Method and system for communicating between a host device and user device through an intermediate device using syntax translation

• US 9,137,501 B2
• Filed: 09/12/2012
• Issued: 09/15/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 09/12/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: DIRECTV, LLC (AT&T, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: The DIRECTV Group, Inc. (AT&T, Inc.)
• Inventors: Wang, Phillip T., Lee, Sean S., Casavant, Scott D.
• Primary Examiner(s): Gillis, Brian J
• Assistant Examiner(s): GRIJALVA LOBOS, BORIS D
• Application Number:
  US13/612,389
• Publication Number:
  US 20140075486A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,098 Days
• Field of Search: 709246-247, 709/250, 709/231, 709217-219, 709201-206, 709/230, 725/37, 725/38, 725/63, 725/68, 725/135, 725/139, 725/143, 725/149
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/00 Arrangements for program control, e.g. control units program control for peripheral devices G06F13/10
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/451 Execution arrangements for user interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/65 Network streaming protocols, e.g. real-time transport protocol [RTP] or real-time control protocol [RTCP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/303 Terminal profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/56 Provisioning of proxy services store-and-forward switching systems in data switching networks H04L12/54
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/565 Conversion or adaptation of application format or content adding application control or application functional data H04L67/561
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/08 Protocols for interworking; Protocol conversion
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/20 Adaptations for transmission via a GHz frequency band, e.g. via satellite

Abstract

A system and method includes a host device, an intermediate device and a user device having a device type associated therewith. A network is in communication with the host device, the intermediate device and the user device. The host device communicates a first graphics command to the intermediate device. The intermediate device converts the first graphics command to a second graphics command in response to the device type. The user device generates a screen display in response to the second graphics command.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

a client device having a first syntax type associated therewith, said client device comprising a first browser;

an intermediate device comprising a first server with a second browser in communication with the first browser, a translation and control module and a proxy;

said first server communicating an application that operates in the first browser, said application establishes a WebSocket connection to the intermediate device; and

a second server having RVU type associated therewith, said second server in communication with the proxy;

said second server communicating RVU command to the intermediate device;

said intermediate device converting the RVU command to a first syntax command in response to the first syntax type in the translation and control module;

said client device processes the first syntax command after receiving the first syntax command from the intermediate device.

2. The system as recited in claim 1 wherein the client device comprises a user device, wherein the first syntax command and the RVU command comprises a first graphics command and a second graphics command and the user device generates a screen display in response to the first graphics command.

3. The system as recited in claim 2 wherein said first graphics command is readable by the application.

4. The system as recited in claim 1 wherein the application comprises a JAVASCRIPT®

application.

5. The system as recited in claim 3 wherein the first graphics command comprises a JAVASCRIPT®

object notation (JSON) command.

6. The system as recited in claim 3 wherein the first server comprises an HTTP server and the first browser comprises an HTML browser.

7. The system as recited in claim 3 wherein the client device generates a response signal from the first browser and communicates the response signal to the first server of the intermediate device.

8. The system as recited in claim 1 wherein the intermediate device converts the first syntax command to the RVU command using one of base64, PNG or JPG encoding.

9. The system as recited in claim 1 wherein the client device comprises a user device, the first syntax command and RVU command comprises user event commands and the second server processes the user event commands.

10. The system as recited in claim 9 wherein the user device generates a JAVASCRIPT®

object notation (JSON) user command and communicates the JSON user command to the intermediate device, said intermediate device converting the JSON user command to an XML user command, said intermediate device communicating the XML user command to the second server.

11. The system as recited in claim 9 wherein the application comprises a JAVASCRIPT®

application that receives HTML browser user events, converts the HTML browser user events into JSON user commands, and communicates the JSON user commands to the intermediate device.

12. A method comprising:

communicating a first syntax type signal from a client device to an intermediate device, said client device comprising a first browser;

communicating an application from a first server of the intermediate device that operates in the first browser;

establishing a WebSocket connection to the first server from the application of the first browser;

communicating RVU command from a second server device to a proxy of the intermediate device;

converting the RVU command to a first syntax command in response to the first syntax type signal in a translation and control module of the intermediate device;

communicating the first syntax command from the intermediate device to the client device; and

processing the first syntax command at the client device.

13. The method as recited in claim 12 wherein the client device comprises a user device, wherein the first syntax command comprises a first graphics command and the RVU command comprise a second graphics command and the user device generates a screen display in response to the second graphics command.

14. The method as recited in claim 13 wherein converting comprises converting the second graphics command to a format readable by the application.

15. The method as recited in claim 14 further comprising generating a response signal from the first browser and communicating the response signal to the server of the intermediate device.

16. The method as recited in claim 13 wherein communicating the application comprises downloading an application using an HTML browser of the user device from an HTTP server of the intermediate device that establishes a WebSocket connection to the intermediate device, and wherein converting comprises converting the second graphics command to a format readable by the application.

17. The method as recited in claim 13 wherein converting the second graphics command to the first graphics command comprises converting the second graphics command to a binary graphics command.

18. The method as recited in claim 17 wherein converting comprises converting the second graphics command to the first graphics command comprising text using base64, PNG or JPG encoding.

19. The method as recited in claim 12 wherein the client device comprises a user device, the first syntax command comprises a first user event command.

20. The method as recited in claim 19 further comprising generating a JAVASCRIPT®

object notation (JSON) user command from the user device, communicating the JSON user command from the user device to the intermediate device.

21. The method as recited in claim 20 wherein the application comprises a JAVASCRIPT®

application receiving HTML browser user events, converting the HTML browser user events into JSON user commands, and communicating the JSON user commands to the intermediate device.