SmartLight Interaction System

• US 20140129725A1
• Filed: 11/05/2013
• Published: 05/08/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 11/07/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Panasonic Corporation Of North America (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Panasonic Corporation Of North America (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Junqua, Jean-Claude, Kryze, David, Teixeira, Ricardo
• Application Number:
  US14/071,691
• Publication Number:
  US 20140129725A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/227
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1069 Session establishment or de-establishment
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/403 Arrangements for multi-party communication, e.g. for conferences data switching systems for conference H04L12/18; arrangements for connecting several subscribers to a common circuit, i.e. affording conference facilities H04M3/56; television conferencing systems H04N7/15

Abstract

The interfacing computer system mediates connections between user devices and peripheral devices. The system includes a platform server computer having an input/output port that supports communication with a plurality of devices using the IP protocol. The platform server computer is programmed to provide a peripheral device registration function whereby information about a peripheral device is stored in the associated memory. The platform server computer is further programmed to provide a user device authentication function whereby information about a user device is stored in the associated memory and accessed by the at least one processor to mediate how a registered peripheral device may be accessed by said user device. The platform server computer also provides an information routing function whereby source information originating from a first device is routed through the input/output port to a device other than the first device and according to instructions provided to the platform server computer by a user device.

Claims

1. An interfacing computer system to mediate connections between user devices and peripheral devices, comprising:

a platform server computer having an input/output port that supports communication with a plurality of devices using a predefined protocol, and having at least one processor with associated memory;

the platform server computer programmed to provide a peripheral device registration function whereby information about a peripheral device is stored in the associated memory;

the platform server computer programmed to provide a user device authentication function whereby information about a user device is stored in the associated memory and accessed by the at least one processor to mediate how a registered peripheral device may be accessed by said user device; and

the platform server computer programmed to provide an information routing function whereby source information originating from a first device is routed through the input/output port to a device other than the first device and according to instructions provided to the platform server computer by a user device.

2. The interfacing computer system of claim 1 wherein the platform server computer is programmed to provide a transcoding function whereby said source information communicating through the input/output port is converted into destination information having a protocol different from that of the source information.

3. The interfacing computer system of claim 1 wherein the predefined protocol is the Internet Protocol (IP).

4. The interfacing computer system of claim 1 further comprising a wireless access point coupled to said input/output port that supports communication with said plurality of devices.

5. The interfacing computer system of claim 1 wherein the platform server computer provides a browser interface viewable through a user device.

6. The interfacing computer system of claim 1 wherein the platform server computer is programmed to deliver executable program code to a user device.

7. The interfacing computer system of claim 6 wherein the executable program code causes the user device to capture information from the screen of the user device and send the captured information to the input/output port of the platform server computer.

8. The interfacing computer system of claim 1 wherein the platform server computer is programmed to generate a changing session number that is pushed to a display device located in a room and wherein a user device is authenticated by supplying the session number back to the platform server.

9. The interfacing computer system of claim 1 wherein the peripheral device is a display device and wherein the user device authentication function permits plural user devices to concurrently send information to the display device.

10. The interfacing computer system of claim 9 wherein the display device presents information from said plural user devices, each in separate regions within a display space of the display device.

11. The interfacing computer system of claim 9 wherein the display device presents information from said plural user devices in a manner where an image from one user device overlays an image from another user device.