User terminal, rule executing method thereof, server apparatus and rule executing system

• US 10,057,381 B2
• Filed: 04/19/2017
• Issued: 08/21/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 05/27/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Choi, Hyung-tak, Kim, Yu-na, Kwon, O-hoon
• Primary Examiner(s): Gilles, Jude Jean
• Application Number:
  US15/491,212
• Publication Number:
  US 20170223145A1
• Time in Patent Office: 489 Days
• Field of Search: 709203, 709217, 709223
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04847 Interaction techniques to control parameter settings, e.g. interaction with sliders or dials
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/22 comprising specially adapted graphical user interfaces [GUI]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/01 Protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/303 Terminal profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72454 according to context-related or environment-related conditions
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72457 according to geographic location

Abstract

A user terminal includes an inputter which receives a user command, a display, a communicator configured to communicate with an external server, and a controller configured to create a first rule in which the user terminal performs a first action when a first condition is met in another first user terminal, control the communicator to transmit the created first rule to the external server, and perform the first action according to an event command when the event command to perform the first action is received from the external server upon the first condition being met in the first user terminal.

Claims

1. A user terminal, comprising:

a display; and

a controller configured to;

provide a user interface (UI) for generating a rule including a condition executable in a first user terminal and an action executed in the user terminal based on the condition on the display, and

generate the rule according to a user command inputted through the UI,

wherein the UI includes a first UI for selecting the first user terminal, a second UI for setting the condition, and a third UI for setting the action executed based on the condition.

2. The user terminal of claim 1, wherein the controller is further configured to:

in response to the first user terminal being selected in the first UI, provide the second UI, and

in response to the condition being set in the second UI, provide the third UI.

3. The user terminal of claim 1, further comprising a communicator,

wherein the controller is further configured to:

control the communicator to transmit the generated rule to an external server, and

in response to a command based on the rule being received from the external server as the condition set in the second UI is executed in the first user terminal selected in the first UI and, execute the action set in the third UI according to the command.

4. The user terminal of claim 1, further comprising a communicator,

wherein the controller is further configured to provide the UI based on profile information of the first user terminal received from an external server through the communicator, and

wherein the profile information includes at least one from among information regarding the first user terminal and information regarding a condition executable in the first user terminal and an action executable in the user terminal.

5. The user terminal of claim 1, wherein the UI further comprises a fourth UI for selecting a second user terminal to execute the action, and

wherein in response to the condition set in the second UI being executed in the first user terminal selected in the first UI, the second user terminal selected in the fourth UI generates a rule for executing an action set in the third UI.

6. The user terminal of claim 5, wherein the controller is further configured to:

in response to the first user terminal being selected in the first UI, provide the second UI,

in response to the condition being set in the second UI, provide the third UI, and

in response to the action being set in the third UI, provide the fourth UI.

7. The user terminal of claim 1, wherein the controller is further configured to generate the rule by automatically applying a recommended item with respect to at least one from among the first UI, the second UI and the third UI.

8. A rule generating method of a user terminal, comprising:

displaying a UI for generating including a condition executable in a first user terminal and an action executed in the user terminal based on the condition; and

generating the rule according to a user command inputted through the UI,

wherein the UI includes a first UI for selecting the first user terminal, a second UI for setting the condition and a third UI for setting the action executed based on the condition.

9. The rule generating method of claim 8, wherein the displaying comprises, in response to the first user terminal being selected in the first UI, providing the second UI, and in response to the condition being set in the second UI, providing the third UI.

10. The rule generating method of claim 8, further comprising:

transmitting the generated rule to an external server; and

in response to a command based on the rule being received from the external server as the condition set in the second UI is executed in the first user terminal selected in the first UI, executing the action set in the third UI according to the command.

11. The rule generating method of claim 8, wherein the displaying comprises providing the UI based on profile information of the first user terminal received from an external server, and

wherein the profile information includes at least one from among information regarding the first user terminal and information regarding a condition executable in the user terminal and an action executable in the user terminal.

12. The rule generating method of claim 8, wherein the UI further comprises a fourth UI for selecting a second user terminal to execute the action, and

wherein in response to the condition set in the second UI being executed in the first user terminal selected in the first UI, the second user terminal selected in the fourth UI selects a rule for executing an action set in the third UI.

13. The rule generating method of claim 12, wherein the displaying comprises, in response to the first user terminal being selected in the first UI, providing the second UI, in response to the condition being set in the second UI, providing the third UI, and in response to the action being set in the third UI, provide the fourth UI.

14. The rule generating method of claim 8, wherein the generating comprises generating the rule by automatically applying a recommended item with respect to at least one from among the first UI, the second UI and the third UI.