SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COUPLING A WIRELESS DEVICE TO SOCIAL NETWORKING SERVICES AND A MOBILE COMMUNICATION DEVICE

• US 20120066286A1
• Filed: 05/14/2010
• Published: 03/15/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 05/19/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Zipit Wireless, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Zipit Wireless, Inc.
• Inventors: Heredia, Rafael, Crowe, Michael Wayne, Fleming, Russell Herbert, Squires, Christopher Ross
• Granted Patent: US 10,135,630 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/201
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/957 Browsing optimisation, e.g. caching or content distillation
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/2814 Exchanging control software or macros for controlling appliance services in a home automation network arrangements for maintenance or administration involving configuration of the network and network elements H04L41/08
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0806 for initial configuration or provisioning, e.g. plug-and-play
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/125 involving control of end-device applications over a network
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/34 involving the movement of software or configuration parameters network booting or remote initial program loading [RIPL] G06F9/4416

Abstract

A system enables digital appliances to couple to third party application services directly. The system includes a device regulation/support site configured to generate a script program and a data template, and a digital appliance that selectively couples to the device regulation/support site and receives the script program and data template from the device regulation/support site, the digital appliance executes the script program with reference to the data template to couple directly to a third party application service and query the third party application service for data.

Claims

1. A system for supporting digital appliances comprising:

a device regulation/support site configured to generate a script program and a data template; and

a digital appliance that selectively couples to the device regulation/support site and receives the script program and data template from the device regulation/support site, the digital appliance executes the script program with reference to the data template to couple directly to a third party application service and query the third party application service for data.

2. The system of claim 1, the device regulation/support site being further configured to send a message having an address for the digital appliance to a mobile telephone to enable the mobile telephone to send data to the digital appliance.

3. The system of claim 1 wherein the digital appliance is a digital picture frame.

4. The system of claim 1 wherein the digital appliance executing the script program with reference to the data template couples directly to a social networking application service.

5. The system of claim 4 wherein the script program executed by the digital appliance queries the social networking application service for updates to selected ones of a plurality of photo albums associated with a user and at least one friend for that user that are identified by the data template.

6. The system of claim 1 wherein the data template is implemented in an XML format.

7. The system of claim 1 wherein the device regulation/support site being further configured to select the script program with reference to manufacturer data stored at the device regulation/support site.

8. The system of claim 7, the manufacturer data comprising:

package data.

9. A method for enabling a digital appliance to communicate with a third party application service comprising:

selecting a script program at a device regulation/support site;

generating a data template for the script program at the device regulation/support site;

receiving the script program and data template at a digital appliance;

executing the script program with reference to the data template at the digital appliance;

coupling the digital appliance executing the script program directly to a third party application service;

generating and sending with the digital appliance a query for data from the third party application service; and

transmitting data from the third party application service to the digital appliance in response to the query received from the script program executed by the digital appliance.

10. The method of claim 9 further comprising:

sending a message having an address for the digital appliance from the device regulation/support site to a mobile telephone to enable the mobile telephone to send data to the digital appliance.

11. The method of claim 9, the execution of the script program with the digital appliance further comprising:

executing the script program with a digital picture frame.

12. The method of claim 9, the transmission of the data from the third party application service further comprising:

transmitting data from a social networking application service to the digital appliance.

13. The method of claim 12 wherein the query sent to the social networking application service requests updates to selected ones of a plurality of photo albums associated with a user and at least one friend for that user that are identified by the data template.

14. The method of claim 9, the execution of the script program further comprising:

executing the script program with reference to a data template in an XML format.

15. The method of claim 9, the selection of the script program with the device regulation/support site further comprising:

selecting the script program with reference to manufacturer data stored at the device regulation/support site.

16. The method of claim 15, the selection of the script program with reference to manufacturer data further comprising:

selecting the script program with reference to package data received from a manufacturer.

17. A method for performing a transaction through a digital appliance coupled to a third party application service comprising:

sending a query for data from a digital appliance to a third party application service;

displaying on the digital appliance data returned from the third party application service in response to the query;

generating and sending a transaction request to the third party application service that corresponds to a portion of the displayed data;

obtaining transaction data;

generating a transaction identifier;

sending the transaction identifier to a mobile telephone; and

storing the transaction identifier in the mobile telephone.

18. The method of claim 17, the sending of the transaction identifier to the mobile telephone further comprising:

sending the transaction identifier to the mobile telephone through a short message service (SMS) interface.

19. The method of claim 17 further comprising:

sending a transaction record to an email account associated with the digital appliance.

20. The method of claim 17 wherein the data returned from the third party application service is a movie listing, and the transaction identifier identifies at least one movie ticket.