphical user interface commands to control the operation of said first video media player in said control browser client are transmitted to said second video media player and are used to control the operation of said second media player in said video browser client.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein said video browser client and said web browser proxy are embedded in the same hardware platform.

5. The method of claim 2, wherein said video browser client and said web browser proxy are embedded in separate hardware platform.

6. The method of claim 2, wherein said video browser client or said web browser proxy or a combination of said video browser client and said web browser proxy are embedded in the same hardware platform as said video display.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein said video display is a 3D video display, and wherein if said Internet web page server additionally has 3D video objects corresponding to said selected video objects, using said control browser client to request said 3D video objects and display said 3D video objects on said video display.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein if said Internet web page server has additional video objects and/or additional non-video elements to show in addition to said selected video objects and/or said non-video elements, using said control browser client to request said additional video objects and/or said additional non-video elements and display said additional video objects and/or said additional non-video elements on said video display.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein said control browser client is designed to share HTML encryption key with said web browser proxy, thus enabling the web browser proxy to decrypt and interpret https and other encrypted data formats being transferred between said web browser client and said Internet web page server.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein said web browser proxy and control browser client have different internet protocol (IP) addresses;

and

wherein said web browser proxy and said control browser client exchanges said different internet protocol addresses using an external IP discovery server.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein said first non-video elements processing modifies embedded links in said non-video elements producing modified non-video elements;

said modified non-video elements is transmitted to said control browser client; and

wherein said modified non-video elements is rendered on the graphical user interface of said control browser client.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein said second non-video elements processing modifies embedded links in said video objects, producing modified video objects;

said modified video objects is transmitted to said control browser client; and

wherein said modified video objects is rendered on the graphical user interface of said control browser client.

13. The method of claim 1, wherein said first non-video elements processing protocol is a lossless image compression protocol that first renders at least part of the said non-video elements on said web browser proxy into a rendered image, and then performs lossless image compression on said rendered image producing a lossless compressed non-video page image;

and

wherein said lossless compressed non-video page image is transmitted to said control browser client, decompressed by said control browser client, and displayed on said graphical user interface.

14. The method of claim 1, wherein said selected non-video elements are rendered on said web browser proxy into at least one selected image;

and

said at least one selected image is displayed by said video display.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein said second non-video elements processing protocol is a lossless image compression protocol;

Wherein at least part of said one selected image is compressed using said second non-video elements processing protocol, thereby producing at least one compressed selected image; and

wherein said at least one compressed selected image is transmitted to said video display, decompressed, and displayed by said video display.

16. The method of claim 1, wherein said first video objects processing protocol is a null operation protocol;

and

wherein said video objects is transmitted to said control browser client, rendered by said control browser client, and displayed on said graphical user interface.

17. The method of claim 1, wherein said first non-video page processing protocol is a null operation protocol;

and

wherein said non-video elements is transmitted to said control browser client, rendered by said control browser client, and displayed on said graphical user interface.

18. The method of claim 1, wherein said first video objects processing protocol compresses said video objects to fit into a smaller number of bytes per second than said second video objects processing protocol, thus producing a higher resolution video image on said video display than is displayed on the graphical user interface of said control browser client.

19. The method of claim 1, wherein said web browser proxy time-synchronizes the sending of said processed non-video elements and video objects to said control browser client with the sending of said selected processed non-video elements and selected video objects to said video browser client;

thus producing time synchronized images between said control browser client and said video browser client.

20. The method of claim 1, wherein said control browser client is run on a smart phone, tablet computer, laptop personal computer, personal computer, or remote control.

21. The method of claim 1, wherein said web browser proxy sends said selected processed non-video elements or said selected processed video objects to a set top box, which in turn converts said selected processed non-video elements or said processed video objects to a format that can be displayed by said video display.

22. The method of claim 1, wherein said web browser proxy is embedded in a set top box.

23. The method of claim 1, wherein said web browser proxy is embedded in the said video display.

24. The method of claim 1, wherein at least some of said video objects may be transmitted to said web browser proxy using a different network connection than at least some of said non-video elements.

25. The method of claim 1, wherein said control browser client additionally displays control elements on said graphical user interface to allow said user to further control the selection and display on said video display of said non-video elements and said video objects.

26. The method of claim 1, wherein said control commands comprise one or more commands selected from the group consisting of keyboard commands, mouse commands, voice commands, and presses on a pressure sensitive graphical user interface.

27. A method of implementing a video display using a web browser proxy, video browser client and control browser client, said method comprising:

using a web browser proxy to obtain HTML code from an Internet web page server;

said HTML code comprising non-video elements and video objects;

wherein said web browser proxy is controlled by a control browser client with a graphical user interface, said control browser client being capable of taking control commands from a user, and sending said control commands to said web browser proxy;

using said control browser client to request said web browser proxy to request and receive said HTML code from said Internet web page server;

using said web browser proxy to process said non-video elements using a first non-video elements processing protocol, and to process said video objects using a first video objects processing protocol, producing processed non-video elements and processed video objects;

sending said processed non-video elements and said processed video objects to said control browser client;

rendering said processed non-video elements and said processed video objects on the graphical user interface of said control browser client;

using said control browser client to accept user commands to select at least some of said non-video elements or video objects and transmit said selection to said web browser proxy;

using said web browser proxy to process the selected non-video elements or video objects using a second non-video elements processing protocol for the said selected non-video elements, and a second video objects processing protocol for said selected video objects;

sending said selected said processed non-video elements and said processed video objects to a remote said video browser client in a separate hardware platform; and

resulting in said video browser client rendering said selected processed non-video elements or said selected processed video objects on said video display.

28. The method of claim 27, wherein said web browser proxy stores at least one of said non-video elements or said video objects in a memory storage buffer;

said web browser proxy sends said selection to a said video browser client;

said video browser client requests said selection from said memory storage buffer; and

said video browser client renders said selected processed non-video elements or said selected processed video objects on said video display.

29. The method of claim 28, wherein said control browser client renders at least said processed video objects in the graphical user interface of said control browser client using a first video media player;

and wherein said video browser client renders at least said selected processed video objects using a second video media player;

wherein the position of video media player controls in said first video media player can be mapped into the position of video media player controls in said second video media player;

and wherein user graphical user interface commands to control the operation of said first video media player in said control browser client are transmitted to said second video media player and are used to control the operation of said second media player in said video browser client.

30. The method of claim 27, wherein said video browser client and said web browser proxy are embedded in separate hardware platform.

31. The method of claim 27, wherein said video browser client is embedded in a set-top box or video display.

32. The method of claim 27, wherein said video display is a 3D video display, and wherein if said Internet web page server additionally has 3D video objects corresponding to said selected video objects, using said control browser client to request said 3D video objects and display said 3D video objects on said video display.

33. The method of claim 27, wherein if said Internet web page server has additional video objects and/or additional non-video elements to show in addition to said selected video objects and/or said non-video elements, using said control browser client to request said additional video objects and/or said additional non-video elements and display said additional video objects and/or said additional non-video elements on said video display.

34. The method of claim 27, wherein said web browser client compromises a video browser client server module and a control browser proxy module;

and wherein said video browser client server module and said control browser proxy module are implemented on different hardware platforms.