Patent Application
20170034235
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to an audio video data transmission method, and more particularly, to a real-time audio video data transmission method and associated electronic device and communication system.
2. Description of the Prior Art
The interface connector of a software development kit (SDK), which is arranged to produce webpages or transmit real-time audio video data, is usually compiled in C language for facilitating connection with other programs. Webpage developers still need to spend time to learn the syntax of the SDK which results in an inconvenient experience for a user.
At the same time, if webpage developers want to integrate the functions of real-time audio video data transmission, they may encounter problems with data transmission since data of webpages is downloaded batch by batch.
One of the objectives of the present invention is therefore to provide a real-time audio video data transmission method and an associated electronic device and communication system to solve the problems described above.
According to an embodiment of the present invention, an electronic device comprises a display unit, a network element and a processing unit, wherein the processing unit is arranged to connect to a first server via the network element for downloading a webpage displayed on the display unit, wherein when a specific icon in the webpage is selected, the processing unit receives an authentic information from the first server, and transmits/receives audio video data with the authentic information to/from a second server.
According to another embodiment of the present invention, a communication system comprises a first server, a second server and an electronic device, wherein the electronic device is arranged to connect to the first server for downloading a webpage displayed on a display unit of the electronic device, wherein when a specific icon in the webpage is selected, the electronic device receives an authentic information from the first server, and transmits/receives audio video data with the authentic information to/from the second server.
According to yet another embodiment of the present invention, an audio video data transmission method comprises: connecting to a first server for downloading a webpage displayed on a display unit; when a specific icon in the webpage is selected, receiving an authentic information from the first server; and transmitting/receiving audio video data with the authentic information to/from the second server.
These and other objectives of the present invention will no doubt become obvious to those of ordinary skill in the art after reading the following detailed description of the preferred embodiment that is illustrated in the various figures and drawings.
Certain terms are used throughout the description and following claims to refer to particular components. As one skilled in the art will appreciate, manufacturers may refer to a component by different names. This document does not intend to distinguish between components that differ in name but not function. In the following description and in the claims, the terms “include” and “comprise” are used in an open-ended fashion, and thus should not be interpreted as a close-ended term such as “consist of”. Also, the term “couple” is intended to mean either an indirect or direct electrical connection. Accordingly, if one device is coupled to another device, that connection may be through a direct electrical connection, or through an indirect electrical connection via other devices and connections.
In this embodiment, the SDK comprises a part of a browser or an application and a plurality of interface connector icons related to online meetings or lectures such as create account, login, paying mechanism, video upload/download. The webpage developers can select these interface connector icons directly from the HTML content of the display unit 108 when editing a webpage to build desirable functions. Because the SDK utilizes HTML or Javascript, it is unnecessary for webpage developers to spend too much time learning the syntax of the SDK; instead, they can focus on developing the content of the webpage.
In the operation of the communication system 200, the user 202 connects to the webpage server 210 for downloading the webpage content of the online meeting or lecture. Next, the user 202 can select the icon of online registration, logging in, paying or performing meeting/lecture for starting the associated operation. In this embodiment, because the operation of online registration, logging in and paying is well-known to persons skilled in the art, the detailed description is omitted. The following explanation only details the transmission of audio video data.
When the user selects the icons which will perform audio video transmission such as online meeting/lecture, the webpage 210 transmits an authentic information to the user 202, wherein the authentic information comprises a group identified number of the online meeting or the online lecture, and the group identified number may be a conference/class room number, a lecture number, etc. After receiving the authentic information, the application of the user 202 actively transfers the authentic information to the server 220 to perform an arrangement of the audio video data transmission. After receiving the authentic information sent from the user 202, the server 220 determines what audio video transmission should be performed or which user is chosen to perform the audio video transmission according to the group identified number carried by the authentic information. More specifically, after the server 220 confirms the content of the authentic information, the audio video data can be transmitted to the user 202 for watching uni-directionally, or make the user 202 perform the real-time audio video data transmission with the user 204 via the server 220 (i.e. real-time video call). In addition, the transmission of the audio video data can employ the format of real-time transport protocol, Voice over IP or any other suitable multimedia transmission protocol.
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In an embodiment, when the number in the online conference/class room built by the server 202 has reached its maximum, the server 220 can automatically transfer the user 202 to another server to perform the arrangement of the audio video data transmission, or the server 220 can actively transmit a new IP address to the user 202 so the user 202 can use the new IP address to connect to another server, and transmits the authentic information obtained from the webpage server 210 to the other server for performing the arrangement of audio video data transmission, wherein the function of the other server is substantially equal to the function of the server 220.
Step 300: start.
Step 302: connect to a first server for downloading a webpage and display the webpage on a display unit.
Step 304: receive an authentic information from the first server when a specific icon in the webpage is selected.
Step 306: perform the audio video data transmission with the authentic information and a second server.
Briefly summarized, because the employed SDK in the electronic device of the present invention adopts HTML or Javascript, it is not necessary for the webpage developers to spend much time learning the syntax of the SDK; instead, they can focus on the development of the content of the webpage. In addition, in the communication system of the present invention, the user can connect to a desired online conference/class room via a webpage server and another specified server for providing audio video transmission, with improved quality when watching the real-time audio video data.
Those skilled in the art will readily observe that numerous modifications and alterations of the device and method may be made while retaining the teachings of the invention. Accordingly, the above disclosure should be construed as limited only by the metes and bounds of the appended claims.
