METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ACCESSING APPLICATIONS

• US 20090199252A1
• Filed: 01/30/2009
• Published: 08/06/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 01/31/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Inventors: Wieczorek, Philippe, Stephan, Yann, Kowaiski, Francois-Xavier, Wyld, Brian
• Application Number:
  US12/362,748
• Publication Number:
  US 20090199252A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 725/105
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/303 Terminal profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/564 Enhancement of application control based on intercepted application data
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/234363 by altering the spatial resolution, e.g. for clients with a lower screen resolution
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/25808 Management of client data terminal profiles in network data switching protocols H04L67/303
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6131 involving transmission via a mobile phone network wireless downlink channel access H04W74/006
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6137 involving transmission via a telephone network, e.g. POTS
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8543 using a description language, e.g. Multimedia and Hypermedia information coding Expert Group [MHEG], eXtensible Markup Language [XML] information retrieval of semistructured data, the underlying structure being taken into account, e.g. mark-up language structure data G06F16/80
• 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 7/148 Interfacing a video terminal to a particular transmission medium, e.g. ISDN
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/17318 Direct or substantially direct transmission and handling of requests

Abstract

According to one aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method for providing access to an application through a user terminal, comprising: executing an application and generating visual application output data; creating video data from the visual application output data, the video data being in a format of the user terminal; and sending the video data to the user terminal through a video channel.

Claims

1. A method for providing access to an application through a user terminal, comprising:

executing an application and generating visual application output data;

creating video data from the visual application output data; and

sending the video data to the user terminal through a video channel.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

writing the generated application output data to a memory; and

indicating when the contents of the memory have been modified, the steps of

creating and sending video data being adapted for creating and sending video data in response to the indication.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising receiving user input from the user terminal through the video channel, and controlling the application using the received user input.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising determining characteristics of the user terminal and adapting at least some of the steps of generating visual application output data, creating video data and sending video data in accordance with those determined characteristics, wherein the characteristics include at least one of:

screen size, screen resolution, support video codecs, and supported audio codecs.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of executing the application comprises retrieving a mark-up language description of application logic, and rendering that mark-up language description to provide the application.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising establishing a video channel by way of a video call with the user terminal.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of creating video data comprises creating video data using a compressed video codec, and wherein the step of sending the video data comprises streaming the created video data to the user terminal, the video codec being such that no video data is streamed to the user terminal if the content of the video memory has not been modified.

8. The method of claim 1, the step of executing further comprising:

generating audio application output data;

creating audio data from the audio application output data, the audio data being in a format of the user terminal; and

sending the audio data to the user terminal through the video channel.

9. A system operable in accordance with the method of claim 1.

10. A method of accessing an application through a user terminal, comprising:

establishing a video channel with an application;

receiving video data from the application and displaying the video data on a display; and

selectively sending user inputs to the application through the established video channel to thereby issue control signals to the application.