Method and system for providing a user interface that enables control of a device via respiratory and/or tactual input

• US 8,701,015 B2
• Filed: 03/26/2008
• Issued: 04/15/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 03/26/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Pierre Bonnat
• Original Assignee: Pierre Bonnat
• Inventors: Bonnat, Pierre
• Primary Examiner(s): ULRICH, NICHOLAS S
• Application Number:
  US12/056,187
• Publication Number:
  US 20090247222A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,211 Days
• Field of Search: 715/744, 715/762, 715/763, 715/835, 715/847, 715/864, 715/748, 715/765, 715/749, 715/866, 345/173
• US Class Current: 715/744
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1613 for portable computers cooling arrangements therefor G06F1/203; constructional details or arrangements for pocket calculators, electronic agendas or books G06F15/0216; constructional details of portable telephone sets: with several bodies H04M1/0202
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1643 the display being associated to a digitizer, e.g. laptops that can be used as penpads details related to the relative motion of the display enclosure with respect to the body enclosure, e.g. to move between laptop and tablet PC configuration G06F1/1615
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1684 Constructional details or arrangements related to integrated I/O peripherals not covered by groups G06F1/1635 - G06F1/1675
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/011 Arrangements for interaction with the human body, e.g. for user immersion in virtual reality blind teaching G09B21/00
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04886 by partitioning the display area of the touch-screen or the surface of the digitising tablet into independently controllable areas, e.g. virtual keyboards or menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/451 Execution arrangements for user interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72403 with means for local support of applications that increase the functionality
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72412 using two-way short-range wireless interfaces

Abstract

A method and system are provided for a user interface that enables control of a device via respiratory and/or tactual input. A mobile device comprising a graphical user interface may receive data from a second device and/or locally from within the mobile device. The data may be associated with and/or mapped to multimedia content that may be retrievable from a content source. The content source may be external to the mobile device and the second device. The associating and/or mapping may occur at either the mobile device or the second device and the associated or mapped data may be operable to function as at least a portion of the graphical user interface of the mobile device. The graphical user interface may be customized utilizing the data that is associated and/or mapped to the media content. The second device may map the received data to the media content.

Claims

1. A method for device interaction, the method comprising:

in a mobile device comprising a customizable graphical user interface having at least a first geometric region configurable by a user of the mobile device to be responsive or non-responsive to a first mode of user input and a second geometric region separate from the first geometric region, the second geometric region configurable by the user to be responsive or non-responsive to a second mode of user input different from the first mode of user input and to be non-responsive to the first mode of user input;

receiving from a second device and/or from within said mobile device, data to be utilized for customization of said graphical user interface;

modifying said graphical user interface utilizing said received data and user input, wherein said modification comprises;

associating said received data with media content that is retrievable by said mobile device from a content source that is external to said mobile device, wherein said associated received data is operable to function as at least a portion of said graphical user interface of said mobile device and/or another device to which said associated data is transferred;

controlling via said at least a portion of said graphical user interface, consumption of said media content on said mobile device; and

transmitting said graphical user interface to a second electronic device for use on said second electronic device.

2. The method according to claim 1, comprising customizing said graphical user interface utilizing said data that is associated to said media content.

3. The method according to claim 1, comprising mapping said received data to said media content by said mobile device.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein said second device maps said received data to said media content.

5. The method according to claim 4, wherein said data that is mapped to said media content is communicated from said second device to said mobile device.

6. The method according to claim 5, comprising receiving said mapped data from said second device via a wireless connection and/or a wired connection.

7. The method according to claim 1, wherein said media content that is retrievable by said mobile device comprise one or more of an RSS and/or XML feed, a URL, and/or multimedia content.

8. The method according to claim 1, wherein said mobile device is controllable by expulsion of breath into open space.

9. The method according to claim 1, wherein touch is utilized to control said graphical user interface.

10. The method according to claim 1, wherein said mobile device comprises one or more of a personal computer (PC), a laptop, and/or a handheld communication device.

11. The method according to claim 10, wherein said handheld device comprises one or more of a mobile telephone, and/or a mobile multimedia player.

12. The method according to claim 1, wherein transmitting comprises side-loading.

13. The method according to claim 1, wherein said second electronic device comprises a user device operable as a mobile phone.

14. The method according to claim 1, wherein use of said graphical user interface on said second electronic device comprises customization of said graphical user interface.

15. The method according to claim 1, wherein the first mode of user input comprises tactual input and the second mode of user input comprises sensing flow of human breath.

16. A system for device interaction, the system comprising:

one or more processors in a mobile device comprising a customizable graphical user interface having at least a first geometric region configurable by a user to be responsive or non-responsive to a first mode of user input and a second geometric region separate from the first geometric region, the second geometric region configurable by the user to be responsive or non-responsive to a second mode of user input different from the first mode of user input and to be non-responsive to the first mode of user input, said one or more processors are operable to;

receive from a second device and/or from within said mobile device, data to be utilized for customization of said graphical user interface;

modify said graphical user interface utilizing said received data and user input, wherein said modification comprises;

association of said received data with media content that is retrievable by said mobile device from a content source that is external to said mobile device, wherein said associated received data is operable to function as at least a portion of said graphical user interface of said mobile device and/or another device to which said associated data is transferred;

control via said at least a portion of said graphical user interface, consumption of said media content on said mobile device; and

transmit said graphical user interface to a second electronic device for use on said second electronic device.

17. The system according to claim 16, wherein said one or more processors enables customization of said graphical user interface utilizing said data that is associated to said media content.

18. The system according to claim 16, wherein said one or more processors maps said received data to said media content at said mobile device.

19. The system according to claim 16, wherein one or more other processors in said second device maps said received data to said media content at said second device.

20. The system according to claim 19, wherein said data that is mapped to said media content is communicated from said second device to said mobile device.

21. The system according to claim 20, wherein said one or more processors are operable to receive said mapped data from said second device via a wireless connection and/or a wired connection.

22. The system according to claim 16, wherein said media content that is retrievable by said mobile device comprise one or more of an RSS and/or XML feed, a URL, and/or multimedia content.

23. The system according to claim 16, wherein said mobile device is controllable by expulsion of breath into open space.

24. The system according to claim 16, wherein touch is utilized to control said graphical user interface.

25. The system according to claim 16, wherein said mobile device comprises one or more of a personal computer (PC), a laptop, and/or a handheld communication device.

26. The system according to claim 25, wherein said handheld device comprises one or more of a mobile telephone, and/or a mobile multimedia player.

27. The system according to claim 16, wherein transmitting comprises side-loading.

28. The system according to claim 16, wherein said second electronic device comprises a user device operable as a mobile phone.

29. The system according to claim 16, wherein use of said graphical user interface on said second electronic device comprises customization of said graphical user interface.

30. A non-transitory machine-readable storage having stored thereon, a computer program having at least one code section for device interaction, the at least one code section being executable by a machine for causing the machine to perform steps comprising:

in a mobile device comprising a customizable graphical user interface having at least a first geometric region configurable by a user to be responsive or non-responsive to a first mode of user input and a second geometric region separate from the first geometric region, the second geometric region configurable by the user to be responsive or non-responsive to a second mode of user input different from the first mode of user input and to be non-responsive to the first mode of user input;

receiving from a second device and/or from within said mobile device, data to be utilized for customization of said graphical user interface;

modifying said graphical user interface utilizing said received data and user input, wherein said modification comprises;

associating said received data with media content that is retrievable by said mobile device from a content source that is external to said mobile device, wherein said associated received data is operable to function as at least a portion of said graphical user interface of said mobile device and/or another device to which said associated data is transferred;

controlling via said at least a portion of said graphical user interface, consumption of said media content on said mobile device; and

transmitting said graphical user interface to a second electronic device for use on said second electronic device.

31. The machine-readable storage according to claim 30, wherein said at least one code section comprises code for customizing said graphical user interface utilizing said data that is associated to said media content.

32. The machine-readable storage according to claim 30, wherein said at least one code section comprises code for mapping said received data to said media content by said mobile device.

33. The machine-readable storage according to claim 30, wherein said second device maps said received data to said media content.

34. The machine-readable storage according to claim 33, wherein said data that is mapped to said media content is communicated from said second device to said mobile device.

35. The machine-readable storage according to claim 34, wherein said at least one code section comprises code for receiving said mapped data from said second device via a wireless connection and/or a wired connection.

36. The machine-readable storage according to claim 30, wherein said media content that is retrievable by said mobile device comprise one or more of an RSS and/or XML feed, a URL, and/or multimedia content.

37. The machine-readable storage according to claim 30, wherein said mobile device is controllable by expulsion of breath into open space.

38. The machine-readable storage according to claim 30, wherein touch is utilized to control said graphical user interface.

39. The machine-readable storage according to claim 30, wherein said mobile device comprises one or more of a personal computer (PC), a laptop, and/or a handheld communication device.

40. The machine-readable storage according to claim 39, wherein said handheld device comprises one or more of a mobile telephone, and/or a mobile multimedia player.

41. The machine-readable storage according to claim 30, wherein transmitting comprises side-loading.

42. The machine-readable storage according to claim 30, wherein said second electronic device comprises a user device operable as a mobile phone.

43. The machine-readable storage according to claim 30, wherein use of said graphical user interface on said second electronic device comprises customization of said graphical user interface.