Image acquisition from dynamic content for delivery to network-enabled static display devices

• US 8,156,418 B2
• Filed: 06/05/2008
• Issued: 04/10/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 06/05/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Gowda, Sunil, Ard, Tracy, Sagula, Rafael, Blinn, Arnold, Buiten, Todd
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Maikhanh
• Application Number:
  US12/133,859
• Publication Number:
  US 20090307571A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,405 Days
• Field of Search: 715200-207, 715/234, 715/251, 715254-256, 715/265, 715/267, 715/273, 715/700, 715/730, 715/731, 715/732, 715/760, 715/210, 715/213, 715/738, 715/762, 715/851, 715/854, 709/201, 709/202, 709/203, 709/217, 709/218, 709/219, 709/220, 709/221, 709/223, 709/225, 709/226, 709/227, 709/228, 709/229
• US Class Current: 715/202
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/00 Information retrieval; Database structures therefor; File system structures therefor

Abstract

An image service uses a uniform resource locator (URL) or other location identifier to retrieve static images embedded in dynamic content presentations from the Internet. The image service uses a set of imaging parameters to extract one or more static images embedded in the dynamic content presentation that can be consumed by the static display device. URLs to existing web pages are entered into a configuration interface on the image service. The image service parses the web pages, identifies a direct location identifier for the embedded image, and passes the direct location identifier to the static display device for direct retrieval of the embedded image. In another implementation, the image service dynamically pulls the selected embedded images from the identified web sites, and downloads the static image files for display on the static display device.

Claims

1. A method in a computer system for rendering a static image from a dynamic content presentation in a web page defined in HTML on a static display device comprising:

receiving an instruction to provide the static image embedded in the dynamic content presentation, wherein the instruction includes a location identifier of the dynamic content presentation;

retrieving the dynamic content presentation over a network from a location indicated by the location identifier in the instruction;

parsing the dynamic content presentation to determine a direct location identifier for the embedded static image;

transmitting a configuration parameter of the static display device to the location of the dynamic content presentation for configuration of the embedded static image; and

transmitting the direct location identifier to the static display device for direct retrieval of the embedded image from the web page,

wherein the receiving operation further comprises;

providing an interface for navigation to the location to determine the location identifier; and

providing an interface tool to identify the static image within the dynamic content presentation.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the transmitting operation further comprises transmitting the direct location identifier in conjunction with a plurality of other location identifiers.

3. The method of claim 1 further comprising transmitting a schedule for requesting a number of static images respectively associated with each of the plurality of other location identifiers.

4. A computer-readable medium not consisting of a signal storing computer-executable instructions for performing a computer process to render a static image from a dynamic content presentation in a web page defined in HTML on a static display device, wherein the instructions comprise operations to:

receive an instruction to provide the static image embedded in the dynamic content presentation, wherein the instruction includes a location identifier of the dynamic content presentation;

retrieve the dynamic content presentation over a network from a location indicated by the location identifier in the instruction;

parse the dynamic content presentation to determine a direct location identifier for the embedded static image;

transmit a configuration parameter of the static display device to the location of the dynamic content presentation for configuration of the embedded static image; and

transmit the direct location identifier to the static display device for direct retrieval of the embedded image from the web page,

wherein the receive operation further comprises operations to;

provide an interface for navigation to the location to determine the location identifier; and

provide an interface tool to identify the static image within the dynamic content presentation.

5. The computer-readable medium of claim 4, wherein:

the instructions further comprise operations to receive at a proxy location a request for the dynamic content presentation from the static display device pursuant to a proxy location identifier;

the parse operation further comprises instructions to extract the embedded static image; and

the transmit operation further comprises instructions to transmit the extracted static image to the static display device.

6. The computer-readable medium of claim 4, wherein the transmitting operation further comprises an operation to transmit the direct location identifier in conjunction with a plurality of other location identifiers.

7. The computer-readable medium of claim 4, wherein the instructions further comprise operations to transmit a schedule for requesting a number of static images respectively associated with each of the plurality of other location identifiers.