Content-aware digital media storage device and methods of using the same

• US 9,448,918 B2
• Filed: 09/21/2010
• Issued: 09/20/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 09/15/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: JDMAC Capital Management, LLC
• Original Assignee: Eye-Fi Incorporated (Ricoh Company Limited)
• Inventors: Feinberg, Eugene, Koren, Yuval, Ozceri, Berend, Gillat, Ziv
• Primary Examiner(s): Abad, Farley
• Assistant Examiner(s): LEWIS-TAYLOR, DAYTON A.
• Application Number:
  US12/886,793
• Publication Number:
  US 20110004840A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,191 Days
• Field of Search: 703/27, 709/212, 709/216, 709/217, 709/219, 709/227, 709/245, 710/13, 710/22, 710/33, 710/106, 711/103, 711/111, 711/115, 711/147, 711/170
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 12/00 Accessing, addressing or allocating within memory systems or architectures digital input from, or digital output to record carriers, e.g. to disk storage units, G06F3/06
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 12/02 Addressing or allocation; Relocation program address sequencing G06F9/00; arrangements for selecting an address in a digital store G11C8/00
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/58 Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/10 Protecting distributed programs or content, e.g. vending or licensing of copyrighted material protection in video systems or pay television H04N7/16 ; Digital rights management [DRM]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/445 Program loading or initiating bootstrapping G06F9/4401; security arrangements for program loading or initiating G06F21/57
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2463/062 applying encryption of the keys
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0428 wherein the data content is protected, e.g. by encrypting or encapsulating the payload
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0853 using an additional device, e.g. smartcard, SIM or a different communication terminal cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication involving additional secure or trusted devices H04L9/3234
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00132 in a digital photofinishing system, i.e. a system where digital photographic images undergo typical photofinishing processing, e.g. printing ordering
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00137 Transmission
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00151 with selective access
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00347 with another still picture apparatus, e.g. hybrid still picture apparatus circuits or arrangements for control or supervision between image input and image output device H04N1/32
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2101/00 Still video cameras
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0055 By radio
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0084 Digital still camera
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0087 Image storage device
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/47 using near field communication [NFC] or radio frequency identification [RFID] modules

Abstract

A content-aware digital media storage device includes a host device interface for exchanging digital information with a host device, a memory array for storing digital information received from the host device via the host interface, a peripheral module configured to communicate the digital information stored in the memory array to a receiver located remote from the digital media storage device, and a controller communicatively coupled to the host device interface, the memory array and the peripheral module configured to interpret directory information associated with the digital information stored in the memory array so as to selectively access said digital information and communicate such accessed digital information to the peripheral module for transmission to the remote receiver. Digital images stored in the memory array may be transmitted to a remote host via a wireless network access point with which the peripheral module of the storage device is associated.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

establishing a wireless network between respective wireless radio transceivers of a first and second removable media card, the first removable media card being used by a first user and the second removable media card being used by a second user, the first user being different from the second user;

receiving, by the first removable media card, an identifier from the second removable media card;

determining, by the first removable media card, whether the second user of the second removable media card is known to the first user of the first removable media card based on the identifier from the second removable media card and a list of individuals known to the first user;

in response to determining that the second user is known to the first user, (i) informing, via a user interface of a digital camera housing the first removable media card, the first user that the second user is in a proximity of the first user, and (ii) requesting, via the user interface, permission from the first user to transmit one or more images from the first removable media card to the second removable media card; and

upon obtaining the first user'"'"'s permission, transmitting one or more images from the first removable media card to the second removable media card, wherein the transmission of images is initiated by the second user being in the proximity of the first user.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the wireless network is an ad hoc wireless network.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein determining whether the second user of the second removable media card is known to the first user of the first removable media card comprises determining social network contacts of the first user.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein requesting permission comprises displaying a prompt on the user interface that requests permission from the first user to transmit one or more images from the first removable media card to the second removable media card.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the list of individuals known to the first user is stored in an user-defined address book.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the identifier from the second removable media card is a media access control (MAC) address.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the identifier from the second removable media card is used to identify the second user of the second removable media card.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the identifier from the second removable media card is used as an index to an account of the second user at a server layer.