Systems, methods and apparatuses for providing video data to data rendering devices for display on multimedia video devices at the request of wireless hand held devices

• US 8,971,914 B2
• Filed: 09/29/2009
• Issued: 03/03/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 06/27/2000
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Ortiz & Associates Consulting, LLC (Ortiz & Lopez PLLC)
• Original Assignee: Ortiz & Associates Consulting, LLC (Ortiz & Lopez PLLC)
• Inventors: Ortiz, Luis M.
• Primary Examiner(s): Elahee, MD S
• Application Number:
  US12/569,739
• Publication Number:
  US 20100015913A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,981 Days
• Field of Search: 4554561-4563, 455/404.2, 455/440, 455/457, 455/556.1, 700/11, 375/133, 348/158, 348/155, 386/239, 34235743-35744, 725/116, 710/305
• US Class Current: 455/456.1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/102 Bill distribution or payments
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/322 Aspects of commerce using mobile devices [M-devices]
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 9/00674 with switch-buttons
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/14 Two-way operation using the same type of signal, i.e. duplex
• 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 63/0861 using biometrical features, e.g. fingerprint, retina-scan cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication using biological data H04L9/3231
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/102 Entity profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/04 specially adapted for terminals or networks with limited capabilities; specially adapted for terminal portability
• 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 67/289 Intermediate processing functionally located close to the data consumer application, e.g. in same machine, in same home or in same sub-network
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/568 Storing data temporarily at an intermediate stage, e.g. caching
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/329 in the application layer [OSI layer 7]
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/026 Details of the structure or mounting of specific components
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72403 with means for local support of applications that increase the functionality
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72469 for operating the device by selecting functions from two or more displayed items, e.g. menus or icons
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/22 including a touch pad, a touch sensor or a touch detector digitizers for touch screens G06F3/041
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/68 : Gesture-dependent or behaviour-dependent
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 : Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/024 : Guidance services
• 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 88/02 : Terminal devices

Abstract

Provide dare methods, systems and apparatuses for data brokering between hand held wireless devices (WDs) and data rendering devices (DRDs). DRDs in the form of multimedia devices used for displaying video data (e.g., televisions, video monitors, and projectors) are provided with video for display at the DRD at the request of WDs. DRDs are capable of receiving video data from a network at the request of a WD and/or directly from a WD as the host and then displaying the video data on including multimedia video devices capable of displaying video data. DRD and/or multimedia video devices can also be controlled by the WD during display of video data and to control display of the video data.

Claims

1. A method of brokering video data between handheld wireless devices and video-enabled data rendering devices, comprising:

selecting video data from a handheld wireless device (WD) for rendering by a video-enabled data rendering device (DRD);

requesting assistance from a wireless data communications network supporting wireless communications of said WD to locate the video-enabled DRD for display of said video data;

selecting at least one video-enabled DRD identified by said wireless data communications network for rendering of said video data from at least one of said WD or a remote server associated with said WD; and

providing said video data to said video-enabled DRD, after an authorization code provided by said WD is verified by said DRD, from at least one of;

said WD via RF or IR transmission and said remote server via a data network supporting communication with said video-enabled DRD.

2. The method of brokering video data between wireless devices and video-enabled data rendering devices in claim 1, wherein said video data is provided to said video-enabled DRD via a network supporting said video-enabled DRD after a WD user identifies the video-enabled DRD to a network supporting said WD and a render command is provided by said WD through said network in support of said WD to at least one of a server associated with said wireless device and a network supporting said video-enabled DRD, and said network in support of said WD facilitates transfer of said video data to said video-enabled DRD from said server through said data network supporting communication with said video-enabled DRD.

3. The method of brokering video data between wireless devices and video-enabled data rendering devices in claim 1, wherein said video-enabled DRD displays said video data on at least one of a video monitor and multimedia projector after a render command is provided to the video-enabled DRD.

4. The method of brokering video data between wireless devices and video-enabled data rendering devices in claim 3, wherein displaying said video data by said video-enabled DRD on said at least one of a video monitor and multimedia projector is controlled by the WD through said data network supporting communication with said video-enabled DRD.

5. The method of brokering video data between wireless devices and video-enabled data rendering devices in claim 1, wherein said video data is provided to said video-enabled DRD for rendering and display on said at least one of a video monitor and multimedia projector directly from said WD.

6. The method of brokering video data between wireless devices and video-enabled data rendering devices in claim 5, wherein said video data is rendered by said video-enabled DRD on said at least one of a video monitor and multimedia projector after said render command is provided by said WD to said video-enabled DRD.

7. The method of brokering video data between wireless devices and video-enabled data rendering devices in claim 5, wherein said video data is retrieved from a server associated with said WD, and wherein said video-enabled DRD renders said video data on said at least one of a video monitor and multimedia projector after said video data is delivered to said video-enabled DRD.

8. The method of brokering video data between wireless devices and video-enabled data rendering devices in claim 1, wherein selecting at least one video-enabled DRD is further accomplished by:

requesting said data communications network supporting said WD to locate and communicate with at least one video-enabled DRD, wherein location of said video-enabled DRD is based upon location of said WD or a WD user location; and

requesting said network to provide said WD with at least one of identity and location information for at least one video-enabled DRD.

9. A method of providing video data to a video monitor including a display screen and connected to a data network at the request of a handheld wireless device (WD), comprising:

selecting video data using said WD for rendering by said video monitor;

entering a video monitor locator request at said WD to a wireless network supporting wireless communication by said WD;

wirelessly receiving a list of at least one of video monitor identification and location information from said wireless network at said WD for at least one video monitor;

selecting a video monitor from the list of said at least one of video monitor identification and location information received from said wireless network;

selecting video data using said WD for display on said video monitor selected by said WD from the list of at least one of video monitor identification and location information; and

providing said video data to said video monitor selected by said WD via at least one of wireless communication between said WD and said video monitor or via coordination with a remote server and said WD to provide video data to said video monitor from said remote server, after an authorization code provided by said WD is verified by said video monitor.

10. The method of providing video data in claim 9, wherein said video data is retrieved from a remote server associated with said WD.

11. The method of providing video data in claim 9, wherein said video data is provided to said video monitor from said remote server via at least one data network supporting communication of said video data to said video monitor after a request to provide said video data to said video monitor by said WD to said remote server over said wireless network also identifies the video monitor selected by said WD.

12. The method of providing video data in claim 11, wherein said remote server is also associated with said WD.

13. The method of providing video data in claim 12, wherein said video monitor renders said video data on at least one of a video monitor and multimedia projector associated with said video monitor after a render command is provided to the video monitor wirelessly from said WD via a data network also supporting said video monitor.

14. The method of providing video data in claim 9, wherein data is provided to said video monitor directly from said WD via at least RF and IR communications for rendering on said at least one of a video monitor and multimedia projector associated with said video monitor.

15. The method of providing video data in claim 10, wherein a render command is provided by said WD over said wireless network to at least one of said video monitor or a data network in support of said WD, and said data network transfers said video data to said video monitor from said remote server.

16. A method of brokering video data between handheld wireless devices and a video monitors including a display screen and access to a data network, comprising:

using a wireless network supporting a handheld wireless device (WD) including at least one of a smart phone or personal digital assistant to locate said video monitor including a display screen and access to a data network;

selecting video data for rendering on said video monitor using said WD after authorization code provided by the WD is verified by said video monitor; and

providing said video data to said video monitor selected by said WD for rendering by said video monitor selected by said WD.

17. The method of brokering data between wireless devices and video monitors including a display screen and access to a data network in claim 16, wherein data is received at said video-enabled DRD selected by said WD from a server associated with at least one of said WD and said video-enabled DRD via a data network following a command of said WD.

18. The method of brokering data between wireless devices and video monitors including a display screen and access to a data network in claim 16, wherein said rendering of data at said video monitor follows a command by said WD provided to said video monitor over a local wireless network.

19. The method of brokering data between wireless devices and video monitors including a display screen and access to a data network in claim 16, further comprising the steps of:

determining if delivery of video data to said video monitors can be accepted by said video monitors prior to the steps of selecting video data, using a wireless device WD, for rendering by said video monitors selected by said WD and providing video data to said video monitors selected by said WD at the command of said WD for rendering by said video monitors; and

providing said video data to said video monitors only if delivery of said video data is accepted by said video monitors.

20. The method of brokering data between wireless devices and video monitors including a display screen and access to a data network in claim 19, wherein said rendering of data by said video monitors follows a rendering command received at said video monitors by said WD.