Systems and methods for remote web query and image selection exchange to video screen

• US 9,084,000 B2
• Filed: 01/05/2015
• Issued: 07/14/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 09/22/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (AT&T, Inc.)
• Inventors: Morris, Nadia, Ng, Virginia S., Hill, Nicholas Peter
• Primary Examiner(s): CORBO, NICHOLAS T
• Application Number:
  US14/589,087
• Publication Number:
  US 20150121444A1
• Time in Patent Office: 190 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1063 Application servers providing network services systems providing special services to telephonic subscribers H04M3/42
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/611 for multicast or broadcast systems for broadcast or conference H04L12/18; arrangements for broadcast or distribution combined with broadcast H04H20/00; arrangements for broadcast applications with a direct linkage to broadcast information or to broadcast space-time H04H60/00; selective distribution of broadcast services, e.g. multimedia broadcast multicast service [MBMS], H04W4/06
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/222 Secondary servers, e.g. proxy server, cable television Head-end provisioning of proxy services in data packet switching networks H04L67/56
• 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 21/23439 for generating different versions
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/26291 for providing content or additional data updates, e.g. updating software modules, stored at the client deployment, distribution, installation, update of software G06F8/65; error detection or correction during software upgrading G06F11/1433; arrangements for updating broadcast information or broadcast-related information H04H60/25
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4126 The peripheral being portable, e.g. PDAs or mobile phones
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/440263 by altering the spatial resolution, e.g. for displaying on a connected PDA
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4751 for defining user accounts, e.g. accounts for children
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4858 for modifying screen layout parameters, e.g. fonts, size of the windows
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6125 involving transmission via Internet transmission by internet of broadcast information H04H60/82
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6334 for authorisation, e.g. by transmitting a key wireless communications network key management H04W12/04; wireless communications network access security H04W12/08
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/64 Addressing network arrangements, protocols or services for addressing or naming H04L61/00; support for multicast or broadcast of one-way stream services H04L65/611
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6405 Multicasting data broadcast and multicast in packet switching networks H04L12/18
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/858 Linking data to content, e.g. by linking an URL to a video object, by creating a hotspot

Abstract

Systems and methods are disclosed for receiving a request to display, on an first communications device, media content, where the request comprises a first logical address for accessing the media content at a first storage location, transmitting to a second communications device, a second logical address for accessing a copy of the media content at a second storage location, where the second logical address differs from the first logical address, and where the second storage location differs from the first storage location. Other embodiments are disclosed.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

receiving, by an application server comprising a processor, from a first communication device a first network address for accessing media content;

accessing, by the application server, the media content according to the first network address;

resizing, by the application server, the media content to generate an updated media content;

storing, by the application server, the updated media content in a storage device; and

transmitting, by the application server, a second network address comprising a link to the updated media content to a second communication device for accessing the updated media content stored in the storage device, wherein the updated media content is stored remotely, and wherein the second network address is different from the first network address.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the first communications device, the application server, and the second communication device are communicatively coupled by way of a packet-based network.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the packet-based network is the internet.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the storage device is a database.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising receiving from the first communication device a request to display the updated media content.

6. The method of claim 5, further comprising forwarding the request to display the updated media content to the second communications device.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising verifying that the first communication device and the second communication device are associated with a user account.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the first communication device comprises a cellular telephone.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the first communication device comprises a wireless interface for communicating with the application server.

10. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

directing the second communication device to present the updated media content responsive to receiving a request from the first communications device; and

directing the second communication device to present a different media content responsive to receiving a second request initiates by the first communications device, wherein the first communication device initiates the second request responsive to detecting shaking.

11. A server, comprising:

a memory to store instructions; and

a processor coupled to the memory, wherein responsive to executing the instructions the processor performs operations comprising;

receiving a media search request from a communications device over a network;

collecting a plurality of media content according to the media search request;

receiving a presentation request to present a media content from the plurality of media content, wherein the presentation request comprises a first network address for accessing the media content at a first storage device; and

transmitting to a second communication device a second network address comprising a link for accessing a remotely stored copy of the media content at a second storage device and for presenting the copy of the media content, wherein the second network address differs from the first network address, and wherein the second storage device differs from the first storage device.

12. The server of claim 11, wherein the operations further comprise resizing the media content to generate an updated media content, wherein the copy of the media content is the updated media content.

13. The server of claim 12, wherein the operations further comprise storing the updated media content in the second storage device, wherein the second network address is used to locate the updated media content in the second storage device.

14. The server of claim 11 wherein the operations further comprise:

receiving a second presentation request from the communication device to present the media content; and

forwarding the second presentation request to the second communications device.

15. The server of claim 11, wherein the operations further comprise verifying that the communications device and the second communication device are associated with a user account.

16. The server of claim 11, wherein the operations further comprise receiving a second presentation request from the communications device to present another media content from the plurality of media content.

17. The server of claim 16, wherein the communications device initiates the media search request responsive to detecting shaking, and wherein the communications device comprises an accelerometer to detect the shaking.

18. A method, comprising:

receiving, by a server comprising a processor, a request to display, on an external display device, media content, wherein the request comprises a first logical address for accessing the media content at a first storage location;

generating, by the server, an updated media content by resizing the media content to a select viewing size;

remotely storing, by the server, the updated media content in a second storage location as remotely stored updated media content; and

transmitting, by the server, to a second communications device, a second logical address comprising a link for accessing of the remotely stored updated the media content at the second storage location, wherein the second logical address differs from the first logical address, and wherein the second storage location differs from the first storage location.

19. The method of claim 18, wherein the request is received from a communications device, and wherein the communications device and the second communication device are associated according to a user account.