Cloud-based cross-platform video display

• US 8,776,152 B1
• Filed: 11/02/2012
• Issued: 07/08/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 11/02/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: RPX Corporation
• Original Assignee: Hopto Inc.
• Inventors: Eilam, Eldad
• Primary Examiner(s): Smith, Chenea
• Application Number:
  US13/668,095
• Time in Patent Office: 613 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 725/93
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/222 Secondary servers, e.g. proxy server, cable television Head-end provisioning of proxy services in data packet switching networks H04L67/56
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2343 involving reformatting operations of video signals for distribution or compliance with end-user requests or end-user device requirements video transcoding H04N19/40; media packet handling at the source H04L65/762
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/84 Generation or processing of descriptive data, e.g. content descriptors systems specially adapted for using meta-information in broadcast systems H04H60/73
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/845 Structuring of content, e.g. decomposing content into time segments

Abstract

A request is sent from a client device to a host device hosting an application. A display associated with execution of the application on the host device may include a video portion and one or more non-video portions. Information may be sent from the host device to the client device over the communication network. Such information may include display information for the video portion as described by raster data and information for the non-video portions as described by vector data. Such information may be used by the client device to generate a display corresponding to the host display. The video portion of the client display may be based on the raster data, and the non-video portions of the client display may be based on the vector data.

Claims

1. A method for cross-platform video display, the method comprising:

sending a request from a cloud server to a host device hosting an application, wherein the request concerns execution of the application;

receiving information sent from the host device to the cloud server concerning the execution of the application resulting in generation of a display on the host device that includes a video portion and one or more non-video portions;

identifying the video portion of the generated display and the one or more non-video portions of the generated display;

generating a plurality of separate sets of display instructions based on the received information regarding the host device display,

wherein one separate set of the display instructions pertains to the identified video portion and uses raster data to describe the identified video portion,

wherein at least a second separate set of display instructions pertains to the identified one or more non-video portions and uses vector data to describe the identified one or more non-video portions, and

wherein a third separate set of display instructions pertains to placement of the identified video portion in relation to the identified one or more non-video portions when the identified video portion and the identified one or more non-video portions are combined into a single page; and

transmitting the plurality of separate sets of display instructions from the cloud server over a communication network to a client device, wherein the client device executes the plurality of separate sets of display instructions in combination to generate a single display corresponding to the host device display,

wherein the single display includes a video portion and one or more non-video portions,

wherein the video portion of the single client display is based on the raster data and the one or more non-video portions of the single client display is based on the vector data, and

wherein the video portion of the single client display is placed in relation to the one or more non-video portions of the single client display based on the separate set of display instructions pertaining to placement.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising distinguishing the video portion from the one or more non-video portions.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein distinguishing the video portion from the one or more non-video portions includes identifying a video frame of the video portion.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein at least one of the plurality of separate sets of display instructions includes metadata regarding the video portion and the one or more non-video portions.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein at least one of the plurality of separate sets of display instructions includes information concerning combining the raster data and the vector data to generate the single display on the client device.

6. A system for cross-platform video display, the system comprising:

a host device hosting an application, wherein execution of the application by the host device results in generation of a display on the host device that includes a video portion and one or more non-video portions;

a cloud server comprising;

a communication interface for;

sending a request to the host device over a communication network, wherein the request concerns execution of the application, and

receiving information from the host device over the communication network, the received information concerning the execution of the application resulting in generation of the display on the host device that includes the video portion and the one or more non-video portions;

a processor for executing instructions stored in memory, wherein execution of the instructions by the processor;

identifies the video portion of the generated display and the one or more non-video portions of the generated display;

generates a plurality of separate sets of display instructions based on the received information regarding the host device display,

wherein one separate set of the display instructions pertains to the identified video portion and uses raster data to describe the identified video portion,

wherein at least a second separate set of display instructions pertains to the identified one or more non-video portions and uses vector data to describe the one or more identified non-video portions, and

wherein a third separate set of display instructions pertains to placement of the identified video portion in relation to the one or more identified non-video portions when the identified video portion and the identified one or more non-video portions are combined into a single page; and

a client device comprising;

a communication interface that receives the plurality of separate sets of display instructions from the cloud server over the communication network, and

a processor that executes the plurality of separate sets of display instructions in combination to generate a single display corresponding to the host device display,

wherein the single display includes a video portion and one or more non-video portions,

wherein the video portion of the single client display is based on the raster data and the one or more non-video portions of the single client display is based on the vector data, and

wherein the video portion of the single client display is placed in relation to the one or more non-video portions of the single client display based on the separate set of display instructions pertaining to placement.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein the cloud server further distinguishes the video portion from the one or more non-video portions of the host device display.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein the cloud server distinguishes the video portion from the one or more non-video portions by identifying a video frame of the video portion.

9. The system of claim 6, wherein at least one of the plurality of separate sets of display instructions includes metadata regarding the video portion and the one or more non-video portions.

10. The system of claim 6, wherein at least one of the plurality of separate sets of display instructions includes information concerning combining the raster data and the vector data to generate the single display on the client device.

11. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, having embodied thereon a program executable by a processor to perform a method for cross-platform video display, the method comprising:

sending a request from a cloud server to a host device hosting an application, wherein the request concerns execution of the application;

receiving information sent from the host device to the cloud server concerning the execution of the application resulting in generation of a display on the host device that includes a video portion and one or more non-video portions;

identifying the video portion of the generated display and the one or more non-video portions of the generated display;

generating a plurality of separate sets of display instructions based on the received information regarding the host device display,

wherein one separate set of the display instructions pertains to the identified video portion and uses raster data to describe the identified video portion,

wherein at least a second separate set of display instructions pertains to the identified one or more non-video portions and uses vector data to describe the identified one or more non-video portions, and

wherein a third separate set of display instructions pertains to placement of the identified video portion in relation to the identified one or more non-video portions when the identified video portion and the identified one or more non-video portions are combined into a single page; and

transmitting the plurality of separate sets of display instructions from the cloud server over a communication network to a client device, wherein the client device executes the plurality of separate sets of display instructions in combination to generate a display corresponding to the host device display,

wherein the single display includes a video portion and one or more non-video portions,

wherein the video portion of the single client display is based on the raster data and the one or more non-video portions of the single client display is based on the vector data, and

wherein the video portion of the single client display is placed in relation to the one or more non-video portions of the single client display based on the separate set of display instructions pertaining to placement.

12. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 11, further comprising distinguishing the video portion from the one or more non-video portions.

13. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 12, wherein distinguishing the video portion from the one or more non-video portions includes identifying a video frame of the video portion.

14. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 11, wherein at least one of the plurality of separate sets of display instructions includes metadata regarding the video portion and the one or more non-video portions.

15. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 11, wherein at least one of the plurality of separate sets of display instructions includes information concerning combining the raster data and the vector data to generate the single display on the client device.