Communication terminals, systems, methods, and computer program products for publishing, sharing and accessing media files

• US 8,229,405 B2
• Filed: 11/14/2011
• Issued: 07/24/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 05/30/2006
• Status: Expired

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications USA Incorporated (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Minör, Sten
• Primary Examiner(s): Brandt, Christopher M
• Application Number:
  US13/295,491
• Publication Number:
  US 20120059877A1
• Time in Patent Office: 253 Days
• Field of Search: 455/414.2, 455/414.1, 455/414.3, 455/41.2, 455/41.3
• US Class Current: 455/414.3
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/40 Support for services or applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/00 Network arrangements or protocols for supporting network services or applications user-to-user messaging H04L51/00; network arrangements, protocols or services for supporting real-time applications in data packet communications networks H04L65/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/04 specially adapted for terminals or networks with limited capabilities; specially adapted for terminal portability
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/06 specially adapted for file transfer, e.g. file transfer protocol [FTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/104 Peer-to-peer [P2P] networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1078 Resource delivery mechanisms
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/51 Discovery or management thereof, e.g. service location protocol [SLP] or web services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/00 Services specially adapted for wireless communication networks; Facilities therefor
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/10 Connection setup

Abstract

A method for publishing and sharing media files includes: making a published media file available to other wireless communication terminals from a publisher wireless communication terminal; establishing a connection via a wireless communication module of the publisher wireless communication terminal with a requestor wireless communication terminal seeking published media files; sending an identification of the published media file from the publisher wireless communication terminal to the requestor wireless communication terminal; sending a media file request from the requestor wireless communication terminal to the publisher wireless communication terminal requesting the published media file; sending the published media file from the publisher wireless communication terminal to the requestor wireless communication terminal in response to the media file request; and executing playback of the published media file on the requestor wireless communication terminal.

Claims

1. A method for publishing and sharing media files, the method comprising:

pre-selecting a media file from a collection of media files on a publisher communication terminal for publication;

thereafter

making the selected media file a published media file available to other communication terminals from the publisher communication terminal;

thereafter

receiving a discovery request issued from a requestor communication terminal seeking published media files;

automatically establishing a connection between the publisher communication terminal and the requestor communication terminal in response to the discovery request;

sending an identification of the published media file from the publisher communication terminal to the requestor communication terminal;

sending a media file request from the requestor communication terminal to the publisher communication terminal requesting the published media file;

automatically sending the published media file from the publisher communication terminal to the requestor communication terminal in response to the media file request;

executing playback of the published media file on the requestor communication terminal; and

prior to receiving the discovery request, placing the publisher communication terminal in a publisher mode and awaiting the discovery request from the requestor communication terminal.

2. The method of claim 1 including:

establishing a connection between the publisher communication terminal and a plurality of requestor communication terminals seeking published media files;

sending identifications of published media files from the publisher communication terminal to each of the requestor communications terminals;

sending a media file request from each of the requestor communication terminals to the publisher communication terminal requesting the published media files;

sending published media files from the publisher communication terminal to each of the requestor communication terminals in response to the media file requests; and

executing playback of the published media files on each of the requestor communication terminals.

3. The method of claim 1 including generating and displaying on the requestor communication terminal a published media file list including the published media file identification.

4. The method of claim 1 including sending the published media file to the requestor communication terminal in response to a media file request by streaming the published media file to the requestor communication terminal.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein the media file identification includes metadata including descriptive information regarding the published media file.

6. The method of claim 1 wherein the connection between the publisher communication terminal and the requestor communication terminal is a wireless connection.

7. The method of claim 1 wherein the published media file is a song file.

8. The method of claim 1 wherein the published media file is a video file.

9. The method of claim 1 wherein the published media file is a still image file.

10. A communication terminal comprising:

a communication module that is configured to communicate with other communication terminals; and

a controller that is configured to pre-select a media file from a collection of media files on the communication terminal for publication, to thereafter make the selected media file a published media file available to other communication terminals, to thereafter receive a discovery request issued from a requestor communication terminal seeking published media files, to automatically establish a connection between the communication terminal and the requestor communication terminal in response to the discovery request, to send an identification of the published media file to the requestor communication terminal, to receive a media file request from the requestor communication terminal requesting the published media file, to automatically send the published media file to the requestor communication terminal in response to the media file request, and to place the communication terminal in a publisher mode and await the discovery request from the requestor communication terminal prior to receiving the discovery request.

11. A method for publishing and sharing media files, the method comprising:

pre-selecting a media file from a collection of media files on a publisher communication terminal for publication;

thereafter

making the selected media file a published media file available to other communication terminals from the publisher communication terminal;

establishing a connection between the publisher communication terminal and a requestor wireless communication terminal seeking published media files;

sending an identification of the published media file from the publisher communication terminal to the requestor communication terminal;

generating and displaying on the requestor communication terminal a published media file list including the published media file identification;

sending a media file request from the requestor communication terminal to the publisher communication terminal requesting the published media file;

sending the published media file from the publisher communication terminal to the requestor communication terminal in response to the media file request; and

executing playback of the published media file on the requestor communication terminal.

12. The method of claim 11 including:

establishing a connection between the publisher communication terminal and a plurality of requestor communication terminals seeking published media files;

sending identifications of published media files from the publisher communication terminal to each of the requestor communication terminals;

generating and displaying on each of the requestor communication terminals a published media file list including the published media file identification;

sending a media file request from each of the requestor communication terminals to the publisher communication terminal requesting the published media files;

sending published media files from the publisher communication terminal to each of the requestor communication terminals in response to the media file requests; and

executing playback of the published media files on each of the requestor communication terminals.

13. The method of claim 11 including:

prior to establishing the connection, placing the publisher communication terminal in a publisher mode; and

automatically establishing the connection between the publisher communication terminal and the requestor communication terminal seeking published media files.

14. The method of claim 11 including sending the published media file to the requestor communication terminal in response to the media file request by streaming the published media file to the requestor communication terminal.

15. The method of claim 11 wherein the media file identification includes metadata including descriptive information regarding the published media file.

16. The method of claim 11 including:

receiving at the requestor communication terminal a selection of the published media file identification from the published media file list; and

automatically sending the media file request from the requestor communication terminal to the publisher communication terminal in response to the selection of the published media file identification.

17. The method of claim 11 including:

displaying at the publisher communication terminal a plurality of media file identifications corresponding to the collection of media files, each media file identification corresponding to a respective media file that is available to be published;

wherein pre-selecting the media file comprises selecting one of the displayed identifications.

18. The method of claim 11, including:

placing a requestor communication terminal in a requestor mode and thereafter;

establishing the connection between the publisher communication terminal and the requestor communication terminal seeking published media files; and

sending the identification of the published media file from the publisher communication terminal to the requestor communication terminal.

19. The method of claim 11 wherein the connection between the publisher communication terminal and the requestor communication terminal is a wireless connection.

20. The method of claim 11 wherein the published media file is at least one of a song file, a video file and a still image file.

21. The method of claim 11 including:

pre-selecting a plurality of media files from the collection of media files on the publisher communication terminal for publication;

thereafter

making the selected media files a plurality of published media files available to other communication terminals from the publisher communication terminal;

sending an identification of each of the plurality of published media files from the publisher communication terminal to the requestor communication terminal;

generating and displaying on the requestor communication terminal the published media file list including the published media file identifications;

receiving at the requestor communication terminal a selection of at least one of the published media file identifications from the published media file list;

sending at least one media file request from the requestor communication terminal to the publisher communication terminal requesting the at least one published media file corresponding to the selected at least one of the published media file identifications;

sending the at least one published media file from the publisher communication terminal to the requestor communication terminal in response to the at least one media file request; and

executing playback of the at least one published media file on the requestor communication terminal.