MOBILE DEVICE INTERMEDIARY FOR CONTENT ANALYSIS

• US 20150077548A1
• Filed: 09/13/2013
• Published: 03/19/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 09/13/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: AT&T Mobility II LLC (AT&T, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: AT&T Mobility II LLC (AT&T, Inc.)
• Inventors: Meredith, Sheldon Kent, Fix, Jeremy, Kosseifi, Mario
• Application Number:
  US14/026,910
• Publication Number:
  US 20150077548A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/143
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/19634 Electrical details of the system, e.g. component blocks for carrying out specific functions
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/19658 Telephone systems used to communicate with a camera, e.g. PSTN, GSM, POTS
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/009 Signalling of the alarm condition to a substation whose identity is signalled to a central station, e.g. relaying alarm signals in order to extend communication range
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/183 for receiving images from a single remote source
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/027 using movement velocity, acceleration information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/90 Services for handling of emergency or hazardous situations, e.g. earthquake and tsunami warning systems [ETWS]

Abstract

A mobile device intermediary is disclosed. A mobile device intermediary can access content and perform content analysis based on criterion received from a remotely located device. A mobile device intermediary can comprise a consumer electronic mobile device. The mobile device intermediary can facilitate access to a subset of the content by the remotely located device. Distributed analysis of content by a plurality of mobile device intermediaries can facilitate analysis of large volumes of content without needing to transmit the content to a central analysis device. This can reduce the amount of data transmitted over a network. Similarly, this can reduce computational load at the remotely located device. Additionally, a greater level of privacy is accomplished by returning relevant content rather than submitting all content for analysis. A mobile device intermediary can avoid alerting at the mobile device to preserve query privacy and content security.

Claims

1. A mobile device, comprising:

a memory to store instructions; and

a processor coupled to the memory, that facilitates execution of the instructions to perform operations, comprising;

receiving a criterion from a remotely located device, wherein the criterion is associated with determining an occurrence of an entity in content;

receiving the content;

analyzing the content based on the criterion;

determining a subset of the content based on the analyzing; and

facilitating access to the subset of the content for the remotely located device.

2. The mobile device of claim 1, wherein the mobile device is a mobile device primarily intended for use by a consumer in a non-professional capacity.

3. The mobile device of claim 1, wherein the mobile device comprises telephonic features and Internet access via a wireless connection to a wireless network.

4. The mobile device of claim 1, wherein the content is received from another device other than the mobile device or the remotely located device.

5. The mobile device of claim 4, wherein the other device is a content storage device.

6. The mobile device of claim 4, wherein the other device is a surveillance system device.

7. The mobile device of claim 4, wherein the content is received wirelessly from the other device.

8. The mobile device of claim 1, wherein the access to the subset of the content is unavailable for the mobile device.

9. The mobile device of claim 1, wherein the operations further comprise receiving an input, and performing the analyzing in response to the input indicating permission to perform the analyzing.

10. A method, comprising:

receiving, by a mobile device comprising a processor, a criterion from a remotely located device, wherein the criterion is related to selecting a subset of content from a set of content based on determining an instance of an entity in the content;

receiving, by the mobile device, the set of content;

analyzing, by the mobile device, the set of content based on the criterion;

determining, by the mobile device, the subset of content from the set of content based on the analyzing; and

facilitating, by the mobile device, access to the subset of content for the remotely located device.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the receiving comprises receiving the criterion by a mobile device primarily intended for use in a capacity other than for analyzing the set of content.

12. The method of claim 10, wherein the receiving comprises receiving the criterion by a mobile device that facilitates telephonic communication and Internet access via a wireless connection to a wireless network.

13. The method of claim 10, wherein the receiving the set of content comprises receiving at least some of the content from another device other than the mobile device or the remotely located device.

14. The method of claim 10, wherein the receiving the set of content comprises receiving at least some of the content from a surveillance system device other than the mobile device or the remotely located device.

15. The method of claim 10, wherein the accessing the content is unavailable for the mobile device.

16. The method of claim 10, further comprising receiving, by the mobile device, an input representing a permission to perform the analyzing, wherein the analyzing is performed in response to the receiving the input representing the permission.

17. A computer-readable storage medium having instructions stored thereon that, in response to execution, cause a mobile device comprising a processor to perform operations, the operations comprising:

receiving a set of criteria from a remotely located device, wherein the set of criteria relate to identifying an occurrence of a feature in a set of content;

receiving the set of content from a device other than the mobile device or the remotely located device;

analyzing the set of content based on the set of criteria;

determining a subset of content from the set of content based on the analyzing; and

facilitating access to the subset of content for the remotely located device.

18. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 17, wherein the mobile device is a mobile phone.

19. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 17, wherein the accessing the subset of content is unavailable for the mobile device.

20. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 17, wherein the analyzing is performed in response to receiving an input comprising information representing a permission to perform the analyzing.