METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING RECOMMENDATIONS TO A USER OF A CLOUD COMPUTING SERVICE

• US 20150095427A1
• Filed: 10/09/2014
• Published: 04/02/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 01/08/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Information Systems America Incorporated (Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Samsung Information Systems America Incorporated (Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.)
• Inventors: Ho, Edwin
• Granted Patent: US 10,235,013 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/204
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/178 Techniques for file synchronisation in file systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/4387 by the use of playlists
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/1822 Conducting the conference, e.g. admission, detection, selection or grouping of participants, correlating users to one or more conference sessions, prioritising transmission
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/52 for supporting social networking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/60 Network streaming of media packets
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/612 for unicast
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/01 Protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/04 specially adapted for terminals or networks with limited capabilities; specially adapted for terminal portability
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/06 specially adapted for file transfer, e.g. file transfer protocol [FTP]
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1095 Replication or mirroring of data, e.g. scheduling or transport for data synchronisation between network nodes
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/535 Tracking the activity of the user network monitoring arrangements H04L43/00; recording of computer activity G06F11/34
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/55 Push-based network services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 56/001 Synchronization between nodes
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/12 WLAN [Wireless Local Area Networks]

Abstract

A method and apparatus is disclosed for transferring digital content from a computing cloud to a computing device and generating recommendations for the user of the computing device.

Claims

1. A system for sharing content of a user between a server including one or more processors and a mobile device, comprising:

the server including a user associated content store that stores one or more pieces of user-up-loaded content;

the mobile device including;

a device content store that stores one or more pieces of content;

a display; and

a processor coupled to the device content store and the display, the processor configured to;

provide to the display a list including one or more pieces of content stored on the mobile device and the one or more pieces of user-uploaded content stored on the server;

request a piece of user-uploaded content stored on the server in response to a user input; and

stream the piece of user-uploaded content to play on the mobile device.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the streamed piece of user-uploaded content is received as a plurality of segments.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the streamed piece of user-uploaded content is downloaded into a buffer in the mobile device and the piece of user-uploaded content is played from the buffer.

4. The system of claim 2, wherein the processor is further configured to stream the piece of user-uploaded content to the mobile device by:

downloading a first portion of the plurality of segments into a first buffer;

playing the first portion of the plurality of segments contained in the first buffer; and

downloading, while the first portion of the plurality of segments contained in the first buffer are being played, a second portion of the plurality of segments into a second buffer, wherein the plurality of segments of the piece of user-uploaded content are each streamed to the mobile device.

5. The system of claim 4, wherein the processor is further configured to:

switch to the second buffer from the first buffer for playing the second portion of the plurality of segments from the second buffer when playing of the first portion of the plurality of segments is completed, wherein the switch is performed without silence gaps.

6. The system of claim 4, wherein the mobile device does not support progressive downloading.

7. The system of claim 5, further comprising a third buffer, wherein the processor is further configured to:

download a third portion of the plurality of segments for a next item on the list while the first portion of segments and the second portion of segments for a current item on the list is played using the first buffer and the second buffer.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the processor further configured to:

download, while the piece of user-uploaded content is being played on the mobile device, another piece of user-uploaded content into a buffer, and

playing the other piece of user-uploaded content from the buffer on completion of the piece of user-uploaded content,

wherein the other piece of user-uploaded content is already downloaded to the mobile device, wherein the other piece of user-uploaded content does not have user-noticeable silence gaps during the playing of the other piece of user-uploaded content.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein the user-up-loaded content comprises one or more photos, ringtones, music, videos, podcasts, radio feeds, applications, and documents.

10. A mobile device for sharing content of a user that has been stored on a server wherein the server includes a content store associated with the user, the mobile device comprising:

a processor;

a memory coupled to the processor;

a display coupled to the processor;

wherein the processor is configured to;

provide to the display a list including one or more pieces of content stored on the mobile device and one or more pieces of user-uploaded content stored on the server;

request a piece of user-uploaded content stored on the server in response to a user input; and

stream the piece of user-uploaded content o play on the mobile device.

11. The mobile device of claim 10, wherein the memory further configured to store the requested piece of user-uploaded content.

12. The mobile device of claim 10, wherein the streamed piece of user-uploaded content is received as a plurality of segments.

13. The mobile device of claim 12, wherein the streamed piece of user-uploaded content is downloaded into a buffer in the mobile device and the downloaded segment is played from the buffer.

14. The mobile device of claim 12, wherein the processor is further configured to stream the piece of user-uploaded content mobile device by:

downloading a first portion of the plurality of segments into a first buffer;

playing the first portion of the plurality of segments contained in the first buffer; and

downloading, while the first portion of the plurality of segments contained in the first buffer are being played, a second portion of the plurality of segments into a second buffer, wherein the plurality of segments of the piece of user-uploaded content are streamed to the mobile device.

15. The mobile device of claim 12, wherein the processor is further configured to:

switch to the second buffer from the first buffer for playing the second portion of the plurality of segments from the second buffer when playing of the first portion of the plurality of segments is completed, wherein the switch is performed without silence gaps.

16. The mobile device of claim 15, wherein the mobile device does not support progressive downloading.

17. The mobile device of claim 15, further comprising a third buffer, wherein the processor is further configured to:

download a third portion of the plurality of segments for a next item on the list while the first portion of segments and the second portion of segments for a current item on the list is played using the first buffer and the second buffer.

18. The mobile device of claim 10, wherein the processor is further configured to:

download, while the piece of user-uploaded content is being played on the mobile device, another piece of user-uploaded content into a buffer, and

playing the other piece of user-uploaded content from the buffer on completion of the piece of user-uploaded content,

wherein the other piece of user-uploaded content s already downloaded to the mobile device, wherein the other piece of user-uploaded content does not have user-noticeable silence gaps during the playing of the other piece of user-uploaded content.

19. The mobile device of claim 10, wherein the user-up-loaded content comprises one or more photos, ringtones, music, videos, podcasts, radio feeds, applications, and documents.

20. The mobile device of claim 10, wherein the mobile device comprises one of a mobile phone and a portable computing device.