Peer to peer gesture based modular presentation system

• US 8,046,701 B2
• Filed: 08/07/2003
• Issued: 10/25/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 08/07/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujifilm Business Innovation Corp. (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Fuji Xerox Company Limited (Xerox Holdings Corp.)
• Inventors: Chiu, Patrick, Liu, Qiong, Boreczky, John
• Primary Examiner(s): Huynh, Ba
• Assistant Examiner(s): Augustine, Nicholas
• Application Number:
  US10/636,044
• Publication Number:
  US 20050030255A1
• Time in Patent Office: 3,001 Days
• Field of Search: 709201-205, 709/214, 709231-232, 709/863, 715/730, 715/737, 715/748, 715/751, 715/753, 715/761, 715/766, 715/863, 710/1
• US Class Current: 715/761
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/104 Peer-to-peer [P2P] networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1044 Group management mechanisms management of multicast group membership H04L12/185; reconfiguring of node membership in a computing system to eliminate errors G06F11/1425
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/75 Indicating network or usage conditions on the user display
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/329 in the application layer [OSI layer 7]

Abstract

A peer-to-peer modular presentation system is disclosed for providing improved presentations. The system includes a plurality of displays. Each display is associated with an input device, processor and input/output port. The plurality of displays may include static or mobile wherein each display is aware of the displays immediately surrounding it or of the displays in a remote site during a teleconference. A propagation direction may be configured for at least two of the displays in the system. Propagation may be initiated for multiple displays by generating a gesture input at one display. The gesture input will cause content to be presented in the particular display, and initiate propagation of content along the configured direction in neighboring displays. Content may be fed to a particular display through a stack or other memory that is associated with the display.

Claims

1. A system for providing a sequence of content in a peer-to-peer modular presentation system, comprising:

a plurality of display devices, wherein each display device includes a corresponding plurality of a processor and memory system to control each corresponding display device, and wherein each display device neighbors at least one other display device and at least three of the plurality of display devices are in visual proximity to each other, and wherein each display device communicates within a peer-to-peer network;

an input device that receives input of a gesture to move a first content from a first display device of the plurality of display devices to a second display device, wherein a second content of the second display device is moved from the second display device of the plurality of display devices to a third display device, wherein a propagation order of a third content followed by the second content followed by the first content represents a sequence; and

wherein the processor corresponding to the first display device

interprets a direction to move the first content from the first display device based on the gesture, wherein the gesture is made with a flick which indicates content to be moved and a direction without designating a destination display device,

determines the destination display device to which the first content is to be moved, based on the direction indicated by the gesture and the position of the plurality of display devices, wherein the destination display device is the second display device,

establishes a peer-to-peer connection between the first display device, the second display device, and the third display device,

propagates the first content of the first display device to the second display device using the peer-to-peer connection,

instructs the second display device to propagate the second content of the second display device to the third display device using the peer-to-peer connection, wherein the third display device is determined based on the direction indicated by the gesture, and

wherein initiating the gesture changes the content displayed on all of the first display device, the second display device and the third display device.

2. The system of claim 1 wherein each of the plurality of display devices is configured to:

receive new content identification information;

transmit old content identification information; and

present content associated with the new content identification information.

3. The system of claim 2 wherein new content identification information is received from a processor associated with a neighboring display device in the reverse propagation direction, the old content identification information is transmitted to a processor associated with a neighboring display device in the forward propagation direction, the forward propagation direction derived from the gesture input.

4. The system of claim 2 wherein receiving new content identification information includes:

retrieving new content identification information from a memory stack.

12. The system of claim 1, wherein the content of the third display device is automatically propagated on another display device in the plurality of display devices.

19. The system of claim 1, wherein the gesture is made from a device selected from the group consisting of keyboards, mouse devices, joysticks, microphones, UV sensors, motion detectors and laser pointers.

23. The system of claim 1, wherein the at least three display devices in visual proximity to each communicate through a server.

26. The system of claim 1, wherein the at least three display devices in visual proximity to each communicate through a peer to peer service.

5. A method of providing content in a peer-to-peer modular presentation system, the method comprising:

providing having a plurality of display devices, wherein each display device includes a corresponding plurality of a processor and memory system to control each corresponding display device, and wherein at least three of the plurality of display devices are in visual proximity to each other, and wherein each display device communicates within a peer-to-peer network;

the method comprising;

receiving input of a gesture to move a sequence of content including a first content and a second content, wherein the first content is presented on a first display device of the plurality of display devices, wherein the gesture initiates propagation of content from right to left which indicates content to be moved and a direction without designating a destination display device;

interpreting a direction to move the first content from the first display device based on the gesture;

determining the destination display device to which the first content is to be moved based on the direction indicated by the gesture and the relative position of the plurality of display devices, wherein the destination display device is a second display device, and determining a third display device to which the second content is to be moved based on the direction indicated by the gesture and the relative position of the plurality of display devices, wherein the first display device is on the right of the second display device and the second display device is on the right of the third display device;

establishing a peer-to-peer connection between the first display device, the second display device, and the third display device;

propagating the first content of the first display device to the second display device using the peer-to-peer connection,

propagating the second content of the second display device to the third display device using the peer-to-peer connection, and

presenting the first content at the second display device and the second content at the third display device, wherein initiating the gesture simultaneously changes the content displayed at both the first display device, the second display device and the third display device.

6. The method of claim 5 wherein receiving gesture input includes:

receiving input on a touch screen display.

7. The method of claim 5 wherein presenting the second content at the third display device includes retrieving a second URL and sending the second URL to the third display device.

8. The method of claim 5 wherein presenting the first content at the second display device includes sending a first URL to the second display device.

13. The method of claim 5, wherein the content of the third display device is automatically presented to another display device in the plurality of display devices.

20. The method of claim 5, wherein the gesture is made from a device selected from the group consisting of keyboards, mouse devices, joysticks, microphones, UV sensors, motion detectors and laser pointers.

24. The method of claim 5, wherein the at least three display devices in visual proximity to each communicate through a server.

27. The method of claim 5, wherein the at least three display devices in visual proximity to each communicate through a peer to peer service.

9. A computer readable medium with instructions for execution by a computer for providing a sequence of content in a peer-to-peer modular presentation system, wherein the instructions, when executed by the computer, cause the computer to execute the steps of:

providing having a plurality of display devices, wherein each display device includes a corresponding plurality of a processor and memory system to control each corresponding display device, and wherein at least three of the plurality of display devices are in physical and visual proximity to each other, wherein each display device communicates within a peer-to-peer network;

the instructions comprising;

receiving input of a gesture to move a first content presented on a first display device, wherein the gesture indicates content to be moved and a direction without designating a destination display device, and wherein the first content is all the information displayed on the first display device, and wherein a second content of the second display device is moved from the second display device of the plurality of display devices to a thrid display device, wherein a propagation order of a third content followed by the second content followed by the first content represents a sequence;

interpreting a direction to move the content from the first display device based on the gesture;

determining the destination display device to which the first content is to be moved based on the direction indicated by the gesture and the relative position of the plurality of display devices, wherein the destination display device is a second display device;

establishing a peer-to-peer connection between the first display device,

the second display device, and the third display device;

propagating the first content of the first display device to the second display device using the peer-to-peer connection;

propagating the second content of the second display device to the third display device using the peer-to-peer connection; and

presenting the first content at the second display device, wherein a propagation order of the second content followed by the first content represents the sequence, wherein initiating the gesture simultaneously changes the content displayed at both the first display device, the second display device, and the third display device.

10. The computer readable medium of claim 9 wherein receiving input of the gesture includes:

receiving input on a touch screen display.

11. The computer readable medium of claim 9 wherein presenting the first content at the second display device includes sending a first URL to the second display device.

14. The computer readable medium of claim 9, wherein the instructions further provide for the second content of the second display device to be automatically presented to a third display device in the plurality of display devices.

15. The computer readable medium of claim 9, wherein the instructions further provide that a third display device is in visual proximity to both the first display device and the second display device.

16. The computer readable medium of claim 15, wherein the instructions further provide that a content of the third display device is automatically presented to another display device in the plurality of display devices.

17. The computer readable medium of claim 11, wherein the instructions further provide that presenting the second content at a third display device includes retrieving a second URL and sending the second URL to the third display device.

21. The computer readable medium of claim 9, wherein the gesture is made from a device selected from the group consisting of keyboards, mouse devices, joysticks, microphones, UV sensors, motion detectors and laser pointers.

18. A system for providing content in a peer-to-peer modular presentation system, comprising:

a plurality of display devices, wherein each display device includes a corresponding plurality of a processor and memory system to control each corresponding display device, and wherein each display device neighbors at least one other display device, wherein each display device is aware of the neighboring display devices, wherein each display device remains a discrete separately controlled display device, and wherein each display device communicates within a peer-to-peer network;

a sequence of content including a first content and a second content;

an input device that receives input of a gesture to move a content from a first display device of the plurality of display devices, wherein the gesture is a movement from right to left using a finger, wherein the movement from right to left specifies a starting point and a direction; and

wherein the processor corresponding to the first display device,

interprets a direction to move the first content from the first display device based on the gesture, wherein the gesture does not designate a destination display device,

determines the destination display device to which the first content is to be moved, based on the direction indicated by the gesture and the position of the plurality of display devices, wherein the destination display device is a second display device,

establishes a peer-to-peer connection between the first display device, the second display device, and instructs the second display device to establish the peer-to-peer connection with the third display device,

instructs the second display device to propagate propagates the first content of the first display device to the second display device using the peer-to-peer connection, and automatically propagates the second content of the second display device to a third display device of the plurality of display devices using the peer-to-peer connection,

wherein a propagation order of the second content followed by the first content represents the sequence, wherein initiating the gesture changes the content displayed on all of the first display device, the second display device and the third display device.

22. The system of claim 18, wherein the gesture is made from a device selected from the group consisting of keyboards, mouse devices, joysticks, microphones, UV sensors, motion detectors and laser pointers.

25. The system of claim 18, wherein the first display device, the second display device and the third display device each communicate through a server.

28. The system of claim 18, wherein the first display device, the second display device and the third display device each communicate through a peer to peer service.