Media recording device with packet data interface
First Claim
1. An intelligent media device, comprising:
- (a) a packet data communications interface;
(b) a media communication interface for receiving audio and/or video data;
(c) a digital memory for persistently storing received audio and/or video data; and
(d) an intelligent server for generating a virtual interface for controlling said media communication interface and said digital memory through said packet data communications interface.
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Abstract
An intelligent media device, comprising a packet data communications interface; a media communication interface for receiving audio and/or video data; a digital memory for persistently storing received audio and/or video data; and an intelligent server for generating a virtual interface for controlling the media communication interface and the digital memory through said packet data communications interface. The intelligent server may be adaptive. A variety of devices may be interfaced through the packet data communications interface, including telephony, imaging, videoconferencing, security, alarm, environmental control, vehicular, illumination system, domestic appliance; fluid and handling systems, as well as consumer electronic devices. A digital rights manager for enforcing a set of externally supplied restrictions associated with the received audio and/or video data may be incorporated, with a cryptographic processor for selectively cryptoprocessing audio and/or video data in dependence on said rights manager being provided to limit access to the audio and/or video data content.
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23 Claims
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1. An intelligent media device, comprising:
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(a) a packet data communications interface;
(b) a media communication interface for receiving audio and/or video data;
(c) a digital memory for persistently storing received audio and/or video data; and
(d) an intelligent server for generating a virtual interface for controlling said media communication interface and said digital memory through said packet data communications interface. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
wherein: said packet data communications interface communicates with a local area network to at least one external machine and communicates with a remote human user in a manner suitable for use with a browser, to provide instructions for said intelligent server, said local area network optionally including a wireless communications link;
the at least one external machine comprising one or more selected from the group consisting of a telephony system, an imaging system, a videoconferencing system, a consumer electronic device, a security system, an alarm system, an environmental control system, an automobile;
an illumination system, a domestic appliance;
a pump, and a flow control;
said digital memory further storing metadata relating to said received audio and/or video data;
said intelligent server having one or more characteristics selected from the following;
being adaptive to at least one of a human user and/and an external machine, having a mode of operation for acting autonomously based on an inferred program, having a mode of operation for receiving feedback from a human user;
being adapted to analyze communications received from a human user for likely error, being adapted to translate a native external machine interface for presentation to the human user, and being adapted to receive and execute general purpose computer instructions, further comprising a digital rights manager for enforcing a set of externally supplied restrictions associated with said received audio and/or video data, and a cryptographic processor for selectively cryptoprocessing audio and/or video data in dependence on said rights manager.
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6. The intelligent media device according to ciaim 1, wherein said packet data communications interface communicates with at least one external machine which is adaptively controlled.
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20. A method for operating an intelligent media device, comprising:
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providing;
(a) a packet data communications interface;
(b) a media communication interface for communicating audio and/or video data; and
(c) a digital memory for persistently storing received audio and/or video data;
comprising the steps ofgenerating a virtual interface for controlling the media communication interface and the digital memory through the packet data communications interface;
communicating audio and/or video data through the media communication interface; and
storing communicated audio and/or video data. - View Dependent Claims (21)
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22. An intelligent media device, comprising:
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(a) an internetwork interface;
(b) a local area network interface;
(c) a media communication interface for receiving audio and/or video data;
(d) a digital memory for persistently storing received audio and/or video data;
(e) a rights manager for cryptographically enforcing a set of externally supplied restrictions associated with said received audio and/or video data; and
(f) an intelligent control for generating a virtual user interface communicated through either said internetwork interface or said local area network interface, for controlling said media communication interface and said digital memory. - View Dependent Claims (23)
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