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

• US 9,560,395 B2
• Filed: 07/25/2016
• Issued: 01/31/2017
• 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:
  US15/218,537
• Publication Number:
  US 20160337698A1
• 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, a search request from a first media device for media content;

performing, by the application server, a search according to the search request to generate search results;

delivering, by the application server, the search results to the first media device, wherein the first media device presents the search results via a graphical user interface, wherein the first media device receives an input from the graphical user interface that includes a selected search result and a selection of a second media device to which the selected search result is to be provided;

receiving, by the application server, a request from the first media device to display the selected search result on a display of the second media device;

reformatting, by the application server, the selected search result to generate updated media content responsive to receiving the request to display the search results on the display;

remotely storing, by the application server, the updated media content remote from the first media device and the application server; and

transmitting, by the application server, a first network address comprising a link to the updated media content to the second media device for accessing the updated media content.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the first media device, the application server, and the second media device are communicatively coupled via a network.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the network comprises a packet-based network.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the first network address is different from a second network address of the first media device.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the application server comprises a processing system.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the search results include a second network address for accessing the search results, and

wherein the second network address is different from the first network address.

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

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the reformatting comprises resizing the selected search result according to a specification of the display.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

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

directing the second media device to present a different media file responsive to receiving a second request initiated by the first media device.

10. The method of claim 9, further comprising remotely storing the different media file in a storage device.

11. A server, comprising:

a processing system including a processor; and

a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processing system, facilitate performance of 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, wherein the communications device presents the plurality of media content via a graphical user interface, wherein the communications device receives an input from the graphical user interface that includes a selected media file from the plurality of media content and a selection of a display device to which the selected media file is to be provided;

remotely storing the selected media file remote from the communications device and the server;

receiving a presentation request to present the selected media file;

reformatting the selected media file to generate an updated media content responsive to receiving the presentation request; and

transmitting to the display device a first link for accessing the updated media content and for presenting the updated media content.

12. The server of claim 11, wherein the reformatting comprises resizing the selected media file according to a specification of the display device.

13. The server of claim 12, wherein the operations further comprise:

storing the updated media content in a second storage device;

generating a second link to locate the updated media content in the second storage device; and

providing the second link responsive to receiving a request for the updated media content.

14. The server of claim 11 wherein the graphical user interface of the communication device receives a second input to present a second selected media file at a second display device.

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

receiving a second presentation request from the communication device based on the second input;

reformatting the second selected media file responsive to receiving the second presentation request; and

forwarding the second selected media file to the second display device responsive to the second presentation request.

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

17. The server of claim 11, 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 non-transitory, machine-readable storage medium, comprising instructions, wherein responsive to executing the instructions, a processor performs operations comprising:

performing a search for media content to produce search results;

providing the search results via a graphical user interface, wherein the graphical user interface presents additional devices to which a selected search result is provided;

receiving an input from the graphical user interface, wherein the input includes the selected search result and a selection of a second media device from the additional devices to which the selected search result is to be provided; and

providing the selected search result and the selection of the second media device to an application server, wherein the application server reformats the media content according to the second media device to generate updated media content responsive to receiving the search result and the selection of the second media device, wherein the application server stores the updated media content remotely from the processor and the second media device, and wherein the application server transmits location information of the updated media content to the second media device for accessing the updated media content.

19. The non-transitory, machine-readable storage medium of claim 18, wherein the graphical user interface presents the search results as stacked media files, and wherein the location information includes an address of the updated media content.

20. The non-transitory, machine-readable storage medium of claim 18, wherein the processor, application server, and the second media device are associated according to a user account.