Sony patents system to route device data to specific apps
Sony describes a control unit that acts as a middleman between hardware devices and software applications. It uses stored information to figure out which app needs specific data and sends the data only to those destinations.
In the filing’s own words
The present disclosure relates to an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a recording medium that enable an apparatus interposed between a device and an application apparatus to appropriately provide data from the device to the application apparatus. A DS includes: a control unit that acquires, for a plurality of App apparatuses, association information between a device that outputs data and each App apparatus that performs predetermined data processing using the data, determines a destination of the data acquired from one or more of the devices, based on the acquired association information, and controls transmission of the data to one or more of the App apparatuses determined as the destination. The technology of the present disclosure can be applied to, for example, apparatuses that perform data communication in accordance with the NICE standard.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. An information processing apparatus comprising: a control unit that acquires, for a plurality of application apparatuses, association information between a device that outputs data and each of the application apparatuses that performs predetermined data processing using the data, determines a destination of the data acquired from one or more of the devices, based on the acquired association information, and controls transmission of the data to one or more of the application apparatuses determined as the destination.
Facts
- Company
- Sony (SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION)
- Official title
- INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM
- Publication number
- US20260322857A1
- Application number
- 19113658
- Filed
- Sep 11, 2023
- Published
- Oct 15, 2026
- Inventors
- 2
- Claims
- 28
Classified under
H04L 63/20 Electricity & electronicsH04L 63/101 Electricity & electronicsMore from Sony in AI & software
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