METHOD FOR CAPTURING, STORING, ACCESSING, AND OUTPUTTING DIGITAL CONTENT

• US 20180203648A1
• Filed: 03/16/2018
• Published: 07/19/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 11/20/2000
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: FlexiJet Technologies Inc..
• Original Assignee: Flexiworld Technologies, Inc.
• Inventors: Chang, William Ho, Liu, Christina Ying
• Granted Patent: US 10,303,411 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1204 resulting in reduced user or operator actions, e.g. presetting, automatic actions, using hardware token storing data
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1247 by conversion to printer ready format
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/126 Job scheduling, e.g. queuing, determine appropriate device
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1288 in client-server-printer device configuration
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1292 Mobile client, e.g. wireless printing
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/102 Bill distribution or payments
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/12 specially adapted for electronic shopping systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/32 using wireless devices
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/3224 Transactions dependent on location of M-devices
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/327 Short range or proximity payments by means of M-devices
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/00 Finance; Insurance; Tax strategies; Processing of corporate or income taxes
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/2805 Home Audio Video Interoperability [HAVI] networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/2809 indicating that an appliance service is present in a home automation network monitoring functionality H04L43/0817; discovery or management thereof, e.g. service location protocol [SLP] or web services, H04L67/51
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/2812 describing content present in a home automation network, e.g. audio video content retrieval from the Internet G06F16/95
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/2834 Switching of information between an external network and a home network access arrangements H04L12/2856
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/2838 Distribution of signals within a home automation network, e.g. involving splitting/multiplexing signals to/from different paths adaptations of television systems for transmission by electric cable for domestic distribution H04N7/106; hybrid transport H04L12/6418; home network arrangements specially adapted for distribution of digital video signals H04N7/24
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2012/2841 Wireless
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2012/2849 Audio/video appliances
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2012/285 Generic home appliances, e.g. refrigerators
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0428 : wherein the data content is protected, e.g. by encrypting or encapsulating the payload
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0492 : by using a location-limited connection, e.g. near-field communication or limited proximity of entities
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/04 : specially adapted for terminals or networks with limited capabilities; specially adapted for terminal portability
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/303 : Terminal profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/51 : Discovery or management thereof, e.g. service location protocol [SLP] or web services
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/56 : Provisioning of proxy services store-and-forward switching systems in data switching networks H04L12/54
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/565 : Conversion or adaptation of application format or content adding application control or application functional data H04L67/561
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/5651 : Reducing the amount or size of exchanged application data
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 999/99 : dummy group

Abstract

A method for capturing and outputting digital content is herein disclosed and enabled, the output system includes an information apparatus, a server, and a client device. The information apparatus includes at least a digital camera and a wireless communication module (e.g., IEEE 802.11 or Bluetooth). The server is accessible by the client device over a network. The information apparatus, using the digital camera, captures digital content and transmits, over the Internet and using the wireless communication module, the digital content to the server for storage. The server generates output data from at least part of the digital content stored at the server, and provides the generated output data from the server to the client device that has security or authentication information for accessing the server. The client device outputs or plays at least part of the digital content at an output device associated with the client device.

Claims

1. A method for outputting digital content, the method comprising:

establishing, via at least one wireless communication module included in an information apparatus, a wireless communication connection with one or more servers over a network that includes the Internet, the one or more servers being distinct devices from the information apparatus;

transmitting, via the at least one wireless communication module included in the information apparatus, a device object that includes device information related to the information apparatus from the information apparatus to the one or more servers over the established wireless communication connection;

capturing, using a digital camera included in an information apparatus, digital content;

providing, via the at least one wireless communication module of the information apparatus, the digital content that is captured by the digital camera of the information apparatus, from the information apparatus to the one or more servers, wherein the one or more servers include a network communication interface, memory or storage for storing at least part of the digital content received from the information apparatus, and server software executable at the one or more servers; and

wherein upon execution of the server software, the method further comprises;

receiving, by the server software at the one or more servers and via the at least one network communication interface, at least part of the digital content from the information apparatus;

storing, by the server software at the one or more servers, the at least part of the received digital content that is received by the server software in the memory or storage of the one or more servers;

receiving, by the server software at the one or more servers, security information or authentication information from a client device for accessing the at least part of the digital content stored by the server software in the memory or storage of the one or more servers, the at least part of the digital content stored in the memory or storage of the one or more servers being captured by the information apparatus and received from the information apparatus, and the client device being a distinct device from the one or more servers and from the information apparatus;

generating, by the server software at the one or more servers, output data for providing to the client device, the output data is related to at least part of the digital content received by the one or more servers from the information apparatus, and the generating of the output data is related, at least in part, to at least a portion of the device object received by the one or more servers from the information apparatus, and the generating of the output data is subsequent to having received the security information or the authentication information from the client device for accessing the at least part of the digital content, the client device being a distinct device from the information apparatus and from the one or more servers; and

providing, by the server software and via the at least one network communication interface of the one or more servers, at least part of the output data from the one or more servers to the client device for outputting or playing at least part of the digital content that was captured by the information apparatus at an output device associated with the client device.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the information apparatus is a digital capturing device.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein the information apparatus is an internet appliance.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein the client device includes an interface for interacting with the user, and wherein the method further comprises:

searching, via the wireless communication module of the client device, for an available information apparatus;

providing, via the interface, to the user with a list of information apparatus found in the search for user selection; and

receiving, via the interface and from the user, a selected information apparatus from among the list of information apparatus provided via the interface.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the information apparatus includes an interface for interacting with the user, and the interface includes hardware or software, individually or in any combination.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the information apparatus further includes at least one of a microphone, a speaker, a mouse, a keyboard, a touch-sensitive or non-touch sensitive screen, push buttons, soft keys, or a stylus, individually or in any combination.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the wireless communication module of the information apparatus is compliant, at least in part, with at least one protocol within IEEE 802.11 standards.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the generation of at least part of the output data includes one or more of an interpretation operation, a conversion operation, a rasterization operation, a scaling operation, a segmentation operation, a color space transform operation, an image enhancement operation, a color correction operation, a compression operation, an encryption operation, or a decryption operation, individually or in any combination.