DIGITAL MEDIA FRAME
First Claim
1. A method for providing images or information to a plurality of digital media frames over a communication network by a network service provider, the method comprising:
- providing at least one service by said network service provider to said plurality of digital media frames, wherein said at least one service includes providing categories of images and categories of commercially available content viewable on said digital media frames;
providing by said network service provider a means for selecting one or more services from said at least one service to be transmitted to a respective digital media frame over said communication network;
associating each digital media frame with an account associated with said network service provider, wherein each account includes a user profile that includes the selected one or more services;
based on the user profiles, transmitting by said service provider the selected one or more services included in said user profiles to the digital media frame associated with each respective user profile;
receiving by said network service provider a share list from respective digital media frames and storing said share lists in the user profiles associated with the respective digital media frames, wherein each share list includes identifiers for other digital media frames;
receiving by said network service provider a share operation indicator from a digital media frame; and
based on the share list included in the user profile associated with said digital media frame indicating the share operation, transmitting by said service provider selected share objects to the digital media frames identified in the share list.
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Abstract
A method and a device for displaying images on a digital media frame is disclosed. In one embodiment, the device includes a memory, a processing unit, a display, an interface circuit, and a display circuit. The interface circuit has at least one receiving port capable of identifying various types of networking protocols that are used to transfer the image data. The processing unit attaches auxiliary information to each image before images are stored in a memory. The display circuit displays images according to the image data received. The digital media frame further contains a user input device, which allows a user to alter the image display sequence. The user input device is an input device other than a keyboard or a cursor control device.
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10 Claims
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1. A method for providing images or information to a plurality of digital media frames over a communication network by a network service provider, the method comprising:
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providing at least one service by said network service provider to said plurality of digital media frames, wherein said at least one service includes providing categories of images and categories of commercially available content viewable on said digital media frames; providing by said network service provider a means for selecting one or more services from said at least one service to be transmitted to a respective digital media frame over said communication network; associating each digital media frame with an account associated with said network service provider, wherein each account includes a user profile that includes the selected one or more services; based on the user profiles, transmitting by said service provider the selected one or more services included in said user profiles to the digital media frame associated with each respective user profile; receiving by said network service provider a share list from respective digital media frames and storing said share lists in the user profiles associated with the respective digital media frames, wherein each share list includes identifiers for other digital media frames; receiving by said network service provider a share operation indicator from a digital media frame; and based on the share list included in the user profile associated with said digital media frame indicating the share operation, transmitting by said service provider selected share objects to the digital media frames identified in the share list. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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