CONTENT DOWNLOAD AND SYNCHRONIZATION

• US 20140167686A1
• Filed: 12/18/2013
• Published: 06/19/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 12/18/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: eIngot LLC
• Original Assignee: eIngot LLC
• Inventors: Raduchel, William J.
• Application Number:
  US14/133,185
• Publication Number:
  US 20140167686A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 320/107
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/26 Power supply means, e.g. regulation thereof for memories G11C
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/266 Arrangements to supply power to external peripherals either directly from the computer or under computer control, e.g. supply of power through the communication port, computer controlled power-strips
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 5/00 Circuit arrangements for transfer of electric power between ac networks and dc networks H02J3/36 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 50/10 using inductive coupling
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 50/12 of the resonant type
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 50/40 using two or more transmitting or receiving devices H02J50/50 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 50/80 involving the exchange of data, concerning supply or distribution of electric power, between transmitting devices and receiving devices
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/00 Circuit arrangements for charging or depolarising batteries or for supplying loads from batteries
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/00036 Charger exchanging data with battery
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/00047 with provisions for charging different types of batteries
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/02 for charging batteries from ac mains by converters
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/12 specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/303 Terminal profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/55 Push-based network services

Abstract

Methods, systems, and apparatus for a network-enabled power charging device comprising a processor and a computer readable medium coupled to the processor having instructions stored thereon which, if executed by the processor, cause the network enabled power charging device to perform operations comprising charging, using the network-enabled power charging device, an energy storage component of a user device, determining, by the network-enabled power charging device, a profile associated with the user device, accessing, by the network-enabled power charging device and based on determining the profile associated with the user device, content specified by the profile associated with the user device, loading, using a network interface, the specified content, and enabling, by the network-enabled power charging device, the user device to access the specified content.

Claims

1. A network-enabled power charging device comprising:

a processor; and

a computer-readable medium coupled to the processor having instructions stored thereon which, if executed by the processor, cause the network-enabled power charging device to perform operations comprising;

charging, using the network-enabled power charging device, an energy storage component of a user device;

determining, by the network-enabled power charging device, a profile associated with the user device;

accessing, by the network-enabled power charging device and based on determining the profile associated with the user device, content specified by the profile associated with the user device;

loading, using a network interface, the specified content; and

enabling, by the network-enabled power charging device, the user device to access the specified content.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein charging an energy storage component of a user device and enabling the user device to access the specified content occur simultaneously.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein charging an energy storage component of a user device comprises charging the energy storage component of the user device in response to the user device being coupled to the network-enabled power charging device.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein determining a profile associated with the user device comprises determining specific content associated with the user device.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein loading content specified by the profile associated with the user device comprises loading the specified content by downloading the specified content from a network.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein accessing content specified by the profile associated with the user device comprises accessing the specified content in response to the user device being coupled to the network-enabled power charging device.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein accessing content specified by the profile associated with the user device comprises accessing the specified content in response to the user device not being coupled to the network-enabled power charging device.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein accessing content specified by the profile associated with the user device comprises accessing the specified content at regular intervals.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein accessing content specified by the profile associated with the user device comprises accessing the specified content based on detecting, by the network-enabled power charging device, that additional specified content is available.

10. The system of claim 1, wherein the operations further comprise:

determining, by the network-enabled power charging device, a device state associated with the network-enabled power charging device; and

outputting, by the network-enabled power charging device, an indication of the device state.

11. A computer-implemented method comprising:

charging, using the network-enabled power charging device, an energy storage component of a user device;

determining, by the network-enabled power charging device, a profile associated with the user device;

accessing, by the network-enabled power charging device and based on determining the profile associated with the user device, content specified by the profile associated with the user device;

loading, using a network interface, the specified content; and

enabling, by the network-enabled power charging device, the user device to access the specified content.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein charging an energy storage component of a user device and enabling the user device to access the specified content occur simultaneously.

13. The method of claim 11, wherein charging an energy storage component of a user device comprises charging the energy storage component of the user device in response to the user device being coupled to the network-enabled power charging device.

14. The method of claim 11, wherein determining a profile associated with the user device comprises determining specific content associated with the user device.

15. The method of claim 11, wherein loading content specified by the profile associated with the user device comprises loading the specified content by downloading the specified content from a network.

16. The method of claim 11, wherein accessing content specified by the profile associated with the user device comprises accessing the specified content in response to the user device being coupled to the network-enabled power charging device.

17. The method of claim 11, wherein accessing content specified by the profile associated with the user device comprises accessing the specified content in response to the user device not being coupled to the network-enabled power charging device.

18. The method of claim 11, wherein accessing content specified by the profile associated with the user device comprises accessing the specified content at regular intervals.

19. The method of claim 11, wherein accessing content specified by the profile associated with the user device comprises accessing the specified content based on detecting, by the network-enabled power charging device, that additional specified content is available.

20. The method of claim 11, wherein the operations further comprise:

determining, by the network-enabled power charging device, a device state associated with the network-enabled power charging device; and

outputting, by the network-enabled power charging device, an indication of the device state.