Method and apparatus for transferring information between electronic devices

• US 10,637,933 B2
• Filed: 12/02/2016
• Issued: 04/28/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 05/26/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Logitech Europe S A (Logitech International SA)
• Original Assignee: Logitech Europe S A (Logitech International SA)
• Inventors: Gay, Olivier, Meisser, Mathieu, Rouvinez, Thomas Luc, Sasselli, Nicolas, Zimmermann, Remy
• Primary Examiner(s): Huq, Farzana B
• Application Number:
  US15/368,306
• Publication Number:
  US 20170346880A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,243 Days
• Field of Search: 709213, 709217, 709224-227
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1069 Session establishment or de-establishment
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/403 Arrangements for multi-party communication, e.g. for conferences data switching systems for conference H04L12/18; arrangements for connecting several subscribers to a common circuit, i.e. affording conference facilities H04M3/56; television conferencing systems H04N7/15
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/146 Markers for unambiguous identification of a particular session, e.g. session cookie or URL-encoding
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/12 including a sensor for measuring a physical value, e.g. temperature or motion telephones including GPS signal receivers H04M2250/10
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/147 Communication arrangements, e.g. identifying the communication as a video-communication, intermediate storage of the signals selecting H04Q
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/15 Conference systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/06 Selective distribution of broadcast services, e.g. multimedia broadcast multicast service [MBMS]; Services to user groups; One-way selective calling services

Abstract

Embodiments of the disclosure provided herein generally include a system and a method of configuring and/or controlling the transfer of information between two or more electronic devices due to the interaction of an electronic device and a host identifier signal generating system. Embodiments of the disclosure may include a system and a method of distributing useful information received by or contained within a memory of the electronic device based on the receipt of a host identifier signal. The electronic device may then perform one or more desirable functions or processes based the portable electronic device'"'"'s interaction with the host identifier signal generating system. Some aspects of the invention may include an apparatus, method and/or one or more computing device software applications that are configured to more easily setup, configure and/or control the presentation, distribution, collection and/or analysis of program information residing in a first electronic device to a second electronic device based on the interaction of the first electronic device with the host identifier signal generating system.

Claims

1. A computer implemented method, comprising:

receiving, at a portable electronic device, a first host identifier signal from a host identifier signal generating system;

identifying a host server using information derived from the received first host identifier signal;

transmitting resource locator information from the portable electronic device to the host server via a first communication link, wherein the resource locator information identifies a location within a first memory of the portable electronic device where program information resides;

storing the received resource locator information in a second memory of the host server;

generating, by the host server, a representation of the resource locator information to be displayed on an external electronic device; and

transmitting, by the portable electronic device, at least a portion of the program information to the external electronic device based on a user of the external electronic device selecting the generated representation of the resource locator information.

2. The computer implemented method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving, by the host server, a request to access the program information from the external electronic device, wherein the received request is derived from the representation of the resource locator information.

3. The computer implemented method of claim 1, wherein the resource locator information essentially comprises a text string.

4. The computer implemented method of claim 1, wherein the resource locator information comprises a first URL or a first URI.

5. The computer implemented method of claim 1, wherein the first communication link is a wireless communication link formed on a CDMA, GSM, LTE, HSPA+ or WiMax communication network.

6. The computer implemented method of claim 1, wherein

the transmitted resource locator information is transmitted within a device communication signal provided from the portable electronic device, and the device communication signal further comprises event information or host information;

and

the computer implemented method of storing the received resource locator information further comprises allocating a location within the second memory of the host server to store the resource locator information based on an analysis of the device communication signal.

7. The computer implemented method of claim 1, wherein storing the received resource locator information further comprises generating a virtual environment using one or more software applications running on the host server, and wherein generating the virtual environment includes allocating a location within the second memory of the host server based on an analysis of a device communication signal in which the received resource locator information is contained.

8. The computer implemented method of claim 7, wherein the device communication signal further comprises event information.

9. The computer implemented method of claim 1, wherein generating the representation of the resource locator information comprises making at least a part of the resource locator information accessible to a user via a web page that is accessible on the Internet.

10. The computer implemented method of claim 1, further comprising transmitting the resource locator information to at least one user found on a user access list that is stored within the second memory of the host server.

11. The computer implemented method of claim 1, wherein the host identifier signal generation system comprises:

a first processor;

non-volatile memory having host identifier signal information stored therein; and

a transceiver that is configured to wirelessly transmit the host identifier signal that comprises a first resource locator information, wherein the first resource locator information identifies the resource location of a host server.

12. The computer implemented method of claim 11, wherein the host identifier signal generation system is external to the host, the portable electronic device, and the electronic device.

13. A computer implemented method, comprising:

receiving, at a portable electronic device, a host identifier signal from a host identifier signal generating system;

identifying a host server using information derived from the received host identifier signal;

transmitting a device communication signal from the portable electronic device to the host server via a first communication link, wherein the device communication signal comprises resource locator information that identifies a location where program information resides within a memory of the portable electronic device;

storing the received resource locator information in a memory of the host server;

generating, by the host server, a representation of the resource locator information to be displayed on an external electronic device; and

transmitting, by the portable electronic device, at least a portion of the program information to an external electronic device based on a user of the external device selecting the generated representation of the resource locator information.

14. The computer implemented method of claim 13, further comprising:

receiving, by the host server, a request to access the program information from the external electronic device, where in the received request is derived from the representation of the resource locator information, and

then transmitting the at least a portion of the program information to the external electronic device.

15. The computer implemented method of claim 13, wherein the resource locator information essentially comprises a text string.

16. The computer implemented method of claim 13, wherein the resource locator information comprises a first URL or a first URI.

17. The computer implemented method of claim 13, wherein the first communication link is a wireless communication link formed on a CDMA, GSM, LTE, HSPA+ or WiMax communication network.

18. The computer implemented method of claim 13, wherein

the device communication signal further comprises event information or host information;

and

the storing of the received resource locator information further comprises allocating a location within the memory of the host server to store the resource locator information based on an analysis of the device communication signal.

19. The computer implemented method of claim 13, wherein storing the received resource locator information further comprises generating a virtual environment using one or more software applications running on the host server, and wherein generating the virtual environment includes allocating a location within the memory of the host server based on an analysis of the device communication signal.

20. The computer implemented method of claim 19, wherein the device communication signal further comprises event information.

21. The computer implemented method of claim 13, wherein generating the representation of the resource locator information comprises making at least a part of the resource locator information accessible to a user via a web page that is accessible on the Internet.

22. A system for sharing program information by electronic devices, comprising:

a host identifier signal generation system, comprising;

a first processor;

a non-volatile first memory having host identifier signal information stored therein; and

a first transceiver that is configured to wirelessly transmit a host identifier signal that comprises a first resource locator information, wherein the first resource locator information identifies the resource location of a host server;

a portable electronic device, comprising;

a second processor;

a second transceiver that is configured to receive the host identifier signal from the first host identifier signal generation system;

a non-volatile second memory having program information stored therein and a number of instructions which, when executed by the second processor, causes the portable electronic device to perform operations comprising;

identifying the host server using the first resource locator information derived from the host identifier signal;

transmitting a second resource locator information to the host server via a first communication link, wherein the second resource locator information identifies a location in the second memory where the program information resides; and

transmitting at least a portion of the program information based on a user of an external device selecting a representation of the second resource locator information; and

the host server, comprising;

a third processor;

a third transceiver that is configured to receive the transmitted second resource locator information from the portable electronic device; and

a non-volatile third memory having a number of instructions stored therein which, when executed by the third processor, causes the host server to perform operations comprising;

receiving the transmitted second resource locator information;

storing the received second resource locator information in memory of the host server; and

generating the representation of the second resource locator information to be displayed on the external electronic device.

23. The system of claim 22, wherein generating the representation of the second resource locator information comprises making at least a part of the second resource locator information accessible to a user via a web page that is accessible on the Internet.

24. A computer implemented method, comprising:

receiving, at a portable electronic device, a host identifier signal from a host identifier signal generating system;

identifying a host server using information derived from the received host identifier signal;

transmitting resource locator information from the portable electronic device to the host server via a first communication link, wherein the resource locator information identifies a location within a first memory of the portable electronic device where program information resides;

storing the received resource locator information in a second memory of the host server;

transmitting, from the host server, the resource locator information to external electronic devices found on a user access list that is stored in the second memory of the host server; and

transmitting, by the portable electronic device, at least a portion of the program information to at least one of the external electronic devices based on a user of the external electronic device selecting the transmitted resource locator information.