CLIENT DEVICE AND ASSOCIATED METHODOLOGY OF ACCESSING NETWORKED SERVICES

• US 20130246503A1
• Filed: 05/10/2013
• Published: 09/19/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 07/28/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.), Sony Electronics Inc. (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.), Sony Electronics Inc. (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: TAKAKURA, Hiroki, Gershnik, Anna, Beaver, Brian, McCoy, Charles
• Granted Patent: US 9,674,269 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/202
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46

Abstract

A system makes it possible to use services offered by a plurality of servers different from one another is realized with the use of a common API. The system includes a plurality of service-offering servers, a client that uses services offered by the plurality of service-offering servers, and an interchange server that performs intermediary processing when the client uses a service. The client performs communication with the interchange server while using a common API when using any service among a plurality of services offered by the plurality of service-offering servers. The interchange server uses a unique API, which is unique to the service-offering server that offers the service selected by the client, to execute a processing sequence that is unique to the service-offering server. The client may use any service among services offered by the plurality of service-offering servers with the use of a common API without any need to use a unique API, which is unique to each of the plurality of service-offering servers.

Claims

1. (canceled)

2. A method comprising:

receiving, at a server and via a network, information entered into a user interface displayed on a client device, the user interface displaying at least one selectable item determined based on an identity of the client;

providing, from the server via the network, a content item to the client device based on the information received, the content item being displayed in the user interface.

3. The method according to claim 2, wherein the server determines the client identity based on an email address and a password entered into the user interface of the client device.

4. The method according to claim 2, wherein the content item includes at least one organizational category of content items.

5. The method according to claim 2, wherein the content items include videos.

6. The method according to claim 2, wherein the content items include uniform resource locators (URL) corresponding to videos.

7. The method according to claim 2, further comprising:

providing the user interface to the client device via the network as a web page.

8. The method according to claim 2, wherein the user interface is an application running on the client device.

9. A server comprising:

a communication unit configured to communicate with a client device across a network; and

a processor configured to

receiving, via the communication unit, information entered into a user interface displayed on the client device, the user interface displaying at least one selectable item determined based on an identity of the client, and

providing a content item to the client device based on the information received, the content item being displayed in the user interface.

10. The server according to claim 9, wherein the network is a wireless network.

11. The server according to claim 9, wherein the processor is further configured to:

authenticate the client device based on an email address and a password;

provide display information to the client device to generate the user interface when the client device is authenticated, the at least one selectable item corresponding to content items stored on the server.

12. The server according to claim 11, wherein the content items include videos.

13. A system comprising:

a client device configured to

display a user interface application, and

transmit information entered into the user interface application via a network; and

a server configured to

determine an identity of the client device based on an email and a password entered into the user interface,

provide at least one selectable item to the client device for display on the user interface, the at least one selectable item being determined based on the identity of the client,

receive the information entered into the user interface via the network, and

provide a content item to the client device based on the information entered into the user interface.

14. The system according to claim 13, wherein the content item is a uniform resource locator corresponding to a multimedia file.

15. The system according to claim 14, wherein the multimedia file includes a video.

16. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing computer-readable instructions thereon, the computer-readable instructions, when executed by a computer cause the computer to perform a method comprising:

receiving, via a network, information entered into a user interface displayed on a client device, the user interface displaying at least one selectable item determined based on an identity of the client;

providing, via the network, a content item to the client device based on the information received, the content item being displayed in the user interface.