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U.S. Patent: 10,866,773

Patent Title

Information apparatus for playing digital content that is received from a digital content service provided over the internet

Meta Information

Issued Date: December 15, 2020
Inventor: William Ho Chang et al
External Links: UPSTO, Google Patents

Technical Fields

Smart Phone / Tablet, Smart TV, Smart Watch, Streaming Device, Laptop, Projector

Abstract

An information apparatus (e.g., Internet appliance, information pad, digital camera, video camera, etc.), or software applications of the information apparatus, supporting voice commands for receiving and playing digital content from a service provided over a network (e.g., Internet) are herein disclosed and enabled. The information apparatus may establish a wireless local area network connection to access a service over the Internet. The service may be a subscribed service. While connected to the service, the information apparatus may capture, using a digital capturing device included in the information apparatus, digital content that includes image or video content; send the captured digital content to the service; and, in response to having sent the digital content to the service, the information apparatus may receive, from the service, output data that includes audio content or video content for outputting or playing at a display device associated with the information apparatus.

Sample Claim

1. An information apparatus for receiving output data from one or more servers over a network, the network includes the Internet, the output data includes image content, picture content, audio content, or video content, individually or in any combination, the information apparatus comprising:

one or more processors; memory or storage; software or firmware stored at least in part in the memory or storage; a digital capturing device for capturing images or for capturing video; a display screen that is at least an output device for outputting or rendering content; one or more wireless communication units that include wireless communication circuitry for wireless communication, the wireless communication includes wireless local area network communication; wherein upon execution of the software or the firmware, at least partly, by the one or more processors, the information apparatus:

(1) couples, using the wireless communication circuitry of the information apparatus, the information apparatus to a wireless local area network;

(2) establishes, using the wireless communication circuitry of the information apparatus and over the wireless local area network coupled in (1), a wireless connection to the one or more servers over the network that includes the Internet;

(3) wirelessly accesses, using the wireless communication circuitry of the information apparatus and via the wireless connection established in (2), services provided by the one or more servers, the wireless access of the services is based, at least in part, on the information apparatus having provided appropriate authentication information or security information to the one or more servers for accessing the services provided by the one or more servers over the network that includes the Internet;

(4) captures, using the digital capturing device of the information apparatus, digital content, the digital content includes one or more of a picture, an image or a video, individually or in any combination;

(5) obtains, at the information apparatus, a content object, the content object includes at least part of the digital content captured in (4);

(6) wirelessly transmits, using the wireless communication circuitry of the information apparatus and via the wireless connection established in (2), the content object obtained in (5), from the information apparatus to the one or more servers over the network that includes the Internet, the wireless transmission of the content object is based, at least in part, on the information apparatus having provided the authentication information or the security information to the one or more servers in (3);

(7) wirelessly receives, using the wireless communication circuitry of the information apparatus and via the wireless connection established in (2), output data from the services that are wirelessly accessed by the information apparatus in (3) and provided by the one or more servers over the network, the wireless receiving of the output data being in response to the information apparatus having wirelessly transmitted the content object to the one or more servers in (6); and

(8) renders or outputs or plays, at the display screen that is at least an output device, at least part of the output data wirelessly received in (7), the output data includes at least one of image content, picture content, or video content, individually or in any combination.