MEDIA PROJECTION METHOD AND DEVICE, CONTROL TERMINAL AND CLOUD SERVER

• US 20150365453A1
• Filed: 06/09/2015
• Published: 12/17/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 06/11/2014
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.
• Inventors: Cheng, Dongwu
• Application Number:
  US14/734,980
• Publication Number:
  US 20150365453A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/613 for the control of the source by the destination control signals issued by the client directed to the server or network components specially adapted for selective content distribution H04N21/637
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/00 Selective content distribution, e.g. interactive television or video on demand [VOD] real-time bi-directional transmission of motion video data H04N7/14 ; broadcast or conference over packet switching networks H04L12/18
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2747 Remote storage of video programs received via the downstream path, e.g. from the server
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4325 by playing back content from the storage medium reproduction of recorded television signals H04N5/76; reproduction of recorded television signals H04N9/79
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/43615 Interfacing a Home Network, e.g. for connecting the client to a plurality of peripherals home Audio Video Interoperability [HAVI] data switching networks H04L12/2805
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/44231 Monitoring of peripheral device or external card, e.g. to detect processing problems in a handheld device or the failure of an external recording device configuring of peripheral devices in general G06F9/4411; reporting information sensed by appliance or service execution status of appliance services in a home automation network H04L12/2823; monitoring the status of connected device in data switched networks H04L43/0817

Abstract

A media projection method, a media projection device, a control terminal, and a cloud server are disclosed. The media projection method includes: establishing a playback control channel between a control terminal and a media projection device; sending, by the control terminal, a media playback request message to the media projection device over the playback control channel to cause the media projection device to enable a service of playing a corresponding media resource according to the media playback request message. The present disclosure can rapidly realize multi-screen interaction of third-party videos.

Claims

1. A method implemented by a first device, the method comprising:

establishing a playback control channel with a second device; and

sending a media playback request message to the second device via the playback control channel to cause the second device to initiate a service of playing a media resource according to the media playback request message.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising establishing a persistent connection between the first device and the second device, wherein the playback control channel is established over the persistent connection.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

establishing one or more playback control channels between the first device and one or more other second devices; and

sending one or more media playback request messages to the one or more other second devices via the one or more playback control channels to cause the one or more other second devices to initiate a respective service of playing a respective media resource.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising sending a media control message to the second device via the playback control channel to cause the second device to perform a media control operation according to the media control message.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the media control message comprises a playback stop message and a playback switch message.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

submitting a query for obtaining presentation information of the media resource to a media distribution server;

receiving the presentation information of the media resource from the media distribution server; and

presenting the media resource according to the presentation information.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

establishing a plurality of playback control channels between the first device and a plurality of second devices; and

sending a plurality of media playback request messages to the plurality of second devices via the plurality of playback control channels to cause the plurality of second devices to play one or more media resources in synchronization with each other.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising transmitting one or more pieces of video content from the first device to a cloud server for storage, wherein sending the media playback request message to the second device further causes the second device to obtain the one or more pieces of video content from the cloud server for playing the one or more pieces of video content in a display of the second device.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the media resource comprises one or more of:

a video, an audio, a picture and a web page.

10. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

obtaining an instance of inter-device communications with the second device after establishing the playback control channel with the second device; and

monitoring activities of the second device via the playback control channel.

11. The method of claim 10, further comprising:

detecting a message of activating a media player of the second device via the playback control channel; and

performing a corresponding operation on the second device, the corresponding operation comprising starting a projection of the media resource, stopping or switching a playback of the media resource.

12. The method of claim 10, further comprising:

detecting a message of disabling a media player of the second device via the playback control channel; and

discontinuing a projection of the media resource in the second device.

13. A first device comprising:

one or more processors;

memory;

a second playback control channel establishing module stored in the memory and executable by the one or more processors to establish a playback control channel between the first device and a second device;

a receiving module stored in the memory and executable by the one or more processors to receive a media playback request message from the second device over the playback control channel; and

a playback service module stored in the memory and executable by the one or more processors to enable a service of playing a media resource according to the media playback request message received by the receiving module.

14. The first device of claim 13, further comprising a first streaming media channel establishing module to establish a streaming media channel between the first device and a cloud server.

15. The first device of claim 14, wherein the playback service module sends to a media resource request message for acquiring the media resource from the cloud server according to the media playback request message, receives the media resource from the cloud server over the streaming media channel, and plays the media resource.

16. The first device of claim 13, further comprising a media player acquisition module to determine a type of the media resource, and to acquire a media player for playing media resources of the type from a cloud server, wherein the playback service module plays the media resource using the acquired media player.

17. The first device of claim 13, wherein the receiving module receives a media control message from the second device via the playback control channel, the media control message comprising one of a playback stop message or a playback switch message, wherein the playback service module performs a corresponding media control operation based on whether media control message comprises the playback stop message or the playback switch message.

18. One or more computer-readable media storing executable instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform acts comprising:

establishing a streaming media channel between a cloud server and a media projection device;

receiving a media resource request message from the media projection device;

searching for a media resource according to the media resource request message; and

sending the media resource to the media projection device over the streaming media channel.

19. The one or more computer-readable media of claim 18, the acts further comprising:

establishing one or more streaming media channels between the cloud server and one or more other media projection devices; and

sending the media resource to the one or more other media projection devices over the one or more streaming media channels.

20. The one or more computer-readable media of claim 18, wherein the media resource comprises one or more of:

a video, an audio, a picture and a web page.