VIDEO SCRIPT INTERPRETER PLATFORM WITH COOPERATING CLIENT AND SERVER

• US 20120096092A1
• Filed: 10/19/2010
• Published: 04/19/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 10/19/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Paul Matthew Davidge
• Original Assignee: Matthew Davidge & Associates Incorporated
• Inventors: Davidge, Paul Matthew, Lepinski, Albert
• Granted Patent: US 9,521,174 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/206
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/34 involving the use of external additional devices, e.g. dongles or smart cards
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/35 communicating wirelessly
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/612 for unicast
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/14 Session management for real-time applications in data packet communications networks H04L65/1066

Abstract

A first device, such as a PC, is enabled to receive messages from a second device, such as an application server, that does not know the address of the first device, by interaction with an intermediate man-in-the-middle (MITM) server. The first device obtains an ID, provides the ID to a human using the first device, and then the human provides the ID to the second device. The second device sends a message to the MITM server addressed to the ID. Meanwhile, the first device long polls the MITM server, and in response to one of the long polls, the MITM server sends the message from the second device to the first device. The first device is operating according to a script that was received from an external device, in response to a request for the script from the first device. The request for the script is embedded in a web page that the first device received; the script request may be launched automatically by the web page or in response to an action by the human. The human perceives an interaction experience co-ordinated across devices.

Claims

1. A method of enabling a second device to communicate with a first device, comprising:

receiving an ID and a network address from the first device,

placing the ID on a waiting list, the ID being associated with the network address,

receiving, from the second device, a message addressed to the ID, the ID having been provided to the second device by direct human activity, and

sending the message to the network address associated with the ID on the waiting list.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the ID and the network address are received in a poll from the first device, and the sending of the message to the first device is a response to the poll.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the ID and the network address are received in a first poll from the first device, and further comprising storing the message, retrieving the message, and wherein the sending of the message sends the retrieved message is response to a second poll from the first device.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the first device is a personal computer, the second device is a voice response system and the direct human activity is providing the ID to the voice response system by one of speaking into a phone or touching a phone using a human finger.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising receiving a request for an ID from the first device, generating the ID, and providing the ID to the first device.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising writing an audit trail record for the sending of the message.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the first device is operating according to a script received from a server in response to a request for the script.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the request for the script was embedded in a web page received by the first device.

9. The method of claim 7, wherein the first device includes a display screen, and the script includes an instruction to present the ID on the display screen.

10. A method of enabling a second device to communicate with a first device, comprising:

receiving a request for an ID from the first device,

generating the ID,

storing the ID in association with a network address of the first device,

sending the ID to the first device

receiving, from the second device, a message addressed to the ID, the ID having been provided to the second device by direct human activity, and

sending the message to the network address associated with the ID.

11. The method of claim 10, further comprising receiving a new message addressed to a network address, and sending the new message to the network address.

12. The method of claim 10, further comprising

receiving a poll for messages from the first device,

opening a connection to the first device,

starting a timer for a predetermined time T_POLL,

closing the connection to the first device when T_POLL elapses,

and wherein the sending of the message occurs while the connection is open.

13. The method of claim 12, further comprising setting the time to an elapsed state after the sending of the message.

14. The method of claim 12, further comprising, when the message is received when the connection is closed, storing the message until a next poll is received.

15. The method of claim 10, further comprising writing an audit trail record for the sending of the message.

16. The method of claim 10, wherein the first device is operating according to a script received from a server in response to a request for the script.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein the request for the script was embedded in a web page received by the first device.

18. The method of claim 16, wherein the first device includes a display screen, and the script includes an instruction to present the ID on the display screen.

19. A method of enabling a second device to communicate with a first device, comprising:

providing to a human, from the first device, an ID associated with the first device,

sending a poll from the first device to an MITM server, and

receiving, at the first device from the MITM server, a message from the second device,

wherein the message was provided to the MITM server from the second device and included an address to the ID, and the ID was provided to the second device by direct human activity.

20. A method of enabling a second device to communicate with a first device, comprising:

receiving, at the second device, an ID, the ID being provided by direct human activity,

generating, at the second device, a message for the first device that is addressed to the ID, and

sending, from the second device, the message to an MITM server,

wherein the MITM server receives a poll from the first device including the ID, and sends the message from the second device in response to the poll.