Unified content posting

• US 10,462,246 B2
• Filed: 09/07/2016
• Issued: 10/29/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 12/30/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Original Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Inventors: Ding, Junyong Jonathan, Huang, Bo
• Primary Examiner(s): Mirza, Adnan M
• Application Number:
  US15/258,890
• Publication Number:
  US 20160381167A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,147 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/957 Browsing optimisation, e.g. caching or content distillation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/126 the source of the received data
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/56 Provisioning of proxy services store-and-forward switching systems in data switching networks H04L12/54
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/562 Brokering proxy services
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/565 Conversion or adaptation of application format or content adding application control or application functional data H04L67/561
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/567 Integrating service provisioning from a plurality of service providers
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2181 comprising remotely distributed storage units, e.g. when movies are replicated over a plurality of video servers distributed storage of data in networks, e.g. transport arrangements for network file system [NFS], storage area networks [SAN] or network attached storage [NAS], H04L67/1097
• 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 21/2393 involving handling client requests scheduling or organising the servicing of application requests H04L67/60
• 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 21/437 Interfacing the upstream path of the transmission network, e.g. for transmitting client requests to a VOD server flow control in data networks H04L47/10; streaming protocols, e.g. RTP or RTCP, H04L65/65; scheduling or organising the servicing of application requests in data packet switching networks H04L67/60
• 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 21/8586 by using a URL processing chained hypermedia data for information retrieval G06F16/94; information retrieval from the Internet by using URLs G06F16/955; URL in broadcast information H04H20/93; Web-based protocols H04L67/02

Abstract

Methods, apparatuses and systems to provide a unified content posting mechanism.

Claims

1. An apparatus capable of communicating with multiple website hosts and a computer device, at least in part via a network, the apparatus comprising:

at least one server capable of providing, at least in part, services that comprise at least one broker service;

the at least one broker service comprising capability to sign onto the multiple website hosts in response, at least in part, to identification of a user by the at least one server;

the identification being capable of being based, at least in part, upon user identification information provided to the at least one server via the computer device;

the at least one broker service being capable, at least in part, of signing onto the website hosts using pre-stored security-related information of the at least one broker service stored at the at least one server, the pre-stored security-related information being capable of being (1) associated, at least in part, with the user and (2) different from the user identification information;

the at least one server also being capable of receiving content data from the computer device via the network;

the content data being capable of comprising media content;

the services also being capable of comprising other capabilities comprising (1) converting, at least in part, format of the content data into another format that is capable of being associated, at least in part, with at least one website posting, and (2) performing the at least one website posting;

wherein the services are capable of being invoked, at least in part, via at least one Uniform Resource Locator (URL).

2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein:

the content data comprises video data.

3. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein:

the at least one server comprises mirror servers in multiple continents.

4. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein:

the computer device comprises a handheld mobile telephone device; and

the network comprises an Internet.

5. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein:

the at least one server comprises multiple processors; and

the computer device is capable, when the computer device is in operation, of wireless communication with the at least one server.

6. Non-transitory computer-readable memory storing instructions that are capable of being executed by at least one server, the instructions when executed by the at least one server resulting in the at least one server being capable of communicating with multiple website hosts and a computer device, at least in part via a network, the instructions when executed by the at least one server also resulting in the at least one server being capable of performing operations comprising:

providing, at least in part, services that comprise at least one broker service;

the at least one broker service comprising capability to sign onto the multiple website hosts in response, at least in part, to identification of a user by the at least one server;

the identification being capable of being based, at least in part, upon user identification information provided to the at least one server via the computer device;

the at least one broker service being capable, at least in part, of signing onto the website hosts using pre-stored security-related information of the at least one broker service stored at the at least one server, the pre-stored security-related information being capable of being (1) associated, at least in part, with the user and (2) different from the user identification information;

the at least one server also being capable of receiving content data from the computer device via the network;

the content data being capable of comprising media content;

the services also being capable of comprising other capabilities comprising (1) converting, at least in part, format of the content data into another format that is capable of being associated, at least in part, with at least one website posting, and (2) performing the at least one website posting;

wherein the services are capable of being invoked, at least in part, via at least one Uniform Resource Locator (URL).

7. The computer-readable memory of claim 6, wherein:

the content data comprises video data.

8. The computer-readable memory of claim 6, wherein:

the at least one server comprises mirror servers in multiple continents.

9. The computer-readable memory of claim 6, wherein:

the computer device comprises a handheld mobile telephone device; and

the network comprises an Internet.

10. The computer-readable memory of claim 6, wherein:

the at least one server comprises multiple processors; and

the computer device is capable, when the computer device is in operation, of wireless communication with the at least one server.

11. A method implemented, at least in part, using at least one server, the at least one server being capable of communicating with multiple website hosts and a computer device via, at least in part, a network, the method comprising:

providing, at least in part, via the at least one server, services that comprise at least one broker service;

the at least one broker service comprising capability to sign onto the multiple website hosts in response, at least in part, to identification of a user by the at least one server;

the identification being capable of being based, at least in part, upon user identification information provided to the at least one server via the computer device;

the at least one broker service being capable, at least in part, of signing onto the website hosts using pre-stored security-related information of the at least one broker service stored at the at least one server, the pre-stored security-related information being capable of being (1) associated, at least in part, with the user and (2) different from the user identification information;

the at least one server also being capable of receiving content data from the computer device via the network;

the content data being capable of comprising media content;

the services also being capable of comprising other capabilities comprising (1) converting, at least in part, format of the content data into another format that is capable of being associated, at least in part, with at least one website posting, and (2) performing the at least one website posting;

wherein the services are capable of being invoked, at least in part, via at least one Uniform Resource Locator (URL).

12. The method of claim 11, wherein:

the content data comprises video data.

13. The method of claim 11, wherein:

the at least one server comprises mirror servers in multiple continents.

14. The method of claim 11, wherein:

the computer device comprises a handheld mobile telephone device; and

the network comprises an Internet.

15. The method of claim 11, wherein:

the at least one server comprises multiple processors; and

the computer device is capable, when the computer device is in operation, of wireless communication with the at least one server.

16. An apparatus capable of communicating with multiple website hosts and a computer device via a network, the apparatus comprising:

one or more servers capable of providing services that comprise one or more broker services;

the one or more broker services comprising capability to sign onto the multiple website hosts in response, at least in part, to identification of a user by the one or more servers;

the identification being capable of being based upon user identification information provided to the one or more servers via the computer device;

the one or more broker services being capable of signing onto the website hosts using pre-stored security-related information of the one or more broker services stored at the one or more servers, the pre-stored security-related information being capable of being (1) associated with the user and (2) different from the user identification information;

the one or more servers also being capable of receiving content data from the computer device via the network;

the content data being capable of comprising media content;

the services also being capable of comprising other capabilities comprising (1) converting, at least in part, format of the content data into another format that is capable of being associated with one or more website postings, and (2) performing the one or more website postings;

wherein the services are capable of being invoked, at least in part, via one or more Uniform Resource Locators (URL).

17. The apparatus of claim 16, wherein:

the content data comprises video data.

18. The apparatus of claim 16, wherein:

the one or more servers comprise mirror servers in multiple continents.

19. The apparatus of claim 16, wherein:

the computer device comprises a handheld mobile telephone device; and

the network comprises an Internet.

20. The apparatus of claim 16, wherein:

the one or more servers comprise multiple processors; and

the computer device is capable, when the computer device is in operation, of wireless communication with the one or more servers.

21. A computer device capable of communicating, when the computer device is in operation, with at least one server via, at least in part, a network, the at least one server being capable of communicating multiple website hosts, the at least one server also being capable of providing services that comprise at least one broker service, the computer device comprising:

a processor;

computer-readable memory storing instructions that are capable of being executed, at least in part, by the processor, the instructions, when executed, at least in part, by the processor resulting in the performance of operations comprising;

providing identification, at least in part, of a user to be used, at least in part, by the at least one server, in association with provision of the services, the at least one broker service comprising capability of the at least one server to sign onto the multiple website hosts in response, at least in part, to the identification of the user; and

providing content data to the at least one server via the network, the content data being capable of comprising media content;

wherein;

the identification is capable of being based, at least in part, upon user identification information provided by the computer device to the at least one server;

the at least one broker service is capable, at least in part, of signing onto the website hosts using pre-stored security-related information of the at least one broker service stored at the at least one server, the pre-stored security-related information being capable of being (1) associated, at least in part, with the user and (2) different from the user identification information;

the services also are capable of comprising other capabilities comprising (1) converting, at least in part, format of the content data into another format that is capable of being associated, at least in part, with at least one website posting, and (2) performing the at least one website posting; and

the services are capable of being invoked, at least in part, via at least one Uniform Resource Locator (URL).

22. The apparatus of claim 21, wherein:

the content data comprises video data;

the at least one server comprises mirror servers in multiple continents;

the computer device comprises a handheld mobile telephone device;

the network comprises an Internet;

the at least one server comprises multiple processors; and

the computer device is capable, when the computer device is in operation, of wireless communication with the at least one server.