Distributed event engine

• US 9,838,469 B1
• Filed: 04/03/2017
• Issued: 12/05/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 05/27/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Xevo, Inc. (Lear Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Surround IO
• Inventors: Ludwig, John, Tong, Richard
• Primary Examiner(s): Bui, Jonathan
• Application Number:
  US15/478,121
• Time in Patent Office: 246 Days
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/65 automatically by game devices or servers from real world data, e.g. measurement in live racing competition
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/92 Video game devices specially adapted to be hand-held while playing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/017 Gesture based interaction, e.g. based on a set of recognized hand gestures interaction based on gestures traced on a digitiser G06F3/04883
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 10/95 structured as a network, e.g. client-server architectures
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 20/52 Surveillance or monitoring of activities, e.g. for recognising suspicious objects recognising microscopic objects G06V20/69
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1001 for accessing one among a plurality of replicated servers
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/131 Protocols for games, networked simulations or virtual reality
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/021 Services related to particular areas, e.g. point of interest [POI] services, venue services or geofences
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/023 using mutual or relative location information between multiple location based services [LBS] targets or of distance thresholds
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/027 using movement velocity, acceleration information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/08 User group management
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/185 by embedding added-value information into content, e.g. geo-tagging

Abstract

A system includes event engine logic distributed across a plurality of devices dispersed over an area of coverage, and logic to process events according to layout information homologized by an event web service from scene captures and location data from the plurality of devices, and logic to partition the homologized layout into areas of coverage and to assign each area of coverage to a device or subgroup of devices in the plurality of devices.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

at least one computer server device comprising one or more processors; and

an event web service that when executed at least in part by the one or more processors of the at least one computer server device creates a homologized layout from scene captures and location data from a plurality of devices dispersed over an area of coverage, partitions the homologized layout into smaller areas of coverage, and assigns each smaller area of coverage to a device or subgroup of devices in the plurality of devices, wherein each device generates events from monitoring its assigned area.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein each device generates events for motion of objects or people in its assigned area.

3. The system of claim 2, the events corresponding to gestures by people.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein each device generates events for sounds in its assigned area.

5. The system of claim 4, wherein the generated events are communicated to the event web service.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the event engine logic maps events to user actions of gesturing with the devices, performs collision detection, and determines associated sounds or optical effects.