System and method for collecting media associated with a mobile device

• US 8,314,838 B2
• Filed: 12/28/2007
• Issued: 11/20/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 12/28/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Google Technology Holdings LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Motorola Mobility LLC (Lenovo Group Ltd.)
• Inventors: Alberth, William P. Jr.
• Primary Examiner(s): Lazaro, David
• Assistant Examiner(s): KOROBOV, VITALI A
• Application Number:
  US11/966,478
• Publication Number:
  US 20090167859A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,789 Days
• Field of Search: 707/622, 709/223, 455/456.1
• US Class Current: 348/143
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/031 Electronic editing of digitised analogue information signals, e.g. audio or video signals
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/28 by using information signals recorded by the same method as the main recording G11B27/22 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1101 Session protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/612 for unicast
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/77 between a recording apparatus and a television camera
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/021 Services related to particular areas, e.g. point of interest [POI] services, venue services or geofences
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/185 by embedding added-value information into content, e.g. geo-tagging

Abstract

A mobile device (104) interacts with a media collection system (102). The media collection system has a communication nodes (106) placed at various locations in a region, area, or facility where the mobile device may be carried by a user. The mobile device interacts (306) with the media collection system over a short range radio link (206) to request media collection service. The media collection system then uses media collection devices (107) in the same region, area, or facility as the communication nodes to record media, thereby producing a record of the user'"'"'s experiences in the region, area, or facility. The collected media is stored on a database (112) which accessible by the user using an access identifier.

Claims

1. A method for collecting media content by a media collection system in cooperation with a mobile device, the method comprising:

broadcasting, by the media collection system, a presence of the media collection system at a communication node via a wireless interface;

receiving, by the media collection system, from the mobile device a media collection request via the wireless interface;

providing, by the media collection system, an access identifier to the mobile device in response to receiving the media collection request;

collecting, by the media collection system, pictographic media from at least one media collection device located in a vicinity of the mobile device in response to receiving the media collection request and in response to determining, by the media collection system, a location of a user of the mobile device via facial recognition in the pictographic media;

storing the pictographic media in the media collection system; and

providing, by the media collection system, access to the pictographic media via a data network to the user of the mobile device when the user of the mobile device provides the access identifier to the media collection system.

2. A method for collecting media content by the media collection system, as defined in claim 1, wherein collecting pictographic media is performed in response to a collection criteria being met.

3. A method for collecting media content by the media collection system, as defined in claim 2, wherein the collection criteria includes recognizing the user of the mobile device via facial recognition.

4. A method for collecting media content by the media collection system, as defined in claim 2, wherein the collection criteria includes an elapsed time from a previous media collection.

5. A method for collecting media content by the media collection system, as defined in claim 1, further comprising determining a present location of the mobile device, and wherein collecting media by the media collection system from the at least one media collection device located in the vicinity of the mobile device is performed with the benefit of the present location of the mobile device.

6. A method for collecting media content by the media collection system, as defined in claim 5, wherein determining the present location of the mobile device is performed by receiving positioning information from the mobile device.

7. A method for collecting media content by the media collection system, as defined in claim 5, wherein determining the present location of the mobile device is performed by radio triangulation of the mobile device in relation to a plurality of communication nodes of the media collection system.

8. A method for collecting media content by the media collection system, as defined in claim 1, wherein providing the access identifier comprises providing a unique uniform resource locator to the mobile device.

9. A method for collecting media content by the media collection system, as defined in claim 1, wherein collecting pictographic media in the vicinity of the mobile device comprises stamping the pictographic media with at least one of a time stamp or a location stamp.

10. A method for collecting media content by the media collection system, as defined in claim 1, wherein the pictographic media comprises at least one of:

a still image, a video clip, and a streaming video associated with the user of the mobile device.