Internet multimedia content delivery to consumer electronic devices through wireless network infrastructure

• US 8,874,635 B2
• Filed: 07/16/2008
• Issued: 10/28/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 10/30/2007
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Shakeel Mustafa
• Original Assignee: Shakeel Mustafa
• Inventors: Mustafa, Shakeel
• Primary Examiner(s): Patel, Hitesh
• Application Number:
  US12/174,083
• Publication Number:
  US 20090112971A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,295 Days
• Field of Search: 709/202, 455/450, 455/455, 455/456, 455/522, 455/3.06, 463 41- 42, 725/87, 725/131, 370/230, 370/338
• US Class Current: 709/202
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/2836 Protocol conversion between an external network and a home network controlling appliance services of a home automation network from a device located outside the home and the home network H04L12/2818; protocol conversion H04L69/08; adaptation of digital video signals for transport over a specific home network H04N7/24
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/103 in the network
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/765 intermediate
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/303 Terminal profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/56 Provisioning of proxy services store-and-forward switching systems in data switching networks H04L12/54
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/565 Conversion or adaptation of application format or content adding application control or application functional data H04L67/561

Abstract

Internet multimedia content delivery methods, devices and systems are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method for communicating internet multimedia data to a consumer electronic via a wireless network comprises receiving the internet multimedia data via the wireless network, converting the internet multimedia data to a data type associated with the consumer electronic device, and forwarding the internet multimedia data of the data type to the consumer electronic device, where the internet multimedia data via the wireless network is serviced by an internet multimedia data server.

Claims

1. A method for communicating internet multimedia data to a consumer electronic device via a wireless network, comprising:

receiving the internet multimedia data via the wireless network;

converting the internet multimedia data to a format and a data type suitable for the consumer electronic device; and

forwarding the converted internet multimedia data to the consumer electronic device, wherein the internet multimedia data via the wireless network is serviced by an internet multimedia data server, wherein the internet multimedia data received is in response to a request for the internet multimedia data by an input device connected to the wireless network, wherein the request includes an identification tag and one or more destination data for the internet multimedia data, wherein the input device does not receive internet multimedia data or converted internet multimedia data, wherein the request from the input device is received and serviced by the multimedia data server, and wherein the internet multimedia data is stored in a storage coupled to the multimedia data server and is accessed using the identification tag.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the internet multimedia data via the wireless network is in a data format for the wireless network which is converted from a format of the internet multimedia data when stored in the internet multimedia data server.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the consumer electronic device comprises a GPS receiver.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the internet multimedia data server comprises a traffic simulcast module for receiving GPS data from the GPS receiver and forwarding traffic information associated with the GPS data.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the GPS receiver comprises a display unit for displaying the traffic information.

27. The method of claim 1, wherein the request can be stored or forwarded to the internet multimedia server at a scheduled time.

28. The method of claim 1, wherein the internet multimedia data is communicated in a data packet wherein the data packet includes a data-link header, an IP header, a multimedia data, a CRC, and a trailer.

6. A method for communicating internet multimedia data to a radio receiving system via a cellular network, comprising:

receiving the internet multimedia data via the cellular network;

converting the internet multimedia data to a format and a data type suitable for the radio receiving system; and

forwarding the converted internet multimedia data to the radio receiving system, wherein the internet multimedia data via the cellular network is serviced by an internet multimedia data server, wherein the internet multimedia data received is in response to a request for the internet multimedia data by an input device connected to the wireless network, wherein the request includes an identification tag and one or more destination data for the internet multimedia data, wherein the input device does not receive internet multimedia data or converted internet multimedia data, wherein the request from the input device is received and serviced by the multimedia data server, and wherein the internet multimedia data is stored in a storage coupled to the multimedia data server and is accessed using the identification tag.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the internet multimedia data via the cellular network comprises audio data generated by a radio station coupled to the internet multimedia data server.

8. The method of claim 6, wherein the radio receiving system comprises an AM radio and a FM radio.

9. The method of claim 6, wherein the internet multimedia data via the cellular network comprises audio data in a global system for mobile communications (GSM) format, a general packet radio service (GPRS) format, or a universal mobile telecommunications system (UMTS) format.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the converting the internet multimedia data comprises:

extracting the audio data from the internet multimedia data; and

modulating the audio data.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the internet multimedia data of the data type comprises amplitude modulated (AM) data of the audio data and frequency modulated (FM) data of the audio data.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the forwarding the internet multimedia data of the data type comprises transmitting the AM data or the FM data to the radio receiving system through a radio channel.

29. The method of claim 6, wherein the request can be stored or forwarded to the internet multimedia server at a scheduled time.

30. The method of claim 6, wherein the internet multimedia data is communicated in a data packet wherein the data packet includes a data-link header, an IP header, a multimedia data, a CRC, and a trailer.

13. A device for communicating internet multimedia data to a radio receiving system via a cellular network, comprising:

a transceiver module;

a processor;

a memory comprising a set of instructions, when executed by the processor and the transceiver module, executes a method comprising;

receiving the internet multimedia data via the cellular network;

converting the internet multimedia data to a format and a data type suitable for the radio receiving system; and

forwarding the converted internet multimedia data to the radio receiving system, wherein the internet multimedia data via the cellular network is serviced by an internet multimedia data server, wherein the internet multimedia data received is in response to a request for the internet multimedia data by an input device connected to the wireless network, wherein the request includes an identification tag and one or more destination data for the internet multimedia data, wherein the input device does not receive internet multimedia data or converted internet multimedia data, wherein the request from the input device is received and serviced by the multimedia data server, and wherein the internet multimedia data is stored in a storage coupled to the multimedia data server and is accessed using the identification tag.

14. The device of claim 13, wherein the transceiver module is operable to broadcast the internet multimedia data via the cellular network to another device for communicating the internet multimedia data to its respective radio receiving system via its respective channel of the cellular network when a respective channel of the another device is dropped.

15. The device of claim 13, wherein the transceiver module is operable to receive the internet multimedia data from another device for broadcasting the internet multimedia data via the wireless network if the receiving of the internet multimedia data by the device fails.

16. The device of claim 13, further comprising a storage module for storing the internet multimedia data via the cellular network.

17. The device of claim 13, further comprising a control module for assessing a quality of the internet multimedia data via the cellular network.

18. The device of claim 13, further comprising an input module for requesting the internet multimedia data.

19. A method for interfacing multiple communication networks, comprising:

receiving request data from an input device via a first communication network;

converting the request data from a protocol of the first communication network to an internet protocol suite and forwarding the request data of the internet protocol suite to an internet multimedia data server; and

receiving reply data of the internet protocol suite from the internet multimedia data server in response to the request data; and

converting the reply data of the internet protocol suite to a protocol of a cellular network and forwarding the converted reply data, wherein an audio data embedded in the reply data is extracted, wherein the converted reply data is further converted and forwarded for processing in a radio receiving system, and wherein the input device comprises one of a public switch telephone network (PSTN) input device, a cellular input device, and an internet protocol (IP) input device, wherein the input device does not receive reply data or converted reply data, and wherein the converted request data from the input device is received by the internet multimedia data server, wherein the request includes an identification tag and one or more destination data for the internet multimedia, wherein the internet multimedia data is stored in a storage coupled to the multimedia data server and is accessed using the identification tag, and wherein the radio receiving system does not request the data.

20. The method of claim 19, wherein the first communication network comprises a public switched telephone network (PSTN), a cellular network, a satellite network, and an internet protocol (IP) network.

21. The method of claim 19, wherein the request data comprises an identification tag for internet multimedia data.

22. The method of claim 21, wherein the internet multimedia data is accessed by the internet multimedia data server based on the identification tag of the request data.

23. The method of claim 19, wherein the request data comprises at least one destination data for the internet multimedia data.

24. The method of claim 23, wherein the at least one destination data for the internet multimedia data comprises a cellular identifier associated with the radio receiving system.

25. The method of claim 19, wherein the forwarding the request data is performed at a scheduled time.

26. The method of claim 19, wherein the forwarding the reply data is performed at a scheduled time.