Providing A Representation For A Device Connected To A Display Device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2016180806-A1
Application number	US-201514755753-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Jun 30, 2015
Priority date	Dec 23, 2014
Publication date	Jun 23, 2016
Grant date	—

Abstract

Disclosed herein are system, apparatus, article of manufacture, method, and/or computer program product embodiments for providing a representation to a connected device. An embodiment operates by recognizing a new device connected to a display device, collecting device fingerprint information from the new device, and requesting a device class representation information determined based on the device fingerprint information. Another embodiment operates by receiving device fingerprint information from a display device via a network connection, wherein the device fingerprint information is collected from a device connected to a display device, and providing device class representation information to the display device via the network connection, when the device class representation information corresponding to the device fingerprint information is available.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A computer implemented method, comprising:
recognizing, by at least one processor, a new device connected to a display device; collecting, by the at least one processor, device fingerprint information from the new device; and requesting, by the at least one processor, device class representation information determined based on the device fingerprint information.

2 . The computer implemented method of claim 1 , further comprising:
receiving, by the at least one processor, the device class representation information from a server via a network connection, the device class representation information including a suggested device class name associated with the new device; visually presenting, by the at least one processor, the device class representation information on a display; and assigning, by the at least one processor, the suggested device class name to the new device, in response to a device class representation acceptance signal.

3 . The computer implemented method of claim 1 , further comprising:
receiving, by the at least one processor, the device class representation information including a suggested device class name from a server via a network connection; assigning, by the at least one processor, a user selected device class name to the new device, in response to receiving a device class name override signal; and sending, by the at least one processor, the user selected device class name to the server via the network connection.

4 . The computer implemented method of claim 1 , further comprising:
receiving, by the at least one processor, an indication from a server indicating that the device class representation information is not available for the new device; providing, by the at least one processor, a prompt for selecting a device class name, in response to the indication; and receiving, by the at least one processor, a device class representation selection signal indicating a user selection of the new device class name for the new device.

5 . The computer implemented method of claim 4 , further comprising:
assigning, by the at least one processor, the user selected device class name for the new device, in response to the device class representation selection signal; and sending, by the at least one processor, device class representation information including the user selected device class name to the server via the network connection.

6 . The computer implemented method of claim 1 , further comprising:
receiving, by the at least one processor, the device class representation information from a server via the network connection, wherein the device class representation information includes a suggested device class name and an associated reliability indicia; and presenting, by the at least one processor, the suggested device class name and the associated reliability indicia on a display.

7 . A system, comprising:
a memory; and at least one processor coupled to the memory and configured to:
recognize a new device connected to the display device,
collect device fingerprint information from the new device connected to the display device, and
request device class representation information corresponding to the device fingerprint information from a server, wherein the request includes the device fingerprint information transmitted to the server via a network connection.

8 . The display device of claim 7 , the at least one processor further configured to:
receive device class representation information including a suggested device class name from the server via the network connection, and assign the suggested device class name to the new device, in response to receiving a class representation acceptance signal.

9 . The display device of claim 7 , the at least one processor further configured to:
receive device class representation information including a suggested device class name from the server via the network connection, assign a user selected device class name to the new device, in response to receiving a new device class representation override signal, and upload the user selected device class name to the server via the network connection.

10 . The display device of claim 7 , the at least one processor further configured to:
receive an indication from the server via the network indicating that the device class representation information is not available, supply a prompt for selecting a device class name by a user, in response to the indication, and receive a device class representation selection signal indicating a user selection of the device class name for the new device.

11 . The display device of claim 10 , the at least one processor further configured to:
assign the user selected device class name to the new device, in response to the device class representation selection signal, and send, by the at least one processor, device class representation information including the user selected device class name to the server via the network connection.

12 . The display device of claim 7 , the at least one processor further configured to:
receive the device class representation information from the server via the network connection, wherein the device class representation information includes a suggested device class name and an associated reliability indicia, and display the suggested device class name and the associated reliability indicia on a display.

13 . The display device of claim 12 , wherein the reliability indicia is a normalized value determined based on one or more reliability factors.

14 . The display device of claim 7 , wherein to recognize, the at least one processor is configured to:
scan one or more ports of the display device during a transition from a powered off state to a powered on state.

15 . The display device of claim 7 , wherein the device fingerprint information includes at least one of: a device vendor identification, device product identification, on screen display information, or any combination thereof.

16 . The display device of claim 7 , wherein the display device is a television and the device fingerprint information is collected from the new device via a High-Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI).

17 . A tangible computer-readable device having instructions stored thereon that, when executed by at least one computing device, causes the at least one computing device to perform operations comprising:
receiving device fingerprint information from a display device via a network connection, wherein the device fingerprint information is collected from a device connected to a display device, and providing device class representation information to the display device via the network connection, when the device class representation information corresponding to the device fingerprint information is available.

18 . The computer-readable device of claim 17 , the operations further comprising:
generating reliability indicia between a device class name and corresponding device fingerprint information based on one or more reliability factors, wherein the one or more reliability factors include at least one of: a submission factor, a consistency factor, a uniqueness factor, or any combination thereof.

19 . The computer-readable device of claim 17 , the operations further comprising:
receiving a device class name and corresponding device fingerprint information from a different display device, wherein the device class name is selected by a user of the different display device; and storing t

Assignees

• Roku Inc

Inventors

• Sharp David
• Bush Jeff
• Funk Jim

Classifications

• G09G2370/02

  Networking aspects · CPC title

• G09G5/006 Primary

  Details of the interface to the display terminal (specific for a display terminal using a CRT G09G1/167; using a flat panel G09G3/2096; circuits for interfacing with colour displays G09G5/04) · CPC title

• G09G2370/12

  Use of DVI or HDMI protocol in interfaces along the display data pipeline · CPC title

• H04N21/25825

  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 title

• H04N21/4532

  involving end-user characteristics, e.g. viewer profile, preferences (monitoring of user activities for profile generation for accessing a video database G06F16/739; user profiles in network data switching protocols H04L67/306; processing of user preferences or user profiles in wireless networks H04W8/18) · CPC title