Cross-platform video display

• US 8,763,055 B1
• Filed: 11/06/2012
• Issued: 06/24/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 11/02/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: RPX Corporation
• Original Assignee: Hopto Inc.
• Inventors: Eilam, Eldad
• Primary Examiner(s): Smith, Chenea
• Application Number:
  US13/670,163
• Time in Patent Office: 595 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 725/93
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4316 for displaying supplemental content in a region of the screen, e.g. an advertisement in a separate window

Abstract

A request is sent from a client device to a host device hosting an application. A display associated with execution of the application on the host device may include a video portion and one or more non-video portions. Information may be sent from the host device to the client device over the communication network. Such information may include display information for the video portion as described by raster data and information for the non-video portions as described by vector data. Such information may be used by the client device to generate a display corresponding to the host display. The video portion of the client display may be based on the raster data, and the non-video portions of the client display may be based on the vector data.

Claims

1. A method for cross-platform display, the method comprising:

receiving a request concerning application display information from a client device to a host device hosting an application;

executing the application on the host device, wherein a host device display associated with execution of the application on the host device includes a video portion and one or more non-video portions;

identifying the video portion of the generated display and the one or more non-video portions of the generated display;

generating a plurality of separate sets of display instructions,

wherein one separate set of the display instructions pertains to the identified video portion of the host device display and uses raster data to describe the identified video portion,

wherein at least a second separate set of display instructions pertains to the identified one or more non-video portions of the generated display and uses vector data to describe the identified one or more non-video portions, and

wherein a third separate set of display instructions pertains to placement of the identified video portion in relation to the identified one or more non-video portions when the identified video portion and the identified one or more non-video portions are combined into a single page; and

transmitting the plurality of separate sets of display instructions over a communication network to the client device, wherein the client device executes the plurality of separate sets of display instructions in combination to generate a single display corresponding to the host device display,

wherein the single display includes a video portion and one or more non-video portions,

wherein the video portion of the client display is based on the raster data in the first separate set of display instructions and the one or more non-video portions of the client display is based on the vector data in the at least one second separate set of display instructions,

and wherein the video portion of the single client display is placed in relation to the one or more non-video portions of the single client display based on the separate set of display instructions pertaining to placement.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising responding to the request by identifying the video portion as video and the one or more non-video portions in the generated display as non-video.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the instructions for identifying the video portion and the one or more non-video portions includes instructions for identifying a video frame of the video portion.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein at least one of the plurality of separate sets of display instructions includes metadata regarding the video portion and the one or more non-video portions.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein execution of the plurality of separate sets of display instructions in combination includes combining the raster data and the vector data to generate the single display on the client device.

6. An apparatus for cross-platform video display, the apparatus comprising:

a communication interface for receiving a request concerning application display information from a client device to a host device hosting an application; and

a processor for;

executing the application on the host device, wherein a host device display associated with execution of the application on the host device includes a video portion and one or more non-video portions,

executing instructions to identify the video portion of the generated display and the one or more non-video portions of the generated display,

executing instructions to generate a plurality of separate sets of display instructions,

wherein one separate set of the display instructions pertains to the identified video portion of the host device display and uses raster data to describe the identified video portion,

wherein at least a second separate set of display instructions pertains to the identified one or more non-video portions of the generated display and uses vector data to describe the identified one or more non-video portions, and

wherein a third separate set of display instructions pertains to placement of the identified video portion in relation to the identified one or more non-video portions when the identified video portion and the identified one or more non-video portions are combined into a single page; and

wherein the communication interface transmits the plurality of separate sets of display instructions over a communication network to the client device, wherein the client device executes the plurality of separate sets of display instructions in combination to generate a single display corresponding to the host device display,

wherein the single display includes a video portion and one or more non-video portions,

wherein the video portion of the client display is based on the raster data in the first separate set of display instructions and the one or more non-video portions of the client display is based on the vector data in the at least one second separate set of display instructions, and

wherein the video portion of the single client display is placed in relation to the one or more non-video portions of the single client display based on the separate set of display instructions pertaining to placement.

7. The apparatus of claim 6, further comprising responding to the request by identifying the video portion as video and the one or more non-video portions in the generated display as non-video.

8. The apparatus of claim 7, wherein the instructions for identifying the video portion and the one or more non-video portions include instructions for identifying a video frame of the video portion.

9. The apparatus of claim 6, wherein at least one of the plurality of separate sets of display instructions includes metadata regarding the video portion and the one or more non-video portions.

10. The apparatus of claim 6, wherein execution of the plurality of separate sets of display instructions in combination includes combining the raster data and the vector data to generate the single display on the client device.

11. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, having embodied thereon a program executable by a processor to perform a method for cross-platform video display, the method comprising:

receiving a request concerning application display information from a client device to a host device hosting an application;

executing the application on the host device, wherein a host device display associated with execution of the application on the host device includes a video portion and one or more non-video portions;

identifying the video portion of the generated display and the one or more non-video portions of the generated display;

generating a plurality of separate sets of display instructions,

wherein one separate set of the display instructions pertains to the identified video portion of the host device display and uses raster data to describe the identified video portion,

wherein at least a second separate set of display instructions pertains to the identified one or more non-video portions of the generated display and uses vector data to describe the identified one or more non-video portions, and

wherein a third separate set of display instructions pertains to placement of the identified video portion in relation to the identified one or more non-video portions when the identified video portion and the identified one or more non-video portions are combined into a single page; and

transmitting the plurality of separate sets of display instructions over a communication network to the client device, wherein the client device executes the plurality of separate sets of display instructions in combination to generate a single display corresponding to the host device display,

wherein the single display includes a video portion and one or more non-video portions,

wherein the video portion of the client display is based on the raster data in the first separate set of display instructions and the one or more non-video portions of the client display is based on the vector data in the at least one second separate set of display instructions, and

wherein the video portion of the single client display is placed in relation to the one or more non-video portions of the single client display based on the separate set of display instructions pertaining to placement.

12. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 11, further comprising executable instructions for responding to the request by identifying the video portion as video and the one or more non-video portions in the generated display as non-video.

13. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 12, wherein at least one of the plurality of separate sets of instructions specify that identifying the video portion and the one or more non-video portions includes instructions for identifying a video frame of the video portion.

14. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 11, wherein at least one of the plurality of separate sets of display instructions includes metadata regarding the video portion and the one or more non-video portions.

15. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 11, wherein at least one of the plurality of separate sets of display instructions includes information concerning combining the raster data and the vector data to generate the single display on the client device.