Systems and methods for remote web query and image selection exchange to video screen

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-8959565-B2
Application number	US-201313790013-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 8, 2013
Priority date	Sep 22, 2009
Publication date	Feb 17, 2015
Grant date	Feb 17, 2015

Abstract

Systems and methods are disclosed for receiving a request to display, on an external display device, a media file, where the request comprises a first logical address for accessing the media file at a first storage location, transmitting to a set-top box, a second logical address for accessing a copy of the media file at a second storage location, where the second logical address differs from the first logical address, and where the second storage location differs from the first storage location. Other embodiments are disclosed.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method, comprising:
receiving, by an application server comprising a processor, from a handheld communications device a first network address for accessing a media file;
accessing, by the application server, the media file according to the first network address;
resizing, by the application server, the media file to generate an updated media file;
storing, by the application server, the updated media file in a storage device; and
transmitting, by t…

Assignees

• At & T Ip I Lp

Inventors

• Morris Nadia
• Ng Virginia S
• Hill Nicholas Peter

Classifications

• H04N21/4126 Primary

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• H04L65/4076

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• H04L65/1063

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• H04L65/611

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• H04N21/64

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