Digital data compression in a cellular phone

• US 8,467,775 B2
• Filed: 09/10/2007
• Issued: 06/18/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 09/12/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Patential Holdings, Inc., Typenex Co-Investment, LLC
• Original Assignee: Ubiquity Holdings
• Inventors: Bailey, Kenneth Stephen, Carmichael, Christopher
• Primary Examiner(s): Karikari, Kwasi
• Application Number:
  US11/852,927
• Publication Number:
  US 20080299956A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,108 Days
• Field of Search: 455/414.4, 455/412.1, 455/419, 455/72, 455/566, 345/2.1, 345/3.3, 345/1.1
• US Class Current: 455/414.3
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72409 by interfacing with external accessories hands-free H04M1/60
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/23106 involving caching operations prefetching while addressing of a memory level in which the access to the desired data or data block requires associative addressing means within memory systems or architectures G06F12/0862; caching at an intermediate stage in a data network H04L67/568
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/23439 for generating different versions
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2393 involving handling client requests scheduling or organising the servicing of application requests H04L67/60
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/25825 involving client display capabilities, e.g. screen resolution of a mobile phone optimising the visualisation of content during browsing in the Internet G06F16/9577; processing of terminal status or physical abilities in wireless networks H04W8/22; authentication in wireless network security H04W12/06
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/25833 involving client hardware characteristics, e.g. manufacturer, processing or storage capabilities allocation of resources considering hardware capabilities in multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/5044; allocation of resources considering software capabilities in multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/5055
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/41407 embedded in a portable device, e.g. video client on a mobile phone, PDA, laptop constructional details of equipment or arrangements specially adapted for portable computer application G06F1/1626; arrangements specially adapted for mobile receivers in broadcast systems H04H20/57
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6131 involving transmission via a mobile phone network wireless downlink channel access H04W74/006
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6181 involving transmission via a mobile phone network arrangements for providing broadcast or conference services to substation in data switching networks in combination with wireless systems H04L12/189; wireless uplink channel access H04W74/004
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/17336 Handling of requests in head-ends

Abstract

Video clips are stored and converted on a website into different formats which are compatible with different cellular phones. The source for the video can be sources such as DVDs, other cellular phones, or broadcast television. The system can automatically store profiles from multiple different phones and automatically carry out a conversion based on information stored in the profile.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

on a website, allowing users to store profiles that indicate information that is indicative of a hardware within the user'"'"'s cellular phone, wherein one item of information represents first hardware for a first user including information defining a specific number of pixels that are displayed by a display of the user'"'"'s cellular phone, said specific number of pixels in a form of x pixels by y pixels, where x represents a number of pixels across the display in a first direction, and y represents a number of pixels across the display in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction, and another item of information represents second hardware for a second user;

said website having a computer allowing said first and second users to carry out operations with a video program, including all of a first operation that includes selecting a video program from stored video programs, a second operation that includes creating a video program on the website by uploading video from the user'"'"'s cellular phone and a third operation that includes creating a video program on the website by recording a video program on the website from a source of television programs;

said computer on said website, storing plural different video compression algorithms, and automatically converting said video program to a compressed format compatible with said hardware in a way that is optimized for compressing for a specific hardware of the user'"'"'s cellular phone including the specific number of pixels in the form of x pixels by y pixels forming the display of the first cellular phone, as indicated by the stored profile for the user; and

storing said automatically converted video information and sending said automatically converted video information to at least one of different cellular telephone users, said automatically converted video information having different characteristics when sent to said first user than it has been sent to said second user.

2. A method as in claim 1, wherein said source of television programs is a cable television feed.

3. A method as in claim 1, wherein said source of television programs is television from a satellite.

4. A method as in claim 1, further comprising receiving information indicative of video information indicates a time when the video information will play, and wherein said website automatically receives said video information when it plays and converts said video information.

5. A method as in claim 1, wherein said website further comprising prompting a user to enter cellular information indicative of their telephone number on a cellular provider, and automatically determining information about the user'"'"'s specific type of cellular phone based on said information, wherein said website finds information that is indicative of the hardware of the user'"'"'s specific cellular phone based on said telephone number, without the user entering specific information identifying the hardware.

6. A method as in claim 5, wherein the website finds said information indicative of screen capacity and number of pixels to send for converted video clip based on said phone number, without the user entering said number of pixels.

7. A method as in claim 6, wherein said automatically converting comprises automatically compressing said video information in a first way to have a first number of pixels for a first cellular phone, and automatically converting said video information in a second way to have a second number of pixels different than said first number of pixels, for a second cellular phone.

8. A method, comprising:

on a website, allowing users to store profiles that indicate information that is indicative of a hardware within the user'"'"'s cellular phone, wherein one profile represents first hardware for a first user including information defining a specific number of pixels that are displayed by a display of the user'"'"'s cellular phone, said specific number of pixels in a form of x pixels by y pixels, where x represents a number of pixels across the display in a first direction, and y represents a number of pixels across the display in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction, and another profile represents second hardware for a second user;

said website having a computer allowing said user to carry out operations with a video program, including a first operation that includes selecting a video program from stored video programs, a second operation that includes creating a video program on the website by uploading video from the user'"'"'s cellular phone and a third operation that includes creating a video program on the website by recording a video program on the website from a source of television programs;

said computer on said website, storing plural different video compression algorithms, and first automatically converting said video program to a compressed format compatible with said hardware in a way that is optimized for compressing for a specific hardware of the user'"'"'s cellular phone, as indicated by the stored profile for the user, and to have a first number of pixels for a first cellular phone including the specific number of pixels in the form of x pixels by y pixels forming the display of the user'"'"'s cellular phone, and automatically converting said video program in a second way to have a second number of pixels different than said first

number of pixels, for a second cellular phone, while compressing said video program according to said number of pixels.

9. A method as in claim 8, wherein said source of television programs is a cable television feed.

10. A method as in claim 8, wherein said source of television programs is a television program being broadcast from a satellite.

11. A method as in claim 8, further comprising, on said website, allowing plural converted video clips to be stored, and allowing selection of one of said video clips to view at a first time, and allowing selection of at least one video clip to send to said cellular phone at a second time.

12. A method as in claim 8, further comprising automatically determining on said website, different characteristics of different cell phones based on information entered by a user that includes the users telephone on a cellular carrier but does not include information about the hardware of the users phone without the user entering specific information identifying the hardware, and automatically compressing and converting said video information in a first way to have a first number of pixels for a first cellular phone, and automatically converting said video information in a second way to have a second number of pixels different than said first number of pixels, for a second cellular phone.

13. A method as in claim 12, wherein the website determines said information indicative of screen capacity and number of pixels to send for a converted video clip based on said phone number, without the user entering said number of pixels.