US 2009/0264103 A1 · Personalized multimedia services using a mobile service platform

Abstract

A method for providing multimedia data from at least one controllable multimedia source to a mobile device includes providing a request path from the mobile device to a mobile service platform, receiving a request from the mobile device, obtaining a device profile from the mobile device, authenticating the identity of a user of the mobile device, and determining a user profile in response to the user identity. The method further includes authorizing control and access to the at least one multimedia source, providing a control channel from the mobile service platform to at least one multimedia server, providing multimedia data delivery information to the at least one multimedia server, and providing multimedia data to the mobile device in response to the request via the at least one multimedia server.

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Dependent claims

A system for providing multimedia data to a mobile device, the system comprising:

a mobile service platform comprising:
an authentication processor for authenticating user requests from the mobile device over a request path;
and
a multimedia source controller for receiving the authenticated user requests for controlling at least one multimedia source;
at least one multimedia server for receiving control commands via a control channel from said mobile service platform, the control commands being for controlling delivery of multimedia data to the mobile device over a wireless path separate from the request path;
and
at least one transcoder for receiving multimedia data from the at least one multimedia source and coupled to the at least one multimedia server.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Personalized multimedia services using a mobile service platform

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Personalized multimedia services using a mobile service platform

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Abstract

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