Multimedia access system

• US 7,983,246 B2
• Filed: 12/19/2005
• Issued: 07/19/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 12/20/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Lee, Jin Soo
• Primary Examiner(s): Sheikh; Ayaz R
• Assistant Examiner(s): HALIYUR, VENKATESH N
• Application Number:
  US11/312,015
• Publication Number:
  US 20060165083A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,038 Days
• Field of Search: 370225-463, 709203-231
• US Class Current: 370/352
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/2596 Translation of addresses of the same type other than IP, e.g. translation from MAC to MAC addresses
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/4588 containing mobile subscriber information, e.g. home subscriber server [HSS]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/765 intermediate
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/18 Information format or content conversion, e.g. adaptation by the network of the transmitted or received information for the purpose of wireless delivery to users or terminals
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 80/12 Application layer protocols, e.g. WAP [Wireless Application Protocol]

Abstract

A multimedia access system includes: a database including user equipment spec information; an application server for transcoding multimedia data to be transmitted in accordance with user equipment spec information of a receiver side in the database; and an addressing unit for addressing a transmission packet so that that the multimedia data to be transmitted is transcoded by the application server.

Claims

1. A plug-in service method performed at a user equipment, the method comprising:

receiving contents data, wherein the contents data comprises media data;

recording specification information into a predetermined field of a Session Initialization Protocol (SIP);

transmitting the specification information to a server through the SIP;

transmitting a message including a user equipment ID of the user equipment to the server;

receiving a plug-in software from the server, the plug-in software being configured to be installed on the user equipment and process the contents data to complement a process for the contents data at the user equipment; and

processing the contents data by executing the received plug-in software,

wherein the server retrieves the specification information of the user equipment from database using the user equipment ID uniquely identifying the user equipment in a mobile wireless network, analyzes the retrieved specification information and the contents data based on the SIP to determine whether the user equipment needs the plug-in software for processing the contents data, and transmits the plug-in software to the user equipment when the user equipment needs the plug-in software, and

wherein the specification information is selected from a group consisting of processer information, operating system information, resource information, and codec information.

2. A user equipment comprising:

a module for receiving contents data, the contents data comprising media data;

a specification storage for storing specification information;

a specification generating module for generating and transmitting the specification information to a server, wherein the specification information is recorded into a predetermined field of a Session Initialization Protocol (SIP) and the specification information is transmitted through the SIP;

a module for transmitting a message including a user equipment ID of the user equipment to the server; and

a module for receiving and executing a plug-in software transmitted from the server to process the contents data,

wherein the server retrieves the specification information of the user equipment from database using the user equipment ID uniquely identifying the user equipment in a mobile wireless network, analyzes the retrieved specification information and the contents data based on the SIP to determine whether the user equipment needs the plug-in software for processing the contents data, and transmits the plug-in software to the user equipment when the user equipment needs the plug-in software, and

wherein the specification information is selected from a group consisting of processer information, operating system information, resource information, and codec information.