METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING TASK BASED MULTIMEDIA DATA

• US 20140208338A1
• Filed: 01/23/2014
• Published: 07/24/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 01/24/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: P2S Media Group Oy
• Original Assignee: P2S Media Group Oy
• Inventors: RAHJA, Petri, LAURIKARI, Ville, MARKULA, Jussi, RINNE, Timo
• Granted Patent: US 11,202,107 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 725/5
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/612 for unicast
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/231 Content storage operation, e.g. caching movies for short term storage, replicating data over plural servers, prioritizing data for deletion
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/232 Content retrieval operation locally within server, e.g. reading video streams from disk arrays storage management G06F3/0604; details of querying and searching of video data from a database G06F16/739
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47815 Electronic shopping payment schemes, payment architectures or payment protocols for electronic shopping systems G06Q20/12

Abstract

A method, system and apparatus for providing multimedia data, wherein the method includes defining, by a first user, a task for requesting multimedia data, wherein the task includes criteria for the requested multimedia data; maintaining, by an operator, the defined task based on the criteria, wherein the task being available for a second user; receiving multimedia data, from the second user, in response to the defined task based on the criteria; and maintaining, by an operator, the received multimedia data based on the criteria, wherein the multimedia being available to a third user.

Claims

1. A method for providing multimedia data, the method comprising:

receiving, at a server apparatus, task information for requesting multimedia data from a first user, wherein the task information comprising criteria for the requested multimedia data;

maintaining, by the server apparatus, the task information, wherein the task information being available for a second user based on the criteria;

receiving multimedia data at the server apparatus, from the second user, in response to the task information based on the criteria;

maintaining, at the server apparatus, the received multimedia data, wherein the multimedia data being available to a third user;

receiving, at the server apparatus, a request from the third user for the multimedia data; and

transmitting the multimedia data for the third user.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising;

receiving, at the server apparatus, a request from the third user for all multimedia data relating to the task information.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising;

receiving, at the server apparatus, a request from the third user for only some of the multimedia data relating to the task information.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising;

receiving, at the server apparatus, a request from the third user for future multimedia data relating to the task information.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the criteria comprising at least one of the following:

subject for the multimedia data;

location for the multimedia data;

identified second users;

submission time for the multimedia data;

capturing time for the multimedia data;

availability time for the multimedia data to third users; and

ownership for the multimedia data.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the criteria comprising at least one of the following:

submission price information for the received multimedia data; and

service price information for the transmitted multimedia data.

7. The method of claim 6, further comprising:

receiving payment from the third user based on the service price information; and

providing payment for the first user, the second user and an operator of the server apparatus based on the submission price information and the service price information.

8. The method of claim 5, further comprising:

checking location information from metadata of the received multimedia data;

comparing the location information to the location comprised by the criteria; and

maintaining the multimedia data in response to a successful comparison step.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

defining the task information, by the first user, for requesting multimedia data using a client application of a first user apparatus;

capturing multimedia data, by the second user, using a client application of a second user apparatus; and

receiving multimedia data, by an operator, using a server application of a server apparatus.

10. The method of claim 9, further comprising:

provisioning the task information available to a second user located in a geographical location defined by the criteria of the task information;

receiving multimedia data and location information at the server apparatus, from the second user;

checking the location information, by the server apparatus, and

approving multimedia data in response to the location information being within the geographical area.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein the multimedia data comprising at least one of the following:

a digital still image; and

a video stream.

12. The method of claim 10, further comprising:

receiving multimedia data at the server apparatus, from the second user, wherein a user apparatus of the second user comprising a client application of a service whose server application is running on the server apparatus and the client application capturing the multimedia data and metadata for the captured multimedia data from metadata elements of the user apparatus.

13. A server apparatus comprising:

a communication interface for transceiving multimedia data;

at least one processor; and

at least one memory including computer program code;

the at least one memory and the computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the server apparatus to;

receive task information for requesting multimedia data from a first user, wherein the task information comprising criteria for the requested multimedia data;

maintain the task information, wherein the task information being available for a second user based on the criteria;

receive multimedia data from the second user, in response to the task information based on the criteria;

maintain the received multimedia data, wherein the multimedia data being available to a third user;

receive a request from the third user for the multimedia data; and

transmit the multimedia data for the third user.

14. A computer program embodied on a computer readable medium comprising computer executable program code which,

when executed by at least one processor of a server apparatus, causes the server apparatus to:

receive task information for requesting multimedia data from a first user, wherein the task information comprising criteria for the requested multimedia data;

maintain the task information, wherein the task information being available for a second user based on the criteria;

receive multimedia data from the second user, in response to the task information based on the criteria;

maintain the received multimedia data, wherein the multimedia data being available to a third user;

receive a request from the third user for the multimedia data; and

transmit the multimedia data for the third user.

15. A system for providing multimedia data, the system comprising:

a first user apparatus comprising;

a communication interface for transceiving data;

at least one processor; and

at least one memory including computer program code;

the at least one memory and the computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus to;

define task information for requesting multimedia data, wherein the task information comprising criteria for the requested multimedia data; and

transmit the defined task information to a server apparatus;

a second user apparatus comprising;

a camera for capturing multimedia data;

a communication interface for transceiving data;

at least one processor; and

at least one memory including computer program code;

the at least one memory and the computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus to;

receive the defined task information from the server apparatus; and

transmit captured multimedia data, to the server apparatus, in response to the defined task information based on the criteria;

the server apparatus comprising;

a communication interface for transceiving data;

at least one processor; and

at least one memory including computer program code;

the at least one memory and the computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus to;

receive the defined task information;

maintain the defined task information being available for a second user;

receive multimedia data, from the second user, in response to the defined task information based on the criteria;

maintain the received multimedia data based on the criteria, wherein the multimedia being available to a third user;

receive a request for the multimedia data from the third user; and

transmit the multimedia data for the third user; and

a third user apparatus comprising;

a communication interface for transceiving data;

at least one processor; and

at least one memory including computer program code;

the at least one memory and the computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus to;

transmit a request for the multimedia data for the server apparatus; and

receive the multimedia data from the server apparatus.