Cross-media storage coordination

• US 9,008,117 B2
• Filed: 08/05/2011
• Issued: 04/14/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 02/20/2007
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: The Invention Science Fund I, L.L.C. (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Original Assignee: The Invention Science Fund I, L.L.C. (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Inventors: Lord, Robert W., Levien, Royce A., Cohen, Alexander J., Jung, Edward K. Y., Tegreene, Clarence T., Rinaldo, Jr., John D., Mangione-Smith, William Henry, Malamud, Mark A.
• Primary Examiner(s): HUYNH, KHOA B
• Application Number:
  US13/136,664
• Publication Number:
  US 20120093174A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,348 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 370/466
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/2272 Management thereof
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/2329 using versioning
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/2358 Change logging, detection, and notification replication G06F16/27
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/40 of multimedia data, e.g. slideshows comprising image and additional audio data retrieval of still image data G06F16/50; retrieval of audio data G06F16/60; retrieval of video data G06F16/70
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/487 using geographical or spatial information, e.g. location
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/489 using time information
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9538 Presentation of query results
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/034 on discs G11B27/036, G11B27/038 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1097 for distributed storage of data in networks, e.g. transport arrangements for network file system [NFS], storage area networks [SAN] or network attached storage [NAS]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/08 Protocols for interworking; Protocol conversion
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/16 Implementation or adaptation of Internet protocol [IP], of transmission control protocol [TCP] or of user datagram protocol [UDP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/231 Content storage operation, e.g. caching movies for short term storage, replicating data over plural servers, prioritizing data for deletion
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/234336 by media transcoding, e.g. video is transformed into a slideshow of still pictures or audio is converted into text
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/235 Processing of additional data, e.g. scrambling of additional data or processing content descriptors
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2381 Adapting the multiplex stream to a specific network, e.g. an Internet Protocol [IP] network transmission of MPEG streams over ATM H04L12/5601
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/435 Processing of additional data, e.g. decrypting of additional data, reconstructing software from modules extracted from the transport stream
• 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: Y10S 707/913 Multimedia
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99947 Object-oriented database structure reference

Abstract

Methods and a media system and storage system for cross-media storage coordination include but are not limited to storing a first data version of specified content based on a particular media format: storing at least a second data version of related content based on a different media format: providing a cross-reference between the first data version and the at least second data version to enable coordinated management by a designated user and/or an approved device for search and possible retrieval of the first data version and/or the at least second data version: and implementing communication access by one or more parties and/or the designated user via a communication type that is correlated with the first data version and/or the at least second data version.

Claims

1. A method of providing storage accessibility for multimedia data, comprising:

storing a first data version of specified content based on a particular media format;

storing at least a second data version of related content based on a different media format;

providing a cross-reference between the first data version and the at least second data version to enable coordinated management by at least one of a designated user or an approved device for search and possible retrieval of at least one of the first data version or the at least second data version;

associating an identification tag with a database listing each of a plurality of alternative communication types to which one or more data packets holding at least one of the first data version or the second data version can be converted;

obtaining retrieval of at least one of the first data version or the at least second data version by at least one of one or more parties or by the designated user, including at least;

obtaining retrieval of a responsive data packet using an original particular media type;

providing a conversion tag to enable a conversion of the responsive data packet to the original particular media type; and

implementing communication access by at least one of one or more parties or the designated user via a communication type that is correlated with at least one of the first data version or the at least second data version.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein said implementing communication access by at least one of one or more parties or the designated user via a communication type that is correlated with at least one of the first data version or the at least second data version includes:

implementing communication access by multiple parties to at least one of the first data version or the at least second data version.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein said implementing communication access by multiple parties to at least one of the first data version or the at least second data version includes:

implementing concurrent communication access by multiple parties to two or more data versions of the specified content or the related content.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein providing a cross-reference between the first data version and the at least second data version to enable coordinated management by a designated user or an approved device for search and possible retrieval of the first data version or the at least second data version includes:

providing the cross reference based on a source of at least one of the first data version or the at least second data version.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein providing a cross-reference between the first data version and the at least second data version includes:

providing the cross reference based on subject matter data of at least one of the first data version or the at least second data version.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein providing a cross-reference between the first data version and the at least second data version to enable coordinated management by a designated user or an approved device for search and possible retrieval of the first data version or the at least second data version includes:

providing the cross reference based on two or more aspects of the specified content and the related content, wherein the two or more aspects includes at least time and owner.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein implementing communication access by at least one of one or more parties or the designated user via a communication type that is correlated with at least one of the first data version or the at least second data version includes:

implementing communication access being enabled based on the cross-reference and the identification tag.

8. A method for storage coordination of multimedia data, the method comprising:

transmitting a first data version of the multimedia data based on a particular media format to a storage facility;

receiving from the storage facility a conversion reference identifying the first data version, the conversion reference identifying at least a second data version of the multimedia data;

receiving a cross-reference between the first data version and the at least second data version to enable coordinated user or device management of at least one of the first data version or the at least second data version;

associating an identification tag with a database listing each of a plurality of alternative communication types to which one or more data packets holding at least one of the first data version or the second data version can be converted;

obtaining retrieval of at least one of the first data version or the at least second data version by at least one of one or more parties or by the designated user, including at least;

obtaining retrieval of a responsive data packet using an original particular media type;

providing a conversion tag to enable a conversion of the responsive data packet to the original particular media type; and

implementing communication access by at least the one of one or more parties or the designated user via a communication type that is correlated with at least one of the first data version or the at least second data version.

9. The method of claim 8 wherein said implementing communication access by at least one of one or more parties or the designated user via a communication type that is correlated with at least one of the first data version or the at least second data version includes:

implementing concurrent communication access by multiple parties to two or more data versions of the multimedia data.

10. The method of claim 8 wherein said implementing communication access by at least one of one or more parties or the designated user via a communication type that is correlated with at least one of the first data version or the at least second data version includes:

implementing concurrent communication access by a single party to two or more data versions of the multimedia data.

11. The method of claim 8 wherein the receiving a cross-reference between the first data version and the at least second data version to enable coordinated user or device management of at least one of the first data version or the at least second data version includes:

converting a received data packet to at least one of an SGML-based data format or an ASCII-based text format.

12. The method of claim 8 wherein the receiving a cross-reference between the first data version and the at least second data version to enable coordinated user or device management of at least one of the first data version or the at least second data version includes:

converting a received data packet by removing one or more data packet envelopes around a core data packet.

13. The method of claim 8 wherein the receiving a cross-reference between the first data version and the at least second data version to enable coordinated user or device management of at least one of the first data version or the at least second data version includes:

comparing a received data packet to an index of data packet types to enable one or more predictive stochastic processes to operate on the received data packet prior to performing a lossy conversion process, the one or more predictive stochastic processes identifying one or more media types appropriate for at least one of display or execution on a mobile device.

14. The method of claim 8 wherein the receiving a cross-reference between the first data version and the at least second data version to enable coordinated user or device management of at least one of the first data version or the at least second data version includes:

receiving the cross-reference to enable converting the multimedia data to a media type appropriate for at least one of a mobile device, a display device, a hardcopy output device, a telephonic device, an audio device, or a video device.

15. The method of claim 8 wherein the receiving a cross-reference between the first data version and the at least second data version to enable coordinated user or device management of at least one of the first data version or the at least second data version includes:

receiving the cross-reference to enable converting the multimedia data to a media type appropriate for one or more of the following devices;

storage, playback, duplication, output, retransmission, conversion, multifunction, still image, display, Morse code transmission, and compression.

16. The method of claim 8 wherein the receiving a cross-reference between the first data version and the at least second data version to enable coordinated user or device management of at least one of the first data version or the at least second data version includes:

receiving the cross-reference to enable converting a received data packet to another data version type wherein the another data version type includes one or more of an image media type, a text messaging type, a video media type, an audio media type, a non-voice media type, a voice media type, a digital media type, and an analog media type.

17. The method of claim 8 further comprising:

initiating a search to locate at least one of the first data version or the at least second data version for possible retrieval by at least one of one or more parties or by the designated user.

18. The method of claim 8 wherein said obtaining retrieval of at least one of the first data version or the at least second data version by at least one of one or more parties or by the designated user includes:

obtaining retrieval of a responsive data packet using a media type appropriate for a destination device.

19. A computer program product for storage coordination of multimedia data comprising:

a non-transitory signal bearing medium bearing at least;

one or more instructions for transmitting a first data version of the multimedia data based on a particular media format to a storage facility;

one or more instructions for receiving from the storage facility a conversion reference identifying the first data version, the conversion reference identifying at least a second data version of the multimedia data;

one or more instructions for receiving a cross-reference between the first data version and the at least second data version to enable coordinated user or device management of at least one of the first data version or the at least second data version;

one or more instructions for associating an identification tag with a database listing each of a plurality of alternative communication types to which one or more data packets holding at least one of the first data version or the second data version can be converted;

one or more instructions for obtaining retrieval of at least one of the first data version or the at least second data version by at least one of one or more parties or by the designated user, including at least;

one or more instructions for obtaining retrieval of a responsive data packet using an original particular media type;

one or more instructions for providing a conversion tag to enable a conversion of the responsive data packet to the original particular media type; and

one or more instructions for implementing communication access by at least one of one or more parties or the designated user via a communication type that is correlated with at least one of the first data version or the at least second data version.