SYSTEMS, METHODS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR THE DELIVERY OF EMAIL TEXT MESSAGES AND AUDIO VIDEO ATTACHMENTS TO AN IPTV DISPLAY DEVICE

• US 20090144379A1
• Filed: 12/04/2007
• Published: 06/04/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 12/04/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: At&T Delaware Intellectual Property, Inc. (AT&T, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: At&T Delaware Intellectual Property, Inc. (AT&T, Inc.)
• Inventors: Hill, N. Peter, Cassanova, Jeffrey
• Granted Patent: US 8,682,983 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/206
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/066 Format adaptation, e.g. format conversion or compression
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/224 providing notification on incoming messages, e.g. pushed notifications of received messages
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4786 e-mailing message switching systems, e.g. electronic mail systems H04L51/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4882 for displaying messages, e.g. warnings, reminders arrangements for providing short real-time information to substation in data switching networks H04L12/1895
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6125 involving transmission via Internet transmission by internet of broadcast information H04H60/82
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/173 with two-way working, e.g. subscriber sending a programme selection signal

Abstract

The present invention relates to a method for the delivery and display of an email text message and audio/video attachment to an IPTV enabled display device. The method comprises retrieving an email message and at least one audio/video attachment from an email account, and saving the email message and one audio/video attachment. The method further comprises analyzing the retrieved email message to determine if an IPTV account is associated with data that is comprised within the email message, and transmitting a notification to the IPTV account in the event that the email data that is comprised within the email message is determined to be associated with the IPTV account.

Claims

1. A method for the delivery and display of an email text message and at least one audio/video attachment to an IPTV enabled display device, the method comprising:

retrieving at least one email message and at least one audio/video attachment from an email account;

saving the at least one email message and at least one audio/video attachment;

analyzing the retrieved at least one email message to determine if an IPTV account is associated with data that is comprised within the at least one email message; and

transmitting a notification to the IPTV account in the event that the email data that is comprised within the at least one email message is determined to be associated with the IPTV account.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the email account is queried at predetermined time intervals in order to determine if new email messages have been received at the email account.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein for each for each email message that is retrieved from the email account the text message of the email message is saved to an email log.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein analyzing each retrieved email message to determine if an IPTV account is associated with data that is comprised within the email message comprises analyzing a destination header of the email message in order to retrieve data that is associated with an IPTV account identifier.

5. The method of claim 5, further comprising accessing the notification to the IPTV account via an IPTV set top box, wherein the notification is transmitted to, and displayed on a display device that is in communication with the IPTV set top box.

6. The method claim 5, further comprising retrieving the at least one email message and at least one audio/video attachment via the IPTV set top box.

7. The method of claim 6, further comprising transmitting the at least one email message and at least one audio/video attachment from the IPTV set top box to the display device, wherein the email message is displayed on the display device.

8. A system for the delivery and display of an email text message and at least one audio/video attachment to an IPTV enabled display device, the system comprising:

an IPTV gateway, the IPTV gateway being in communication with at least one email server, the IPTV gateway further comprising;

a front-end processing system;

a back-end processing system, the back-end processing system being in communication with the front-end processing system, wherein the back-end processing system further comprises a video analyzation component; and

a database storage device, the storage device being in communication with the back-end processing system.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein at least one email message and at least one audio/video attachment are retrieved from the email account by the back-end processing system.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein the back-end processing system delivers the at least one audio/video attachment to a media server, the media server being configured to transcode the received audio/video attachment to a predetermined format.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein upon the completion of the audio/video attachment transcoding operation, the back-end processing system puts the transcoded audio/video onto the media server.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein the back-end system delivers the retrieved at least one email message to the database storage device, the email message being saved to an email log.

13. The system of claim 12, wherein the back-end processing system analyzes the retrieved at least one email message to determine if an IPTV account is associated with data that is comprised within the email message.

14. The system of claim 13, wherein a notification is transmitted from the IPTV gateway to the IPTV account in the event that the email data that is comprised within the at least one email message is determined to be associated with the IPTV account.

15. The system of claim 14, wherein the notification to the IPTV account is accessed via an IPTV set top box, the notification being transmitted to and displayed on a display device that is in communication with the IPTV set top box.

16. The system of claim 15, wherein the at least one email message and at least one audio/video attachment are retrieved via the IPTV set top box, the retrieved email message and at least one audio/video attachment thereafter being delivered to the display device for display.

17. A computer program product that includes a computer readable medium useable by a processor, the medium having stored thereon a sequence of instructions which, when executed by the processor, causes the processor to delivery an email text message and at least one audio/video attachment to an IPTV enabled display device by:

retrieving at least one email message and at least one audio/video attachment from an email account;

saving the at least one email message and at least one audio/video attachment;

analyzing the retrieved at least one email message to determine if an IPTV account is associated with data that is comprised within the email message; and

transmitting a notification to the IPTV account in the event that the email data that is comprised within the at least one email message is determined to be associated with the IPTV account.

18. The computer program product of claim 17, wherein the email account is queried at predetermined time intervals in order to determine if new email messages have been received at the email account.

19. The computer program product of claim 18, wherein for each for each email message that is retrieved from the email account the text message of the email message is saved to an email log.

20. The computer program product of claim 19, wherein analyzing each retrieved email message to determine if an IPTV account is associated with data that is comprised within the email message comprises analyzing a destination header of the email message in order to retrieve data that is associated with an IPTV account identifier.