Wireless communication device

• US 9,998,161 B2
• Filed: 02/09/2011
• Issued: 06/12/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 02/09/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: NCR Voyix Corporation
• Original Assignee: NCR Corporation (NCR Voyix Corporation)
• Inventors: Henderson, Jim, Grossi, Mark
• Primary Examiner(s): FLEMING-HALL, ERICA L
• Application Number:
  US13/023,633
• Publication Number:
  US 20120202426A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,680 Days
• Field of Search: 455 412
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/16 Circuits

Abstract

A wireless communication device which stores and transfers entire digital media files for later use at transfer speeds compliant with the 60 GHz wireless standard. An example wireless communication device includes a receiver for wirelessly receiving an entire digital media file and associated usage rights from a kiosk while the receiver is within a wireless reception range of the kiosk, a memory for storing the digital media file and the associated usage rights, transfer circuitry for transferring the digital media file and the associated usage rights, and a controller for operating the receiver to receive the entire digital media file and associated rights, for storing the digital media file for later playing, and for operating the transfer circuitry to transfer the digital media file and associated rights.

Claims

1. A wireless communication device comprising:

a receiver that wirelessly receives an entire digital media file and associated usage rights from a kiosk while the receiver is within a wireless reception range of the kiosk, the digital media file selected through an entertainment system and later received by the wireless communication device at a later time when the wireless communication device is within wireless reception range of the kiosk, wherein the entertainment system operates on a device that is different from the wireless communication device and the kiosk, wherein the entertainment system is a television, and wherein the entertainment device includes an input device;

a memory that stores the digital media file;

a secure memory for storing the associated usage rights, and wherein the secure memory and the memory are physically separate from one another;

transfer circuitry that transfers the digital media file from the memory and the transfer circuitry transfers the associated usage rights from the secure memory;

a controller that operates the receiver to receive the entire digital media file and stores the entire digital media file in the memory and the controller operates the receiver to receive the associated rights in the secure memory, and the controller operates the transfer circuitry to transfer the digital media file from the memory and to transfer the associated rights from the secure memory for later playing by the television; and

a Universal Serial Bus (USB) interface that replicates the memory and the secure memory as a secure mass storage device.

2. The device of claim 1, wherein the receiver comprises a 60 GHz standard receiver.

3. The device of claim 1, wherein the transfer circuitry comprises a wireless transmitter.

4. The device of claim 3, wherein the wireless transmitter transfers the entire digital media file and the associated usage rights to a separate playing device for later playing.

5. The device of claim 3, wherein the wireless transmitter transfers the digital media file to a separate playing device during playing by the playing device.

6. The device of claim 3, wherein the wireless transmitter comprises a 60 GHz standard transmitter.

7. The device of claim 1, wherein the transfer circuitry comprises USB circuitry capable of transferring the digital media file and the associated usage rights via a cable as the secure mass storage device.

8. The device of claim 1, wherein the transfer circuitry comprises a card reader/writer capable of transferring the digital media file and the associated usage rights to a card.

9. The device of claim 1, wherein the transfer circuitry transfers the digital media file and the associated usage rights to a separate playing device.

10. The device of claim 9, wherein the playing device comprises a smart phone.

11. The device of claim 9, wherein the playing device comprises a second personal computer.

12. The device of claim 9, wherein the playing device comprises a second television.

13. The device of claim 1, wherein the transfer circuitry comprises a 60 GHz standard transmitter.

14. The device of claim 1, wherein the receiver wirelessly receives the entire digital media file and associated usage rights from the kiosk in less than one minute.

15. The device of claim 1, further comprising a battery.

16. The device of claim 1, further comprising a smart phone jacket containing the receiver, the memory, the transfer circuitry, and the controller.

17. The device of claim 1, further comprising a smart phone docking station containing the receiver, the memory, the transfer circuitry, and the controller.

18. A portable wireless communication device comprising:

a receiver that wirelessly receives an entire digital media file and associated usage rights from a kiosk in less than one minute while the receiver is within range of the kiosk, the digital media file selected through an entertainment system and later received by the portable wireless communication device at a later time when the portable wireless communication device is within wireless reception range of the kiosk, wherein the entertainment system operates on a device that is different from the portable wireless communication device and the kiosk, and wherein the entertainment system is a television, and wherein the entertainment device includes an input device;

a memory that stores the digital media file;

a secure memory that stores the associated usage rights, wherein the memory and the secure memory are physically separate from one another;

transfer circuitry that transfers the digital media file from the memory and the transfer circuitry transfers the associated usage rights from the secure memory to a playing device including one or more of a cable connector and a wireless transmitter, the wireless transmitter transmits the entire digital media file and associated usage rights from the memory and the secure memory in less than one minute while the wireless transmitter is within range of the playing device;

a controller that operates the receiver to receive the entire digital media file into the memory and the controller operates the receiver to receive the associated rights into the secure memory, and the controller operates the transfer circuitry to transfer the digital media file from the memory and to transfer the associated rights from the secure memory to the playing device; and

a Universal Serial Bus (USB) interface that replicates the memory and the secure memory as a secure mass storage device.

19. A method of transferring a digital media file from a kiosk comprising:

receiving by a wireless receiver of a portable wireless device an entire digital media file into a memory and receiving associated usage rights into a secure memory while the wireless receiver is within a wireless reception range of the kiosk, the digital media file selected through an entertainment system and later received by the portable wireless device at a later time when the portable wireless device is within wireless reception range of the kiosk, wherein the entertainment system operates on a device that is different from the portable wireless device and the kiosk, and wherein the entertainment system is a television, and wherein the entertainment device includes an input device, and wherein the memory and the secure memory are physically separate from one another;

storing the digital media file into the memory and storing the associated usage rights into the secure memory; and

transferring the digital media file from the memory and transferring the associated usage rights from the secure memory from a Universal Serial Bus (USB) interface that replicates the memory and the secure memory as a secure mass storage device.

20. The method of claim 19, wherein the receiver comprises a 60 GHz standard receiver.

21. The method of claim 19, wherein the transferring step comprises transmitting by a wireless transmitter the entire digital media file and the associated usage rights to a separate playing device for later playing.

22. The method of claim 19, wherein the transferring step comprises transmitting by a wireless transmitter the digital media file to a playing device during playing by a separate playing device.

23. The method of claim 22, wherein the transmitter comprises a 60 GHz standard transmitter.

24. The method of claim 19, wherein the transferring step comprises transferring the digital media file and the associated usage rights via a cable connected to a separate playing device.

25. The method of claim 19, wherein the transferring step comprises transferring the digital media file and the associated usage rights to a card.

26. The method of claim 19, wherein the playing device comprises a smart phone.

27. The method of claim 19, wherein the playing device comprises a second personal computer.

28. The method of claim 19, wherein the playing device comprises a second television.

29. The method of claim 19, wherein the receiving step comprises receiving the entire digital media file and associated usage rights from the kiosk in less than one minute.