Method and system for searching for object in network

• US 10,523,804 B2
• Filed: 12/04/2014
• Issued: 12/31/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 09/16/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Hong, Jung-kih, Choi, Min-suk, Kang, Seong-hoon, Choi, Yoon-suk
• Primary Examiner(s): Belousov, Andrey
• Application Number:
  US14/560,739
• Publication Number:
  US 20150095797A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,853 Days
• Field of Search: 715733, 715738, 715740
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04817 using icons graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0486 Drag-and-drop
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/51 Discovery or management thereof, e.g. service location protocol [SLP] or web services
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72403 with means for local support of applications that increase the functionality
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/21 for social networking applications

Abstract

A method and a device for providing content to at least one external device are provided. The method includes communicating with the at least one external device, displaying a plurality of contents stored in the device on a screen of the device, determining whether the at least one external device is executing an application corresponding to an application being executed in the device, and providing at least one of the displayed plurality of contents to the at least one external device, based on the determination.

Claims

1. An electronic device comprising:

a memory storing instructions for a program that provides a user interface for browsing images corresponding to image files; and

a processor configured to execute the instructions to at least;

control to display, on a display of the electronic device, one or more images on the user interface;

based on user input received via the display of the electronic device, control to select an image from among the displayed one or more images;

control to search for one or more external electronic devices of which a program corresponding to the program stored in the electronic device is activated;

based on a search result, control to establish communication, through a first communication method, with a first external electronic device of which the program is activated in the first external electronic device;

based on the search result, control to establish communication, through a second communication method which is different from the first communication method, with a second external electronic device of which the program is activated in the second external electronic device;

control to display, on the display of the electronic device, based on information received from the first and second external electronic devices via the established communications with the first and second external electronic devices, a first representation of the first external electronic device and a second representation of the second external electronic device, while displaying the selected image on the user interface;

based on user input received via the display of the electronic device, control to select an external electronic device from between the first external electronic device and the second external electronic device; and

control to transmit an image file corresponding to the selected image to the selected external electronic device.

2. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the selected image is displayed to have a size larger than a size of the first or second representation.

3. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the respective first and second representations each includes text for identifying the respective external electronic device.

4. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the first and second representations are displayed side by side.

5. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the display comprises a touchscreen display.

6. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the first and second representations comprise respective first and second icons representing the first and second external electronic devices.

7. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein one or the other of the first and second communication methods is WiFi communication.

8. A method performed by an electronic device storing instructions for a program that provides a user interface for browsing images corresponding to image files, the method comprising:

displaying, on a display of the electronic device, one or more images on the user interface;

based on user input received via the display of the electronic device, selecting an image from among the displayed one or more images;

searching for one or more external electronic devices of which a program corresponding to the program stored in the electronic device is activated;

based on a search result, establishing communication, through a first communication method, with a first external electronic device of which the program is activated in the first external electronic device;

based on the search result, establishing communication, through a second communication method which is different from the first communication method, with a second external electronic device of which the program is activated in the second external electronic device;

displaying, on a display of the electronic device, based on information received from the first and second external electronic devices via the established communications with the first and second external electronic devices, a first representation of the first external electronic device and a second representation of the second external electronic device, while displaying the selected image on the user interface;

based on user input received via the display of the electronic device, selecting an external electronic device from between the first external electronic device and the second external electronic device; and

transmitting an image file corresponding to the selected image to the selected external electronic device.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the selected image is displayed to have a size larger than a size of the first or second representation.

10. The method of claim 8, wherein the respective first and second representations each includes text for identifying the respective external electronic device.

11. The method of claim 8, wherein the first and second representations are displayed side by side.

12. The method of claim 8, wherein the first and second representations comprise respective first and second icons representing the first and second external electronic devices.

13. The method of claim 8, wherein one or the other of the first and second communication methods is WiFi communication.

14. A non-transitory computer-readable medium having stored thereon instructions for a program that provides a user interface for browsing images corresponding to image files, the program, when executed by a processor of an electronic device, causing the electronic device to perform at least:

displaying, on a display of the electronic device, one or more images on the user interface;

based on user input received via the display of the electronic device, selecting an image from among the displayed one or more images;

searching for one or more external electronic devices of which a program corresponding to the program stored in the electronic device is activated;

based on a search result, establishing communication, through a first communication method, with a first external electronic device of which the program is activated in the first external electronic device;

based on the search result, establishing communication, through a second communication method which is different from the first communication method, with a second external electronic device of which the program is activated in the second external electronic device;

displaying, on the display of the electronic device, based on information received from the first and second external electronic devices via the established communications with the first and second external electronic devices, a first representation of the first external electronic device and a second representation of the second external electronic device, while displaying the selected image on the user interface;

based on user input received via the display of the electronic device, selecting an external electronic device from between the first external electronic device and the second external electronic device; and

transmitting an image file corresponding to the selected image to the selected external electronic device.

15. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 14, wherein the selected image is displayed to have a size larger than a size of the first or second representation.

16. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 14, wherein the respective first and second representations each includes text for identifying the respective external electronic device.

17. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 14, wherein the first and second representations are displayed side by side.

18. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 14, wherein the first and second representations comprise respective first and second icons representing the first and second external electronic devices.

19. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 14, wherein one or the other of the first and second communication methods is WiFi communication.