Automatic multimedia upload for publishing data and multimedia content

• US 8,700,790 B1
• Filed: 01/13/2013
• Issued: 04/15/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 12/28/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: CellSpin Soft, Inc.
• Original Assignee: CellSpin Soft, Inc.
• Inventors: Laviano, Vince, Singh, Gurvinder, Klein, Marcos
• Primary Examiner(s): Nooristany, Sulaiman
• Application Number:
  US13/740,214
• Time in Patent Office: 457 Days
• Field of Search: 709/230
• US Class Current: 709/230
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/26 at least one of which is mobile
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 49/552 by ensuring the integrity of packets received through redundant connections
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0435 wherein the sending and receiving network entities apply symmetric encryption, i.e. same key used for encryption and decryption cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for symmetric key encryption H04L9/06
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0492 by using a location-limited connection, e.g. near-field communication or limited proximity of entities
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/083 using passwords cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication using a predetermined code H04L9/3226
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/00 Network arrangements, protocols or services for supporting real-time applications in data packet communication real-time or near real-time messaging, e.g. instant messaging [IM] H04L51/04; selective video distribution H04N21/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/403 Arrangements for multi-party communication, e.g. for conferences data switching systems for conference H04L12/18; arrangements for connecting several subscribers to a common circuit, i.e. affording conference facilities H04M3/56; television conferencing systems H04N7/15
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/06 specially adapted for file transfer, e.g. file transfer protocol [FTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1095 Replication or mirroring of data, e.g. scheduling or transport for data synchronisation between network nodes
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 7/0008 Synchronisation information channels, e.g. clock distribution lines
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/02 Protecting privacy or anonymity, e.g. protecting personally identifiable information [PII]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/033 of the user plane, e.g. user's traffic
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/04 Key management, e.g. using generic bootstrapping architecture [GBA]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/50 Secure pairing of devices
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/61 Time-dependent
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/80 Services using short range communication, e.g. near-field communication [NFC], radio-frequency identification [RFID] or low energy communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/10 : Connection setup
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/24 : Transfer of terminal data
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/18 : Self-organising networks, e.g. ad-hoc networks or sensor networks

Abstract

Disclosed herein is a method and system for utilizing a digital data capture device in conjunction with a Bluetooth (BT) enabled mobile device for publishing data and multimedia content on one or more websites automatically or with minimal user intervention. A client application is provided on the BT enabled mobile device. In the absence of inbuilt BT capability, a BT communication device is provided on the digital data capture device. The BT communication device is paired with the BT enabled mobile device to establish a connection. The client application detects capture of data and multimedia content on the digital data capture device and initiates transfer of the captured data, multimedia content, and associated files. The digital data capture device transfers the captured data, multimedia content, and the associated files to the client application. The client application automatically publishes the transferred data and multimedia content on one or more websites.

Claims

1. A method for acquiring and transferring data from a Bluetooth enabled data capture device to one or more web services thru a Bluetooth enabled mobile device, the method comprising:

providing a software module on the Bluetooth enabled data capture device;

providing a software module on the Bluetooth enabled mobile device;

establishing a pairing between the Bluetooth enabled data capture device and the Bluetooth enabled mobile device;

acquiring data in the Bluetooth enabled data capture device, wherein the data acquired in the Bluetooth enabled data capture device is newly acquired data, acquired after establishing the pairing between the Bluetooth enabled data capture device and the Bluetooth enabled mobile device;

transferring the data acquired in the Bluetooth enabled data capture device to the Bluetooth enabled mobile device using an available data transfer protocol, wherein the available data transfer protocol comprises (i) a direct transfer protocol, wherein the software module on the Bluetooth enabled data capture device uses a user identifier for the data and automatically transfers the data to the Bluetooth enabled mobile device, wherein the user identifier uniquely identifies a particular user of a web service, (ii) a segmented transfer protocol that is used in part due to present data size and data transfer capabilities, wherein the software module on the Bluetooth enabled data capture device segments the data into data segments, uses segment identifiers for each of the data segments, uses a user identifier for each of the data segments, and transfers the data segments to the Bluetooth enabled mobile device;

receiving, using the software module on the Bluetooth enabled mobile device, data from the Bluetooth enabled data capture device;

transferring, using the software module on the Bluetooth enabled mobile device, one or more portions of the data received by the Bluetooth enabled mobile device to the one or more web services;

receiving, at the one or more web services, data from the Bluetooth enabled mobile device, by using a data transfer protocol wherein the data transfer protocol comprises (i) a direct transfer protocol, wherein the one or more web services receive the transferred data corresponding to a user identifier, (ii) a segmented transfer protocol, wherein the one or more web services receive segmented data and reassemble it using segment identifiers and a user identifier; and

making available, at the one or more web services, the data received from the Bluetooth enabled mobile device for public or private consumption over the internet, wherein one or more portions of the data correspond to a particular user of the web services.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein Bluetooth capability is provided internally in the Bluetooth enabled data capture device.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein Bluetooth capability is provided to the Bluetooth enabled data capture device by an external Bluetooth module.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein transferring the data further comprises:

configuring the data so that the data can be received and stored in its entirety by the Bluetooth enabled mobile device before the Bluetooth enabled mobile device sends the data to the one or more web services.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein transferring the data further comprises:

configuring the data so that one or more portions of the data can be received by the Bluetooth enabled mobile device and forwarded to the one or more web services.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the one or more portions of the data comprise a multimedia object.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the newly acquired data comprises one or more of audio data, video data, image data, text data, or digital data.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the data acquired in the Bluetooth enabled data capture device is data associated with captured data.

9. The method of claim 5, further comprising:

configuring the data so that it can be received by the one or more web services, and reassembled if the segmented transfer protocol is used.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the one or more web services comprise one or more web servers configured to make data available over the Internet;

and wherein the one or more web services are accessible by one or more of;

a downloadable application, a web browser, an operating system, or a hardware device.

11. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

providing, at the Bluetooth enabled data capture device, a destination for the data being transferred from the Bluetooth enabled data capture device to the Bluetooth enabled mobile device, wherein the destination is the Bluetooth enabled mobile device.

12. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

providing, at the Bluetooth enabled data capture device, one or more destinations for the data being transferred from the Bluetooth enabled data capture device to the Bluetooth enabled mobile device, wherein the one or more destinations are the one or more web services.

13. The method of claim 1, wherein transferring the data from the Bluetooth enabled data capture device to the Bluetooth enabled mobile device further comprises:

detecting the existence of the newly acquired data on the Bluetooth enabled data capture device, wherein detecting the existence of the newly acquired data is initiated by the software module on the Bluetooth enabled mobile device.

14. The method of claim 1, wherein transferring the data from the Bluetooth enabled data capture device to the Bluetooth enabled mobile device further comprises:

detecting the existence of the newly acquired data on the Bluetooth enabled data capture device, wherein detecting the existence of the newly acquired data is initiated by the software module on the Bluetooth enabled data capture device.

26. The method of claim 13, wherein the software module on the Bluetooth enabled mobile device initiates the step of detecting newly acquired data based on a pull mode, the pull mode comprising:

polling, on the paired Bluetooth connection, the Bluetooth enabled data capture device by the software module on the Bluetooth enabled mobile device; and

determining existence of newly acquired data for transfer in the Bluetooth enabled data capture device by the software module on the Bluetooth enabled mobile device based on results of the polling, wherein newly acquired data is data acquired after the paired connection is established.

27. The method of claim 14, wherein the software module on the Bluetooth enabled data capture device initiates the step of detecting the newly acquired data for transfer to the Bluetooth enabled mobile device based on a push mode, the push mode comprising:

determining the existence of newly acquired data for transfer by the software module on the Bluetooth enabled data capture device;

sending a data signal to the Bluetooth enabled mobile device by the software module on the Bluetooth enabled data capture device, on the paired Bluetooth connection; and

wherein the software module on the Bluetooth enabled mobile device is listening for the data signal sent from the Bluetooth enabled data capture device on the paired Bluetooth connection.

30. The method of claim 1, wherein in the case of network interruption during the segmented data transfer for a user, transferring segmented data further comprises:

sending a synchronization request to the web service receiving the data;

receiving a synchronization reply back from the web service to find out how much data or how many data segments were successfully received; and

resuming segmented data transfer right after the last successful data segment that reached the web service.

32. The method of claim 1, wherein the user identifier comprises one or more elements from user information, and wherein the one or more elements of the user information comprise user-name, user-password, user-device-information, user settings, or user preferences.

15. A method for acquiring and transferring data from a Bluetooth enabled data capture device to one or more web services thru a Bluetooth enabled mobile device, the method comprising:

providing a software module on the Bluetooth enabled data capture device;

providing a software module on the Bluetooth enabled mobile device;

establishing a pairing between the Bluetooth enabled data capture device and the Bluetooth enabled mobile device;

acquiring data in the Bluetooth enabled data capture device, wherein the data acquired in the Bluetooth enabled data capture device is newly acquired data, acquired after establishing the pairing between the Bluetooth enabled data capture device and the Bluetooth enabled mobile device;

transferring, using the software module on the Bluetooth enabled data capture device, the data from the Bluetooth enabled data capture device to the Bluetooth enabled mobile device;

receiving, using the software module on the Bluetooth enabled mobile device, the data from the Bluetooth enabled data capture device;

transferring the data received by the Bluetooth enabled mobile device to the one or more web services using an available data transfer protocol, wherein the available data transfer protocol comprises (i) a direct transfer protocol wherein the software module on the Bluetooth enabled mobile device uses one or more user identifiers for the data and automatically transfers the data to the one or more web services, wherein each user identifier uniquely identifies a particular user of a web service, (ii) a segmented transfer protocol that is used in part due to present data size and data transfer capabilities, wherein the software module on the Bluetooth enabled mobile device segments the data into data segments, uses segment identifiers for each of the data segments, uses one or more user identifiers for each of the data segments, and transfers the data segments to the one or more web services;

receiving, at the one or more web services, data from the Bluetooth enabled mobile device, by using a data transfer protocol wherein the data transfer protocol comprises (i) a direct transfer protocol, wherein the one or more web services receive the transferred data corresponding to a user identifier;

(ii) a segmented transfer protocol, wherein the one or more web services receive segmented data and reassemble it using segment identifiers and a user identifier; and

making available, at the one or more web services, the data received from the Bluetooth enabled mobile device for public or private consumption over the internet, wherein one or more portions of the data correspond to a particular user of the web services.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein transferring the data received by the Bluetooth enabled mobile device to the one or more web services further comprises:

configuring the data so that it can be received by the one or more web services, and reassembled if the segmented transfer protocol is used.

17. The method of claim 15, further comprising:

providing one or more destinations for the data being transferred from the Bluetooth enabled mobile device to the one or more web services, wherein the one or more destinations are the one or more web services.

18. The method of claim 15, wherein the one or more web services comprise one or more web servers configured to make data available over the Internet;

and wherein the one or more web services are accessible by one or more of;

a downloadable application, a web browser, an operating system, or a hardware device.

19. The method of claim 15, further comprising:

storing the data received from the Bluetooth enabled data capture device in a memory of the Bluetooth enabled mobile device until the entirety of data sent by the Bluetooth enabled data capture device has been stored; and

sending the data stored in the memory of the Bluetooth enabled mobile device to the one or more web services.

20. The method of claim 15, further comprising:

forwarding data received from the Bluetooth enabled data capture device to the one or more web services without waiting to receive additional data from the Bluetooth enabled data capture device.

21. The method of claim 15, wherein the newly acquired data comprises one or more of audio data, video data, image data, text data, or digital data.

22. The method of claim 15, wherein the data transferred from the Bluetooth enabled mobile device to one or more web services is received data.

23. The method of claim 15, wherein the data transferred from the Bluetooth enabled mobile device to one or more web services is data associated with received data.

24. The method of claim 15, wherein Bluetooth capability is provided internally in the Bluetooth enabled data capture device.

25. The method of claim 15, wherein Bluetooth capability is provided to the Bluetooth enabled data capture device by an external Bluetooth module.

28. The method of claim 15, wherein data acquired in the Bluetooth enabled data capture device is newly acquired data, acquired after establishing the pairing between the Bluetooth enabled data capture device and the Bluetooth enabled mobile device, wherein the software module on the Bluetooth enabled mobile device initiates a step of detecting newly acquired data based on a pull mode, the pull mode comprising:

polling the Bluetooth enabled data capture device by the software module on the Bluetooth enabled mobile device; and

determining existence of newly acquired data for transfer in the Bluetooth enabled data capture device by the software module on the Bluetooth enabled mobile device based on results of the polling.

29. The method of claim 15, wherein data acquired in the data capture device is newly acquired data, acquired after establishing the pairing between the Bluetooth enabled data capture device and the Bluetooth enabled mobile device, wherein the software module on the Bluetooth enabled data capture device initiates a step of detecting newly acquired data for transfer to the Bluetooth enabled mobile device based on a push mode, the push mode comprising:

determining the existence of newly acquired data for transfer by the software module on the Bluetooth enabled data capture device;

sending a data signal to the Bluetooth enabled mobile device by the software module on the Bluetooth enabled data capture device, on the paired Bluetooth connection; and

wherein the software module on the Bluetooth enabled mobile device is listening for the data signal sent from the Bluetooth enabled data capture device on the paired Bluetooth connection.

31. The method of claim 15, wherein in the case of network interruption during the segmented data transfer for a user, transferring segmented data further comprises:

sending a synchronization request to the web service receiving the data;

receiving a synchronization reply back from the web service to find out how much data or how many data segments were successfully received; and

resuming segmented data transfer right after the last successful data segment that reached the web service.

33. The method of claim 15, wherein the user identifier comprises one or more elements from user information, and wherein the one or more elements of the user information comprise user-name, user-password, user-device-information, user settings, or user preferences.