Method for voice command activation, multi-media capture, transmission, speech conversion, metatags creation, storage and search retrieval

• US 8,983,119 B2
• Filed: 08/13/2013
• Issued: 03/17/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 09/30/2002
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: MyPort IP, Inc. (MyPort Technologies, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: MyPort Technologies, Inc.
• Inventors: Malone, Michael F.
• Primary Examiner(s): Sherali, Ishrat I
• Application Number:
  US13/965,625
• Publication Number:
  US 20130329086A1
• Time in Patent Office: 581 Days
• Field of Search: 382/100, 382/305
• US Class Current: 382/100
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/48 Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/50 of still image data
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/51 Indexing; Data structures therefor; Storage structures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/5866 using information manually generated, e.g. tags, keywords, comments, manually generated location and time information
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/68 Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/687 using geographical or spatial information, e.g. location
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2209/60 Digital content management, e.g. content distribution
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2209/80 Wireless network architectures or network communication protocols for wireless network security H04W12/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/14 using a plurality of keys or algorithms
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/3263 involving certificates, e.g. public key certificate [PKC] or attribute certificate [AC]; Public key infrastructure [PKI] arrangements network architectures or network communication protocols for supporting authentication of entities using certificates in a packet data network H04L63/0823
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/3271 using challenge-response
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/3297 involving time stamps, e.g. generation of time stamps
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/25816 involving client authentication restricting access to computer systems by authenticating users using a predetermined code G06F21/33; cryptographic authentication protocols H04L9/32; networks authentication protocols H04L63/08; authentication in wireless network security H04W12/06
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/25875 involving end-user authentication restricting access to computer systems by authenticating users using a predetermined code G06F21/33; arrangements for secret or secure communication including means for verifying the identity or authority of a user of the system H04L9/32; networks authentication protocols H04L63/08; authentication in wireless network security H04W12/06
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/26603 for automatically generating descriptors from content, e.g. when it is not made available by its provider, using content analysis techniques
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/26613 for generating or managing keys in general key distribution for secret or secure communication involving central third party, e.g. key distribution center [KDC] or trusted third party [TTP] H04L9/083; network support of key management H04L63/06; key management for network security in communication control or processing H04W12/04
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2747 Remote storage of video programs received via the downstream path, e.g. from the server
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4108 characterised by an identification number or address, e.g. local network address protecting specific internal or external computer components using identification number G06F21/73; network arrangements, protocols or services for addressing or naming H04L61/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6582 Data stored in the client, e.g. viewing habits, hardware capabilities, credit card number arrangements where receivers interact with the broadcast H04H20/38
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/835 Generation of protective data, e.g. certificates protecting software against unauthorised usage in a vending or licensing environment G06F21/10
• 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 5/44 : Receiver circuitry for the reception of television signals according to analogue transmission standards H04N5/14 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/76 : Television signal recording
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/77 : between a recording apparatus and a television camera
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/9201 : involving the multiplexing of an additional signal and the video signal

Abstract

This invention relates to a network interface device a first capture device interfacing with a first external information source to capturing first external information. A processor processes the captured first external information and storing it in a first media, the processor initiating the storage of the first captured information at an initial time and completes storage of the first captured information at a completion time, thus providing a stored defined set of first captured information. A transmitter transmits the defined set of stored captured information to a remote location on a network after the completion time. A remote processing system is disposed at the remote node on the network and includes a database and a receiver for receiving the transmitted defined set of first captured information from the transmitter associated with the network interface device as a received defined set of first captured information. A data converter is operable to convert the received defined set of first captured information to a second format as a set of converted first captured information, the second format different than the first media format, the second format being a searchable format. The database then stores the set of converted captured information.

Claims

1. A system for capturing data in a first media format and storing a representation thereof in a database at a location on a network, comprising:

a capture device having;

a first data converter for interfacing with and capturing external information from a first external information source proximate in time to the generation thereof as first external captured information,

the first data converter processing the first external captured information in a first media format as first captured information within the capture device, the first data converter initiating the processing of the first external captured information as first captured information at an initial time and completing processing of the first external captured information as first captured information at a completion time, thus providing a defined set of first captured information representing the first external captured information between the initial time and the completion time, and

a transmitter for transmitting as a transmitted defined set of first captured information the defined set of first captured information to the location on the network after the completion time;

a system disposed at the location on the network and including;

a database,

a receiver for receiving the transmitted defined set of first captured information from the transmitter associated with the capture device as a received defined set of first captured information,

a system data converter for converting the received defined set of first captured information to a second format as a set of converted first captured information, the second format different than the first media format, the second format being a searchable format, and

the database storing the set of converted first captured information.

2. The system of claim 1, and further comprising:

a second data converter in the capture device for interfacing with a second external information source to capture second external information therefrom;

the second data converter processing the captured second external information in a third format different from the first media format as second captured information;

a combiner for associating the defined set of first captured information with the second captured information;

the transmitter transmitting the associated defined set of first captured information and second captured information to the location on the network;

the receiver at the system receiving the transmitted associated defined set of first captured information and second captured information from the transmitter;

the database storing the set of converted captured information with the associated second captured information such that the association of the defined set of first captured information and second captured information is maintained.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the second external information is temporal and is complete as to the capture at the time of capture by the second data converter.

4. The system of claim 2, wherein the third format is a second media format different from the first media format and wherein the third format of a second media format is maintained in the database at the location on the network.

5. The system of claim 2, wherein the second data converter captures information from the second external information source indicative of the location of the capture device and the second data converter processing the second captured information as location information as the second captured information.

6. The system of claim 5, wherein the second data converter in the capture device comprises a Global Positioning System (GPS) device.

7. The system of claim 5, wherein the second data converter in the capture device derives location information from a time domain analysis of mobile phone signals.

8. The system of claim 5, wherein the second data converter in the capture device derives location information from a time domain analysis of wireless network domains.

9. The system of claim 5, wherein the second data converter in the capture device that derives location information from Doppler analysis of timing signals from cellular/PCS base stations.

10. The system of claim 5, wherein the capture device comprises a cell based communication device wherein the second data converter in the capture device captures location information as to cell transmitters and determines location information from cell triangulation.

11. The system of claim 2, wherein the first data converter comprises an audio transducer and the first media format comprises a format representing audio information.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein the second format of the converted set of first captured information represents text.

13. The system of claim 1, wherein the first data converter comprises an audio transducer and the first media format comprises a format representing audio information.

14. The system of claim 13, wherein the second format of the set of converted first captured information represents text.

15. The system of claim 1, wherein the capture device comprises a portable handheld device.

16. The system of claim 2, wherein the capture device has stored thereat a first capture device identifier and the transmitter transmitting the first capture device identifier with the associated defined set of first captured information and second captured information to the location on the network.

17. The system of claim 1, and further comprising an encryptor for encrypting at least a portion of the defined set of first captured information transmitted by the transmitter at a time between the completion time and the receipt by the system.

18. The system of claim 17, wherein the encryptor encrypts the defined set of first captured information proximate in time to the completion time.

19. The system of claim 17, wherein the encryptor encrypts at a first level of encryption as an encrypted file that constitutes a symmetrical encryption algorithm that has a secret key available only to an owner of the defined set of captured information and wherein the encrypted file is placed in combination with the owner information in the transmission and wherein the system is operable to store the received information.

20. The system of claim 2, wherein the capture device comprises a portable handheld device.

21. The system of claim 2, and further comprising an encryptor for encrypting at least a portion of the defined set of first captured information transmitted by the transmitter at a time between the completion time and the receipt by the system.

22. The system of claim 21, wherein the encryptor encrypts the defined set of first captured information proximate in time to the completion time.

23. The system of claim 21, wherein the encryptor encrypts at a first level of encryption as an encrypted file that constitutes a symmetrical encryption algorithm that has a secret key available only to an owner of the defined set of captured information and wherein the encrypted file is placed in combination with the owner information in the transmission and wherein the system is operable to store the received information.

24. The system of claim 1, wherein the first data converter comprises an audio transducer and the first media format comprises a format representing audio information.