Caching support for visual search and augmented reality in mobile networks

• US 9,489,773 B2
• Filed: 06/21/2011
• Issued: 11/08/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 06/21/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson
• Original Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson
• Inventors: Damola, Ayodele
• Primary Examiner(s): Brier, Jeffery A
• Application Number:
  US14/127,653
• Publication Number:
  US 20140111545A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,967 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9537 Spatial or temporal dependent retrieval, e.g. spatiotemporal queries
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 19/006 Mixed reality object pose determination, tracking or camera calibration for mixed reality G06T7/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/131 Protocols for games, networked simulations or virtual reality
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/568 Storing data temporarily at an intermediate stage, e.g. caching
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2223 being a public access point, e.g. for downloading to or uploading from clients arrangements specially adapted to plural spots in a confined site in broadcast systems H04H20/63
• 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 21/41407 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 21/4722 for requesting additional data associated with the content
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6131 involving transmission via a mobile phone network wireless downlink channel access H04W74/006
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/18 Information format or content conversion, e.g. adaptation by the network of the transmitted or received information for the purpose of wireless delivery to users or terminals

Abstract

A visual search and augmented reality are performed in a communication system that includes an Internet network attached to a mobile network. Data related to objects that are geographically related to at least one intermediate node is stored in at least one intermediate node in the mobile network. This involves transmitting a request for metadata from a user equipment in the mobile network towards the Internet network via the at least one intermediate node. The request comprises object recognition data related to an object geographically related to the at least one intermediate node. The request is de-tunnelled and intercepted in an intermediate node of the at least one intermediate node.

Claims

1. A method for performing visual search and augmented reality in a communication system comprising an Internet network attached to a mobile network, the method comprising:

storing in at least one intermediate node in the mobile network, data related to objects that are geographically related to the at least one intermediate node;

transmitting a request for metadata from a user equipment in the mobile network towards the Internet network via the at least one intermediate node, which request comprises object recognition data;

de-tunnelling and intercepting the request in an intermediate node of the at least one intermediate node;

matching the request against a filter function in the intermediate node and if the matching is successful, further matching the object recognition data in the intercepted request against object recognition data stored in the intermediate node; and

forwarding metadata to the user equipment if the further matching is successful and existence of metadata is established.

2. The method for performing visual search and augmented reality according to claim 1, comprising:

matching successfully, the request against a filter function in the intermediate node.

3. The method for performing visual search and augmented reality according to claim 2, comprising:

as a result of the successful matching, further matching successfully, the object recognition data in the intercepted request against object recognition data stored in the intermediate node.

4. The method for performing visual search and augmented reality according to claim 3, comprising:

as a result of the successful further matching, establishing existence of metadata corresponding to the object; and

re-tunnelling and forwarding the existing metadata from the intermediate node to the user equipment.

5. The method for performing visual search and augmented reality according to claim 4, wherein the metadata is personalized in the intermediate node based on characteristics of the user equipment.

6. The method for performing visual search and augmented reality according to claim 3, comprising:

as a result of the successful further matching, establish non-existence of metadata corresponding to the object; and

as a result of the established non-existence of metadata, re-tunnelling and forwarding the request for metadata from the intermediate node towards the Internet Network.

7. The method for performing visual search and augmented reality according to claim 2, comprising:

as a result of the successful matching, further matching un-successfully, the object recognition data in the intercepted request against object recognition data stored in the intermediate node; and

as a result of the un-successful further matching, re-tunnelling and forwarding the request for metadata from the intermediate node towards the Internet Network.

8. The method for performing visual search and augmented reality according to claim 1, comprising:

matching un-successfully, the request against a filter function in the intermediate node; and

as a result of the un-successful matching, re-tunnelling and forwarding the request for metadata from the intermediate node towards the Internet Network.

9. The method for performing visual search and augmented reality according to claim 1, whereby the storing of data in the at least one intermediate node is performed according to relevance of metadata in relation to the at least one intermediate node and by transferring the data from higher levels to lower levels.

10. The method for performing visual search and augmented reality according to claim 1, whereby charging data record are generated per generated search request and forwarded to an operator.

11. The method for performing visual search and augmented reality according to claim 1, comprising:

forwarding the request for metadata towards the Internet Network if the matching or the further matching is un-successful or non-existence of metadata is established.

12. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having stored therein a computer program loadable into a processor of a communication system, wherein the computer program comprises code adapted to perform a method for performing visual search and augmented reality in a communication system comprising an Internet network attached to a mobile network, the method comprising:

storing in at least one intermediate node in the mobile network, data related to objects that are geographically related to the at least one intermediate node;

transmitting a request for metadata from a user equipment in the mobile network towards the Internet network via the at least one intermediate node, which request comprises object recognition data;

de-tunnelling and intercepting the request in an intermediate node of the at least one intermediate node;

matching the request against a filter function in the intermediate node and if the matching is successful, further matching the object recognition data in the intercepted request against object recognition data stored in the intermediate node; and

forwarding metadata to the user equipment if the further matching is successful and existence of metadata is established.

13. A Mobile Network Operator node in a communication system comprising an Internet network attached to a mobile network, the node being configured to perform visual search and augmented reality, the node comprising:

means for storing data related to objects that are geographically related to the node;

means for de-tunneling and intercepting a received request for metadata, which request comprises object recognition data;

means for matching the intercepted request against the stored data;

means for extracting stored metadata from a storage in the node, which extracted metadata corresponds to requested data; and

means for re-tunnelling and forwarding the extracted metadata towards a user equipment,

wherein the node is an intermediate node in the mobile network.

14. The Mobile Network Operator node according to claim 13, the node further comprising:

means for re-tunnelling and forwarding the request towards the Internet network.