Content projection

• US 10,448,111 B2
• Filed: 09/24/2014
• Issued: 10/15/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 09/24/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Inventors: Khoury, Issa Y., Stauber, William Scott, Mikkola, Petteri, Sega, Giorgio Francesco, Moran, Keri Kruse, Threlkeld, Elizabeth Fay, Pendlay, Ryan Chandler
• Primary Examiner(s): Okebato, Sahlu
• Application Number:
  US14/495,158
• Publication Number:
  US 20160086581A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,847 Days
• Field of Search: 345 12, 348564, 348734
• 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: G09G 5/14 Display of multiple viewports
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4122 additional display device, e.g. video projector digital output for controlling a plurality of local displays G06F3/1423
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/41407 embedded in a portable device, e.g. video client on a mobile phone, PDA, laptop constructional details of equipment or arrangements specially adapted for portable computer application G06F1/1626; arrangements specially adapted for mobile receivers in broadcast systems H04H20/57
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/43615 Interfacing a Home Network, e.g. for connecting the client to a plurality of peripherals home Audio Video Interoperability [HAVI] data switching networks H04L12/2805
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/44226 on social networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4524 involving the geographical location of the client retrieval from the Internet by querying based on geographical locations G06F16/9537; systems specially adapted for using geographical information in broadcast systems H04H60/70; protocols in which the network application is adapted for the location of the user terminal in communication control or processing H04L67/52; services making use of the location of users or terminals in wireless networks H04W4/02; locating users or terminals in wireless networks H04W64/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4788 communicating with other users, e.g. chatting arrangements for providing for computer conferences, e.g. chat rooms, to substation in data switching networks H04L12/1813; distributed application using peer-to-peer [P2P] networks H04L67/104
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8133 specifically related to the content, e.g. biography of the actors in a movie, detailed information about an article seen in a video program

Abstract

One or more techniques and/or systems are provided for content projection. For example, a communication connection may be established between a primary device (e.g., a smart phone) of a user and a secondary device (e.g., a television). The primary device may identify an interest of the user to view content on the secondary device (e.g., photos for a recently attended concert). The primary device may retrieve the content (e.g., local photos on the smart phone and/or photos remotely retrieved from a social network). The primary device may project a rendering of the content onto a secondary display of the secondary device (e.g., the smart phone may send the rendering over the communication connection to the television for display).

Claims

1. A system for content projection, comprising:

a primary device configured to;

establish a communication connection with a secondary device;

receive a projection policy, wherein the projection policy specifies whether a content type is allowed to be projected, and the projection policy specifies that the content type is allowed to be projected during a recurring specified time range or the projection policy specifies that the content type is not allowed to be projected during the recurring specified time range;

identify a first current user content interest of a first user of the primary device;

obtain content associated with the first current user content interest;

create a rendering of the content locally on the primary device; and

determine that a current context satisfies the projection policy that specifies whether the content type is allowed to be projected; and

responsive to determining that the current context satisfies the projection policy, project by the primary device, the rendering of the content onto a secondary display of the secondary device, wherein projecting the rendering comprises sending the rendering from the primary device to the secondary device over the communication connection.

2. The system of claim 1, the primary device configured to:

obtain the content from at least one of local primary storage on the primary device or a remote source not comprised on the secondary device.

3. The system of claim 1, the rendering not displayed on a primary display of the primary device.

4. The system of claim 1, the primary device configured to:

define a projection triggering event based upon at least one of a proximity distance between the primary device and the secondary device, an idle mode of the secondary device, a user command, or a location trigger; and

responsive to a triggering of the projection triggering event, project the rendering of the content onto the secondary display.

5. The system of claim 1, the projection policy specifying a content type that is allowed to be projected onto a device type of the secondary device.

6. The system of claim 1, the projection policy specifying a content type that is not allowed to be projected onto a device type of the secondary device.

7. The system of claim 1, the projection policy specifying at least one of a first content type that is allowed to be projected at a specified geographical location or a second content type that is not allowed to be projected at the specified geographical location.

8. The system of claim 1, the primary device configured to:

detect a second primary device of a second user;

collaborate with the second primary device to obtain a set of content associated with the first current user content interest and a second current user content interest of the second user; and

project a collaborative rendering of the set of content onto the secondary display, wherein projecting the collaborative rendering comprises sending the collaborative rendering from the primary device to the secondary device over the communication connection.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein the content comprises first content, the rendering comprises a first rendering, and the primary device is configured to:

receive a second rendering from the second primary device of the second user;

generate the collaborative rendering as a split screen user interface comprising a first user interface portion populated with the first content, of the set of content, corresponding to the first current user content interest of the first user and a second user interface portion populated with second content comprising the second rendering received from the second primary device of the second user, of the set of content, corresponding to the second current user content interest of the second user.

10. The system of claim 8, the primary device configured to:

generate the collaborative rendering as a slideshow user interface comprising first content, of the set of content, corresponding to the first current user content interest of the first user interleaved with second content, of the set of content, corresponding to the second current user content interest of the second user.

11. The system of claim 8, the set of content comprising first content corresponding to both the first current user content interest and the second current user content interest.

12. The system of claim 1, the primary device configured to:

detect a second primary device of a second user;

receive a second current user content interest of the second user from the second primary device;

identify a first display rank for the first user based upon the first current user content interest;

identify a second display rank for the second user based upon the second current user content interest; and

responsive to the first display rank exceeding the second display rank, project the rendering of the content onto the secondary display.

13. The system of claim 1, the primary device configured to:

responsive to potential content exceeding a user sensitivity threshold, disqualify the potential content for projection, as the rendering, onto the secondary display, wherein the user sensitivity threshold indicates a secrecy level.

14. The system of claim 1, the content comprising at least one of an image, a video, a website, audio, email content, calendar content, social network content, a file, text, a map, web service result data, weather, a recommendation from a recommendation service, task completion information, or a document.

17. The system of claim 1, wherein:

a projection triggering event is defined based on a user voice command; and

the rendering of the content is projected responsive to the user voice command of the projection triggering event.

18. The system of claim 1 wherein:

the content type of the projection policy differentiates between work content and personal content.

15. A computer-readable medium comprising processor-executable instructions causing a computing-system to perform a method for content projection, comprising:

establishing a communication connection between a primary device and a secondary device;

receiving a projection policy, wherein the projection policy specifies whether a content type is allowed to be projected, and the projection policy specifies that the content type is allowed to be projected during a recurring specified time range or the projection policy specifies that the content type is not allowed to be projected during the recurring specified time range;

identifying a first current user content interest of a first user of the primary device;

obtaining content associated with the first current user content interest;

create a rendering of the content locally on the primary device and

responsive to determining that a current context satisfies the projection policy, over the communication connection with the secondary device, projecting the rendering of the content onto a secondary display of the secondary device.

16. A method for content projection comprising:

establishing a communication connection between a primary device and a secondary device;

identifying a current user content interest of a first user of the primary device;

obtaining content associated with the current user content interest, wherein the content is obtained locally on the primary device;

creating a rendering of the content locally on the primary device;

receiving a projection policy, wherein the projection policy specifies a content type that is allowed to be projected only during a specified recurring time frame, and the projection policy specifies work or personal content;

responsive to determining that a current time is within the specified time frame and thus satisfies the projection policy, projecting the rendering of the content onto a display of the secondary device over the communication connection with the secondary device.