TECHNOLOGIES FOR A SEAMLESS DATA STREAMING EXPERIENCE

• US 20160285938A1
• Filed: 03/27/2015
• Published: 09/29/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 03/27/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Original Assignee: Tomer Rider
• Inventors: Rider, Tomer, Tatourian, Igor
• Granted Patent: US 10,425,459 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/762 at the source reformatting of additional data in video distribution servers H04N21/2355
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/54 Presence management, e.g. monitoring or registration for receipt of user log-on information, or the connection status of the users

Abstract

Technologies for seamless data streaming include a control server and one or more client computing devices. A client computing device receives user presence data indicative of whether a user is nearby from one or more sensors. The client computing device may receive user interest data indicative of the user'"'"'s interest level in the current data stream from one or more sensors. The control server identifies available client computing devices based on the user presence data, selects a target client computing device, and causes the data stream to transition from the current client computing device to the target client computing device. The target client computing device may be selected based on proximity of the user or the user'"'"'s interest level in the data stream. The volume or balance of the data stream may be adjusted to provide a smooth transition between client computing devices. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Claims

1. A computing device for a seamless data streaming experience, the computing device comprising:

a user presence module to receive user presence data from a plurality of remote computing devices, wherein the user presence data is indicative of whether a user is nearby each of the plurality of remote computing devices;

a device register module to identify one or more available computing devices of the plurality of remote computing devices based on the user presence data in response to a determination that the user is nearby each of the available computing devices; and

a device transition module to (i) select a target computing device of the available computing devices and (ii) cause a data stream to transition from a current computing device to the target computing device.

2. The computing device of claim 1, wherein to select the target computing device of the available computing devices comprises to select the target computing device based on proximity of the target computing device to the user.

3. The computing device of claim 1, further comprising a user interest module to:

receive user interest data from the current computing device, wherein the user interest data is indicative of an interest level of the user in the data stream; and

determine a user interest level as a function of the user interest data;

wherein the device transition module is further to determine whether to cause the data stream to transition based on the user interest level; and

wherein to cause the data stream to transition from the current computing device to the target computing device comprises to cause the data stream to transition from the current computing device to the target computing device in response to a determination to cause the data stream to transition based on the user interest level.

4. The computing device of claim 3, further comprising a user detection module to:

identify a plurality of users based on the user presence data, wherein each of the plurality of users is nearby a corresponding available computing device of the available computing devices; and

identify a primary user of the plurality of users.

5. The computing device of claim 4, wherein:

the user detection module is further update a user context model based on the user interest level; and

to identify the primary user comprises to identify the primary user based on the user context model.

6. The computing device of claim 1, wherein to cause the data stream to transition from a current computing device to the target computing device comprises to adjust a data stream playback parameter to transition from the current computing device to the target computing device.

7. The computing device of claim 1, wherein to cause the data stream to transition from a current computing device to the target computing device comprises to communicate with the target computing device to cause the target computing device to initiate playing of the data stream.

8. One or more computer-readable storage media comprising a plurality of instructions that in response to being executed cause a computing device to:

receive user presence data from a plurality of remote computing devices, wherein the user presence data is indicative of whether a user is nearby each of the plurality of remote computing devices;

identify one or more available computing devices of the plurality of remote computing devices based on the user presence data in response to determining that the user is nearby each of the available computing devices;

select a target computing device of the available computing devices; and

cause a data stream to transition from a current computing device to the target computing device.

9. The one or more computer-readable storage media of claim 8, wherein to select the target computing device of the available computing devices comprises to select the target computing device based on proximity of the target computing device to the user.

10. The one or more computer-readable storage media of claim 8, further comprising a plurality of instructions that in response to being executed cause the computing device to:

receive user interest data from the current computing device, wherein the user interest data is indicative of an interest level of the user in the data stream;

determine a user interest level as a function of the user interest data; and

determine whether to cause the data stream to transition based on the user interest level;

wherein to cause the data stream to transition from the current computing device to the target computing device comprises to cause the data stream to transition from the current computing device to the target computing device in response to determining to cause the data stream to transition based on the user interest level.

11. The one or more computer-readable storage media of claim 10, further comprising a plurality of instructions that in response to being executed cause the computing device to:

identify a plurality of users based on the user presence data, wherein each of the plurality of users is nearby a corresponding available computing device of the available computing devices; and

identify a primary user of the plurality of users.

12. The one or more computer-readable storage media of claim 8, wherein to cause the data stream to transition from a current computing device to the target computing device comprises to adjust a data stream playback parameter to transition from the current computing device to the target computing device.

13. The one or more computer-readable storage media of claim 8, wherein to cause the data stream to transition from a current computing device to the target computing device comprises to communicate with the target computing device to cause the target computing device to initiate playing the data stream.

14. A computing device for a seamless data streaming experience, the computing device comprising:

a user presence module to (i) receive user presence data from one or more sensors of the computing device, wherein the user presence data is indicative of whether a user is nearby the computing device and (ii) transmit the user presence data to a control server;

a data stream module to receive a data stream from a data stream source; and

a user interest module to (i) receive user interest data from one or more sensors of the computing device, wherein the user interest data is indicative of an interest level of the user in the data stream and (ii) transmit the user interest data to the control server.

15. The computing device of claim 14, wherein to receive the user presence data comprises to receive user presence data from a camera, an audio sensor, or a proximity sensor of the computing device.

16. The computing device of claim 14, wherein to receive the user presence data comprises to receive device location data from a location device of the computing device.

17. The computing device of claim 14, wherein the user presence module is further to determine whether the user is nearby the computing device based on the user presence data.

18. The computing device of claim 14, wherein to receive the user interest data comprises to receive user interest data from a camera, an audio sensor, or a skin conductance sensor of the computing device.

19. The computing device of claim 14, wherein the data stream module is further to:

receive, from a control server, a command to transition the data stream; and

transition the data stream in response to receipt of the command to transition the data stream.

20. The computing device of claim 19, wherein to transition the data stream comprises to transfer a forward cache of the data stream to a second computing device.

21. One or more computer-readable storage media comprising a plurality of instructions that in response to being executed cause a computing device to:

receive user presence data from one or more sensors of the computing device, wherein the user presence data is indicative of whether a user is nearby the computing device;

transmit the user presence data to a control server;

receive a data stream from a data stream source;

receive user interest data from one or more sensors of the computing device, wherein the user interest data is indicative of an interest level of the user in the data stream; and

transmit the user interest data to the control server.

22. The one or more computer-readable storage media of claim 21, wherein to receive the user presence data comprises to receive user presence data from a camera, an audio sensor, or a proximity sensor of the computing device.

23. The one or more computer-readable storage media of claim 21, wherein to receive the user presence data comprises to receive device location data from a location device of the computing device.

24. The one or more computer-readable storage media of claim 21, further comprising a plurality of instructions that in response to being executed cause the computing device to determine whether the user is nearby the computing device based on the user presence data.

25. The one or more computer-readable storage media of claim 21, further comprising a plurality of instructions that in response to being executed cause the computing device to:

receive, from a control server, a command to transition the data stream; and

transition the data stream in response to receiving the command to transition the data stream.