ELECTRONIC SYSTEM COMPRISING MEANS FOR COMPUTING PERSONALIZATION PARAMETERS OF DATA TO BE REPRODUCED AND MEANS FOR SELECTING DATA TO BE REPRODUCED AS A FUNCTION OF SAID PARAMETERS, ASSOCIATED LOCAL DATA TRANSMISSION NETWORK AND SELECTION METHOD OF DATA TO BE REPRODUCED

• US 20130227627A1
• Filed: 02/22/2013
• Published: 08/29/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 02/24/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Myriad Group AG
• Original Assignee: Myriad Group AG
• Inventors: DELACHANAL, Christophe
• Application Number:
  US13/775,062
• Publication Number:
  US 20130227627A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 725/110
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/2807 Exchanging configuration information on appliance services in a home automation network arrangements for maintenance or administration involving network analysis for automatically determining the actual topology of a network H04L41/12; hardware or software tools for network management using graphical user interfaces H04L41/22; address allocation H04L61/50
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/282 based on user interaction within the home receiver circuitry for displaying additional information being controlled by a remote control apparatus H04N21/42204
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2012/2849 Audio/video appliances
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/41265 having a remote control device for bidirectional communication between the remote control device and client device unidirectional remote control device H04N21/42204
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/414 Specialised client platforms, e.g. receiver in car or embedded in a mobile appliance
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4532 involving end-user characteristics, e.g. viewer profile, preferences monitoring of user activities for profile generation for accessing a video database G06F16/739; user profiles in network data switching protocols H04L67/306; processing of user preferences or user profiles in wireless networks H04W8/18
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4826 using recommendation lists, e.g. of programs or channels sorted out according to their score
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/64322 IP

Abstract

This electronic system, comprises: a first electronic device comprising means for reproducing audio and/or video data; a second electronic device comprising means for transmitting data to be reproduced to the first device; and a third electronic device, connected to the second device and comprising a memory to store personal information associated with a user of the third device. The third device comprises means for computing personalization parameters of the data to be reproduced, based on the personal information, and means for transmitting the computed personalization parameters to the second device, without any transmission of the personalization parameters via the Internet network. The second device comprises means for selecting data to be reproduced in relation to the received personalization parameters, the selecting means being connected to the transmission means.

Claims

1. An electronic system, comprising:

a first electronic device, the first electronic device comprising means for reproducing audio and/or video data;

a second electronic device, the second electronic device being connected to the first electronic device via a first data link, and comprising transmission means to transmits data to be reproduced to the first device;

a third electronic device, the third electronic device being connected to the second electronic device via a second data link, and comprising a memory capable of storing personal information associated with a user of the third device,

wherein the third electronic device further comprises means for computing personalization parameters of the data to be reproduced, from the personal information, and means to transmit the computed personalization parameters to the second electronic device, without any transmission of the personalization parameters via the Internet network, and

in that the second electronic device further comprises means for selecting data to be reproduced in relation to the personalization parameters received from the third electronic device, the selecting means being connected to the transmission means to transmit the selected data to be reproduced to the first device.

2. The electronic system according to claim 1, wherein the third electronic device further comprises means for securing the user'"'"'s personal information in the memory of the third device.

3. The electronic system according to claim 1, wherein the user'"'"'s personal information is stored in the memory of the third device, and is not transmitted outside the third electronic device.

4. The electronic system according to claim 1, wherein the data to be reproduced comprise elements of a man-machine interface, preferably stored in a memory of the second electronic device, without any transmission of the said elements of the man-machine interface via the Internet network.

5. The electronic system according to claim 1, wherein the selecting means are able to select data relating to an electronic television program guide so as only to present the user with television programs related to the user'"'"'s personal information.

6. The electronic system according to claim 1, wherein the electronic system comprises an electronic appliance comprising a box, and wherein the first electronic device and the second electronic device are grouped together in the box of the electronic appliance.

7. The electronic system according to claim 1, wherein the third electronic device is a mobile telephone, preferably a smartphone.

8. The electronic system according to claim 1, wherein the first electronic device is a television and the second electronic device is a set-top box.

9. A local data transmission network, comprising an electronic system according to claim 1,

wherein each of the first and second data links is a wire or wireless short-distance communication link, such as a link having a length of less than 100 meters, and

wherein the transmission means are able to send the computed personalization parameters to the second electronic device without any transmission of the personalization parameters outside the local network.

10. The local network according to claim 9, wherein the short-distance wireless link is a link chosen from the group consisting of:

a wireless link conforming to standard IEEE 802.11, a wireless link based on standard IEEE 802.15.1, and a wireless link conforming to standard IEEE 802.15.4.

11. A method for selecting audio and/or video data to be reproduced on a first electronic device comprising means for reproducing audio and/or video data, the method comprising the following steps:

selecting data, via a second electronic device, to be reproduced on the first electronic device,

transmitting the selected data to the first device for reproduction thereof by the first device,

wherein the method further comprises the following steps;

computing, via a third electronic device, personalization parameters of data to be reproduced on the basis of a user'"'"'s personal information, the said personal information being stored in a memory of the third device, and

transmitting the computed personalization parameters to the second electronic device, without any transmission of the personalization parameters via the Internet network,

the selection of data to be reproduced being performed in relation to the personalization parameters received from the third electronic device.