System and method for redirecting content based on gestures

• US 10,338,689 B1
• Filed: 04/24/2017
• Issued: 07/02/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 04/02/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: Open Invention Network LLC
• Inventors: Patoskie, John
• Primary Examiner(s): Won, Michael
• Application Number:
  US15/494,721
• Time in Patent Office: 799 Days
• Field of Search: 709202, 709203, 709217, 709226, 709232, 709238
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1694 the I/O peripheral being a single or a set of motion sensors for pointer control or gesture input obtained by sensing movements of the portable computer
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2200/1637 Sensing arrangement for detection of housing movement or orientation, e.g. for controlling scrolling or cursor movement on the display of an handheld computer
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/013 Eye tracking input arrangements G06F3/015 takes precedence
• 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: G06F 3/0346 with detection of the device orientation or free movement in a 3D space, e.g. 3D mice, 6-DOF [six degrees of freedom] pointers using gyroscopes, accelerometers or tilt-sensors
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04845 for image manipulation, e.g. dragging, rotation, expansion or change of colour
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1454 involving copying of the display data of a local workstation or window to a remote workstation or window so that an actual copy of the data is displayed simultaneously on two or more displays, e.g. teledisplay
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/106 Display of layout of documents; Previewing
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0277 Online advertisement
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2354/00 Aspects of interface with display user
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2370/022 Centralised management of display operation, e.g. in a server instead of locally
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/005 Adapting incoming signals to the display format of the display terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/025 for remote control or remote monitoring of applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/21 for social networking applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/02 Terminal devices

Abstract

Content such as advertisements received into a mobile device may be more appropriately displayed on an alternative device remote from the mobile device. When ad content is received into the mobile device, the user may perform a physical gesture such as movement of the device or an associated motion sensor. The physical gesture is analyzed in the mobile device and causes the ad content to be redirected to the remote device. Additional physical gestures by the user can be interpreted in the mobile device to manipulate the content on the remote device.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

receiving content into a mobile device;

using one or more content parameters of the content as a lookup to determine whether any preferences exist for the one or more content parameters;

if the preferences include one or more automatic redirection preferences for the content, automatically redirecting the content to an external device in accordance with the one or more automatic redirection preferences without presenting the content to the user on the mobile device;

if there are no automatic redirection preferences for the content, detecting a user gesture with at least one gesture recording device associated with the mobile device;

processing the user gesture, in the mobile device, to determine a redirection instruction associated with the user gesture;

providing the redirection instruction from the mobile device to a content server, the redirection instruction indicating to the content server an external device to redirect content to;

redirecting a better quality version of the content from the content server to the external device in accordance with the redirection instruction;

detecting at least one further user gesture with the at least one gesture recording device;

processing the at least one further physical user gesture to determine a manipulation instruction associated with the at least one further physical user gesture;

providing the manipulation instruction to the content server;

manipulating the better quality version of the content at the content server in accordance with the manipulation instruction; and

providing the manipulated better quality version of the content from the content server to the external device.

2. The method of claim 1 comprising:

processing the redirection instruction to determine an external device; and

redirecting the content to the external device.

3. The method of claim 2 comprising:

processing the redirection instruction to determine one or more formatting parameters for the content; and

presenting the content on the external device in accordance with the one or more formatting parameters.

4. The method of claim 2 comprising:

detecting at least one second user gesture with the at least one gesture recording device;

processing the user gesture to determine a manipulation instruction associated with the user gesture; and

providing the manipulation instruction to the external device to cause manipulation of the content on the external device.

5. The method of claim 1 comprising receiving content into the mobile device from the content server.

6. The method of claim 1 wherein the redirection instruction comprises one or more formatting preferences for presenting the redirected content on the external device.

7. The method of claim 1 comprising:

determining one or more content parameters of the content;

associating the redirection instruction with the one or more content parameters; and

storing the association in a gesture preference datastore.

8. The method of claim 7 comprising:

receiving second content into the mobile device;

determining one or more second content parameters of the second content;

providing the one or more second content parameters to the gesture preference datastore to retrieve one or more redirection preferences in respect of the second content;

redirecting the second content in accordance with the retrieved one or more redirection preferences.

9. The method of claim 7 wherein the preference datastore comprises a memory of the mobile device.

10. The method of claim 1 wherein processing the user gesture comprises:

providing the user gesture to a redirection preferences datastore;

retrieving a redirection preference from the datastore;

applying the redirection preference to the content.

11. The method of claim 1 comprising invoking a preference recording application that enables a user to record a gesture-based preference.

12. The method of claim 1 wherein recording a user gesture comprises recording motion of the mobile device.

13. The method of claim 1 wherein recording a user gesture comprises recording motion of a device locally paired with the mobile device.

14. The method of claim 13 wherein recording a user gesture comprises recording eye movement of the user.

15. The method of claim 1 comprising:

detecting a second gesture with the at least one gesture recording device;

manipulating the content on the external device dependent on the second gesture.

16. A mobile device, comprising:

at least one motion sensor; and

an application executable on at least one processor of the mobile device, the application configured to;

receive content into the mobile device;

use one or more content parameters of the content as a lookup to determine whether any preferences exist for the one or more content parameters;

if the preferences include one or more automatic redirection preferences for the content, automatically redirect the content to an external device in accordance with the one or more automatic redirection preferences without the content being presented to the user on the mobile device;

if there are no automatic redirection preferences for the content,

detect a redirection gesture by the at least one motion sensor;

determine a redirection preference from the redirection gesture;

redirect a better quality version of the content to at least one external device dependent on the redirection preference;

detect at least one manipulation gesture by the at least one motion sensor different to the redirection gesture after the redirect;

process the manipulation gesture to determine a manipulation instruction associated with the manipulation gesture; and

send the manipulation instruction to the content server to cause the content server to manipulate the better quality version of the content at the content server prior to sending the better quality version of the content to the external device.

17. The mobile device of claim 16 comprising a memory that stores a plurality of gesture-based preferences.

18. The mobile device of claim 16 wherein the application is configured to present the content to a user of the mobile device.

19. A method, comprising:

receiving ad content into a mobile device;

using one or more content parameters of the ad content as a lookup to determine whether any preferences exist for the one or more content parameters;

if the preferences include one or more automatic redirection preferences for the ad content, automatically redirecting the ad content to an external device in accordance with the one or more automatic redirection preferences without presenting the ad content to the user on the mobile device;

if there are no automatic redirection preferences for the ad content, detecting a first physical gesture with a mobile device for redirecting ad content;

redirecting a better quality version of the ad content to a remote device in response to the first physical gesture;

detecting at least one second physical gesture by the mobile device for manipulating the ad content;

processing the at least one second physical gesture to determine a manipulation instruction associated with the at least one second physical gesture;

providing the manipulation instruction to a content server;

manipulating the better quality version of the ad content at the content server in accordance with the manipulation instruction; and

providing a manipulated better quality version of the ad content from the content server to the remote device.

20. The method of claim 19 comprising:

determining a content display control command associated with the at least one second physical gesture; and

communicating the display control command to the remote device.