USER DEVICE, SERVER, AND OPERATING CONDITIONS SETTING SYSTEM

• US 20130159400A1
• Filed: 08/11/2011
• Published: 06/20/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 09/06/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Okada, Hiroshi, Enari, Masahiko, Hori, Katsuya, Fujii, Bunichiro
• Application Number:
  US13/818,115
• Publication Number:
  US 20130159400A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/203
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1684 Constructional details or arrangements related to integrated I/O peripherals not covered by groups G06F1/1635 - G06F1/1675
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 15/177 Initialisation or configuration control processor initialisation G06F9/4405
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9537 Spatial or temporal dependent retrieval, e.g. spatiotemporal queries
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/0381 Multimodal input, i.e. interface arrangements enabling the user to issue commands by simultaneous use of input devices of different nature, e.g. voice plus gesture on digitizer
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/038 Control and interface arrangements therefor, e.g. drivers or device-embedded control circuitry
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72442 for playing music files
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72454 according to context-related or environment-related conditions
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72457 according to geographic location

Abstract

A user device including a communication interface that communicates with a server, a sensor unit that detects at least one of a state of a user and a state of the user device, and a controller that controls an operating condition of the user device by receiving information from the server based on a comparison between an output of the sensor unit and stored setting description data associating the operating condition with a predetermined output of the sensor unit.

Claims

1. A user device, comprising:

a communication interface configured to communicate with a server;

a sensor unit configured to detect at least one of a state of a user and a state of the user device; and

a controller configured to control an operating condition of the user device by receiving information from the server based on a comparison between an output of the sensor unit and stored setting description data associating the operating condition with a predetermined output of the sensor unit.

2. The user device of claim 1, further comprising:

a display configured to display a setting screen received from the server, the setting screen configured to receive input setting information associating an operating condition of the user device with an output of the sensor unit.

3. The user device of claim 2, wherein the interface is configured to transmit the input setting information to the server.

4. The user device of claim 3, wherein the interface is configured to receive the setting description data from the server, the setting description data generated by the server based on the input setting information received from the user device.

5. The user device of claim 4, wherein the setting description data includes at least one of setting identifiers identifying operating conditions set based on an output of the sensor unit, and operating conditions set by combining states of information detected by a plurality of sensor units of the user device.

6. The user device of claim 4, wherein the controller is configured to control an operating condition of the user device by comparing an output of the sensor unit to the setting description data.

7. The user device of claim 1, wherein the communication interface is configured to transmit an output of the sensor unit to the server.

8. The user device of claim 7, wherein the controller is configured to control an operating condition of the user device based on operating condition information received from the server.

9. The user device of claim 1, wherein the sensor unit comprises at least one of a vibration sensor, acceleration sensor, velocity sensor, position sensor, direction sensor, environmental sound sensor, temperature sensor, humidity sensor, barometric pressure sensor, image sensor, time sensor, electrical potential sensor, electric current sensor, photoelectricity sensor, an infrared light sensor.

10. A server comprising:

a processor configured to generate a setting screen configured to receive an input associating an operating condition of a user device with a predetermined output of a sensor unit of the user device;

an interface configured to receive input setting information associating the operating condition of the user device with the predetermined output of the sensor unit of the user device, wherein

the processor is configured to generate setting description data associating the operating condition with the predetermined output of the sensor unit based on the input setting information.

11. The server of claim 10, further comprising:

a communication interface configured to transmit the setting screen to the user device.

12. The server of claim 11, wherein the communication interface is configured to receive the input setting information from the user device.

13. The server of claim 10, further comprising:

a communication interface configured to transmit the setting description data to the user device.

14. The server of claim 10, further comprising:

a communication interface configured to receive an output of the sensor unit at the user device, the sensor unit configured to detect at least one of a state of a user and a state of the user device.

15. The server of claim 14, wherein the processor is configured to determine an operating condition of the user device by comparing the received output of the sensor unit to the setting description data.

16. The server of claim 15, wherein the communication interface is configured to transmit information to the user device indicating the operating condition of the user device based on the comparing.

17. The server of claim 14, wherein the communication interface is configured to communicate with at least one of a plurality of linked server configured to process the output of the sensor unit received from the user device.

18. The server of claim 17, wherein the processor is configured to determine an operating condition of the user device based on data received from the at least one of the plurality of linked servers.

19. The server of claim 15, wherein the communication interface is configured to transmit a command to a distribution server based on the determined operating condition, the command causing the distribution server to distribute content to the user device.

20. An operating conditions setting system comprising:

a processor, at a server, configured to generate a setting screen configured to receive input associating an operating condition of a user device with a predetermined output of a sensor unit of the user device;

a first communication interface, at the user device, configured to receive the setting screen from the server;

a user interface, at the user device, configured to display the setting screen and receive input setting information associating an operating condition of the user device with an output of the sensor unit as input setting information;

a second communication interface, at the server, configured to receive the input setting information from the user device; and

a processor, at the server, configured to generate setting description data associating the operating condition with the predetermined output of the sensor unit based on the received input setting information.