INFORMATION APPARATUS FOR PLAYING DIGITAL CONTENT THAT IS RECEIVED FROM A DIGITAL CONTENT SERVICE PROVIDED OVER THE INTERNET

• US 20190121585A1
• Filed: 12/10/2018
• Published: 04/25/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 11/01/2000
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Flexiworld Technologies, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Flexiworld Technologies, Inc.
• Inventors: Chang, William Ho, Liu, Christina Ying
• Granted Patent: US 10,866,773 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

Abstract

An information apparatus (e.g., Internet appliance, information pad) and software applications of the information apparatus that includes digital camera or video camera and supporting voice commands for receiving and playing digital content from a service provided over a network (e.g., Internet) are herein disclosed and enabled. The mobile information apparatus may establish a wireless local area network connection to access a service over the Internet. The service may be a subscribed service. While connected to the service, the mobile information apparatus may capture, using the digital camera or video camera, digital content that includes the image or the video; send the captured the digital content to the service; and, thereafter receives, from the service, output data related to the digital content for outputting or playing at display device associated with the information apparatus.

Claims

1. An information apparatus for receiving output data from one or more servers over a network, the network includes the Internet, the output data includes image content, picture content, audio content, or video content, individually or in any combination, the information apparatus comprising:

one or more processors;

memory or storage;

software or firmware stored at least in part in the memory or storage;

a digital capturing device for capturing images or for capturing video;

a display screen that is at least an output device for outputting or rendering content;

one or more wireless communication units that include wireless communication circuitry for wireless communication, the wireless communication includes wireless local area network communication;

wherein upon execution of the software or the firmware by the one or more processors, the information apparatus;

(1) couples, using the wireless communication circuitry of the information apparatus, the information apparatus to a wireless local area network;

(2) establishes, using the wireless communication circuitry of the information apparatus and via wireless local area network, a wireless connection to the one or more servers over the network that includes the Internet;

(3) wirelessly accesses, using the wireless communication circuitry and via the wireless connection, services provided by the one or more servers, the wireless accessing of the services is based, at least in part, on having appropriate authentication information or security information for accessing the services provided by the one or more servers over the network that includes the Internet;

(4) captures, using the digital capturing device, digital content, the digital content includes one or more of a picture, an image or a video, individually or in any combination;

(5) obtains, at the information apparatus, a content object, the content object includes the at least part of the digital content;

(6) wirelessly transmits, using the wireless communication circuitry of the information apparatus, the content object from the information apparatus to the one or more servers over the network that includes the Internet;

(7) wirelessly receives, using the wireless communication circuitry of the information apparatus, output data from the one or more servers over the network, the wireless receiving of the output data being in response to having transmitted the content object, the output data has a relationship, at least in part, to the content object that is transmitted to the one or more servers;

(8) renders or outputs or plays, at the display screen output device, at least part of received output data;

the output data includes at least one of an image content, picture content, or video content, individually or in any combination.