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U.S. Patent: 8,332,521

Patent Title

Internet-pad specification, the internet-pad specification may include a touch sensitive screen, a digital camera, a document application, an e-mail application, icons over the touch sensitive screen for user selection, a wireless communication unit for wireless connectivity, a digital content application for playing digital content, and an operating system supporting application programming interface (API)

Meta Information

Issued Date: December 11, 2012
Inventor: William Ho Chang et al
External Links: UPSTO, Google Patents

Technical Fields

Smart TV, Smart Watch, Streaming Device, Projector

Abstract

An Internet-Pad is disclosed and enabled. The Internet-Pad is a mobile digital Pad with access to Internet. The product specification of the Internet-Pad may include a digital camera, a touch sensitive screen, a graphical user interface over the touch sensitive screen, an e-mail application, an editing application, an Internet browsing application, an Internet-Pad operating system, and a wireless communication unit for accessing a wireless network. The e-mail application including a GUI with icons over the touch sensitive screen for selection. The Internet-Pad operating system may provide an object model or an application programming interface (API) to facilitate one or more applications to run at the Internet-Pad. The Internet-Pad may include applications for managing digital documents, audio digital content, or video digital content for rendering or playing. The digital content may be encoded, encrypted, or compressed. The Internet-Pad may wireless synchronize, transfer, or stream the digital content to other devices.

Sample Claim

1. An Internet-Pad system having one or more applications with access to digital content, said Internet-Pad system being a wireless mobile information apparatus and including a digital Pad with access to the Internet, the Internet-Pad system comprising:

a touch sensitive screen;

a graphical user interface for interacting with a user over the said touch sensitive screen;

a digital camera;

an image acquisition application;

a processing unit;

a memory unit for storing at least part of the digital content;

a document creation application;

a document editing application;

an e-mail application, the e-mail application including a user interface over the touch sensitive screen for selecting, by the user, icons or functions of the e-mail application;

an Internet browsing application with access to at least part of the digital content;

an operating system in the Internet-Pad system providing an object model or an application programming interface (API) to facilitate one or more applications at the Internet-Pad system;

a wireless communication unit that includes a radio frequency link controller for establishing radio frequency wireless communication between the Internet-Pad system and one or more wireless output devices that are distinct devices from the Internet-Pad system;
an output manager to facilitate managing of digital documents or the digital content at the Internet-Pad system; and

means for discovering, with the wireless communication unit, one or more wireless output devices for wireless connection,

means for enabling selection, over the touch sensitive screen of the Internet-Pad system, a selected wireless output device from among the one or more discovered wireless output devices available for wireless connection with Internet-Pad system,

means for obtaining authentication or security information at the Internet-Pad system,

means for sending information related to the authentication or security information over the secure radio frequency wireless communication connection and through the wireless communication unit to the selected wireless output device, and

means for establishing a secure radio frequency wireless communication connection between the Internet-Pad system and the selected wireless output device for sending the digital documents or the digital content from the Internet-Pad system to the selected wireless output device, employing at least in part the authentication or security information obtained at the Internet-Pad system; and

wherein, the Internet-Pad system is operable for:

receiving, by the output manager, at least part of the digital content, the receiving of the digital content being facilitated at least in part by the Internet-Pad operating system and over the object model or the application programming interface (API),

conforming, by the Internet-Pad system, output data from at least part of the digital content, the conformed output data being in accordance to a format, a language or an instruction suitable for
sending to the selected wireless output device over the secure radio frequency wireless communication connection, and

sending, by the Internet-Pad system, at least part of the output data for output or rendering of at least part of the digital content at the selected wireless output device over the secure radio frequency wireless communication connection via the wireless communication unit;

whereby, the Internet-Pad system enables one or more applications included in the Internet-Pad system for sending at least part of the digital content from the Internet-Pad system to the selected wireless output device over the secure radio frequency wireless communication connection established between the Internet-Pad system and the selected wireless output device.