Packet streaming service capability exchange for enhanced peripheral device support

• US 8,965,453 B2
• Filed: 08/29/2012
• Issued: 02/24/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 01/23/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Original Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Inventors: Oyman, Ozgur
• Primary Examiner(s): MAPA, MICHAEL Y
• Application Number:
  US13/598,301
• Publication Number:
  US 20130190048A1
• Time in Patent Office: 909 Days
• Field of Search: 455/557, 455/414.1, 455418-420, 455/566, 715/500.1, 715201-204, 715744-747, 345/619, 345/660, 345/472
• US Class Current: 455/557
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 17/318 Received signal strength
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 17/382 for resource allocation, admission control or handover
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0007 the frequencies being orthogonal, e.g. OFDM(A), DMT
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0035 Resource allocation in a cooperative multipoint environment
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0096 Indication of changes in allocation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/14 Two-way operation using the same type of signal, i.e. duplex
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/16 Central resource management; Negotiation of resources or communication parameters, e.g. negotiating bandwidth or QoS [Quality of Service]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 36/0061 of neighbour cell information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 36/0066 of control information between different types of networks in order to establish a new radio link in the target network
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 48/16 Discovering, processing access restriction or access information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/08 Closed loop power control
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/146 Uplink power control
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/241 taking into account channel quality metrics, e.g. SIR, SNR, CIR, Eb/lo
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/0446 Resources in time domain, e.g. slots or frames
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/21 in the uplink direction of a wireless link, i.e. towards the network
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/23 in the downlink direction of a wireless link, i.e. towards a terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/54 based on quality criteria
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/06 adapted for operation in multiple networks or having at least two operational modes, e.g. multi-mode terminals
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/10 adapted for operation in multiple networks, e.g. multi-mode access points
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 30/70 in wireless communication networks

Abstract

Systems and techniques for packet streaming service capability exchange for enhanced peripheral device support are described herein. A profile difference may be received from user equipment. The profile difference may include a device attribute. A current profile may be modified with the device attribute to create a modified profile. A determination may be made as to whether a content session parameter will change based on the modified profile.

Claims

1. A user equipment (UE) comprising:

a first communications module configured to communicatively couple to a content delivery service;

a second communications module configured to communicatively couple to a content presentation device, wherein the content presentation device is a peripheral device of the UE;

a difference module arranged to determine a difference between a content presentation device attribute for the content presentation device and a corresponding device attribute in a device profile of the UE, the device profile conforming to a user agent profile (UAProf) compatible with a 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) Release 10 family of standards; and

a modification module arranged to communicate, in a profile difference (ProfDiff) message in a real-time streaming protocol (RTSP) describe message of a content presentation session request for a content presentation session, the difference to the content delivery service via the first communications module, the difference arranged to modify a session parameter for the content presentation session until the content presentation session ends, the difference including a device management (DM) capability field and a DM capability version field, the UE and RTSP describe message being compatible with the 3GPP Release 10 family of standards, and the ProfDiff conforming to a 2004 W3C resource description framework (RDF) schema.

2. The UE of claim 1, wherein the difference module is arranged to determine the difference to the content delivery service based on and in response to receiving user input.

3. The UE of claim 1, wherein the modification module is arranged to communicate the difference to the content delivery service via the first communications module in response to a determination of the content presentation device attribute.

4. The UE of claim 3, wherein the difference module is arranged to interrogate, via the second communications module, the content presentation device to make the determination.

5. The UE of claim 1, wherein the difference module is arranged to determine the difference during a content presentation session;

and

wherein the communicated difference is arranged to modify one or more session parameters for the content presentation session by the content presentation service.

6. The UE of claim 5, wherein the content presentation session is an internet protocol multimedia subsystem (IMS) session according to the 3GPP Release 10 family of standards.

7. The UE of claim 6, wherein the modification module is arranged to initiate a session initiation protocol (SIP) subscribe message to the content delivery service, the content presentation session arranged to begin after receipt of a SIP notify message by the UE.

8. The UE of claim 5, wherein the difference is arranged to modify the one or more session parameters until a subsequent difference is communicated to the content delivery service, the subsequent difference corresponding to the difference.

9. The UE of claim 1, wherein the modification module is arranged to communicate the difference to the content delivery service using a hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) get request.

10. The UE of claim 1, wherein the content delivery service includes a service discovery function (SDF);

and

wherein to communicate the difference to the content delivery service the modification module is arranged to communicate with the SDF.

11. The UE of claim 1, wherein the UE conforms to the 3GPP Release 10 family of standards.

12. The UE of claim 1, wherein the content delivery service comprises a packet-switched streaming (PSS) service according to the 3GPP Release 10 family of standards.

13. The UE of claim 1, wherein the content delivery service comprises an IMS-based packet-switched streaming multimedia broadcast multicast service (IMS_PSS_MBMS) according to the 3GPP Release 10 family of standards.

14. The UE of claim 1, wherein the difference module is arranged to determine a plurality of differences between content presentation device attributes for the content presentation device and corresponding device attributes in the device profile of the UE, the plurality of differences including the difference;

and

the modification module is arranged to communicate the plurality of differences to the content delivery in the ProfDiff, the plurality of differences each arranged to modify one or more session parameters for the content presentation session.

15. The UE of claim 1, wherein the difference corresponds to at least one of a name and number of a device central processing unit (CPU), a CPU maximum speed in clock cycles per second, an indication whether a device provides a bearer on which a current content presentation session was opened, pre-decoder buffer size, initial buffering period, decoder capability, display properties, streaming method, adaptation support information, quality of experience (QoE) support information, extended real time transport control protocol (RTCP) reporting support, or a fast content switching support.

16. The UE of claim 1, wherein the first communications module is arranged to communicatively couple to the content delivery service via a cellular network according to the 3GPP Release 10 family of standards.

17. The UE of claim 1, including a touch screen display user interface navigation device.

18. A non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising instructions that, when executed by a machine, cause the machine to:

receive a profile difference (ProfDiff) in a real-time streaming protocol (RTSP) describe message of a content presentation request for a content presentation session from a user equipment (UE), the ProfDiff including a device attribute, the device attribute being for a peripheral device of the UE, the device attribute including a device management (DM) capability field and a DM capability version field, the RTSP describe message being compatible with a 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) Release 10 family of standards, the ProfDiff conforming to a 2004 W3C resource description framework (RDF) schema;

modify a current profile with the device attribute to create a modified profile, the current profile conforming to a user agent profile (UAProf) compatible with the 3GPP Release 10 family of standards; and

change a content presentation session parameter based on the modified profile until the content presentation session ends, at which point the modified profile is discarded.

19. The computer-readable medium of claim 18, wherein a corresponding device attribute in the current profile that corresponds to the device attribute is not represented in the current profile;

and

wherein to modify the current profile with the device attribute includes adding the device attribute to the current profile to create the modified profile.

20. The computer-readable medium of claim 18, wherein a corresponding device attribute in the current profile that corresponds to the device attribute is represented in the current profile;

and

wherein to modify the current profile with the device attribute includes changing the corresponding device attribute to the device attribute to create the modified profile.

21. The computer-readable medium of claim 18, comprising instructions that, when executed by the machine, cause the machine to retrieve an original profile from a device profile server, the original profile being a first current profile, and the original profile based on device capabilities of the UE.

22. The computer-readable medium of claim 18, comprising instructions that, when executed by the machine, cause the machine to modify the content presentation session parameter of an in-progress content presentation session in response to a determination that the content presentation session parameter will change based on the modified profile.

23. A method comprising:

receiving a profile difference (ProfDiff) in a real-time streaming protocol (RTSP) describe message of a content presentation request for a content presentation session from a user equipment (UE), the ProfDiff including a device attribute, the device attribute being for a peripheral device of the UE, the device attribute including a device management (DM) capability field and a DM capability version field, the RTSP describe message being compatible with a 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) Release 10 family of standards, the ProfDiff conforming to a 2004 W3C resource description framework (RDF) schema;

modifying a current profile with the device attribute to create a modified profile, the current profile conforming to a user agent profile (UAProf) compatible with the 3GPP Release 10 family of standards; and

changing a content presentation session parameter based on the modified profile until the content presentation session ends.

24. The method of claim 23, wherein a corresponding device attribute in the current profile that corresponds to the device attribute is not represented in the current profile;

and

wherein modifying the current profile with the device attribute includes adding the device attribute to the current profile to create the modified profile.

25. The method of claim 23, wherein a corresponding device attribute in the current profile that corresponds to the device attribute is represented in the current profile;

and

wherein modifying the current profile with the device attribute includes changing the corresponding device attribute to the device attribute to create the modified profile.

26. The method medium of claim 23, comprising retrieving an original profile from a device profile server, the original profile being a first current profile, and the original profile based on device capabilities of the UE.

27. The method medium of claim 23, comprising modifying the content presentation session parameter of an in-progress content presentation session in response to a determination that the content presentation session parameter will change based on the modified profile.