User terminal device and information providing method using the same

• US 10,554,260 B2
• Filed: 04/08/2013
• Issued: 02/04/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 04/08/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Moon, Bo-seok, Ko, Jae-woo, Jung, Hee-won
• Primary Examiner(s): Lu, Zhiyu
• Application Number:
  US13/858,421
• Publication Number:
  US 20130267174A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,493 Days
• Field of Search: 455 411, 455 412, 4551851, 4554561, 4554042
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/362 received from an external device or application, e.g. PDA, mobile phone or calendar application
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 5/72 for local intradevice communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/303 Terminal profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/5651 Reducing the amount or size of exchanged application data
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/023 using mutual or relative location information between multiple location based services [LBS] targets or of distance thresholds
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/21 for social networking applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/80 Services using short range communication, e.g. near-field communication [NFC], radio-frequency identification [RFID] or low energy communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/04 adapted for relaying to or from another terminal or user

Abstract

A method of receiving data from an external data source is provided. The method includes receiving device information of the target device provided by the target device through near field communication (NFC), and transmitting a subset of the data selected based on the device information to the target device.

Claims

1. A data providing method of a mobile terminal, the method comprising:

obtaining data comprising location information of areas;

identifying locations of the mobile terminal at which the mobile terminal obtains the data;

in response to receiving a user input to select a target device, identifying the target device to which the obtained data is to be transmitted;

identifying a time at which the mobile terminal identifies the target device;

identifying a subset of the obtained data based on the identified time and distances between the locations of the mobile terminal at which the mobile terminal obtains the data and locations of the areas; and

transmitting the identified subset of the obtained data to the target device.

2. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the obtaining the data comprises obtaining the data from an external data source by NFC.

3. The method as claimed in claim 2, wherein the obtaining the data comprises reading the data from an NFC tag of the external data source.

4. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the identifying the subset comprises:

parsing the data;

normalizing the parsed data; and

selecting the subset from among the normalized data based on device information.

5. The method as claimed in claim 4, wherein the data is raw data of an external data source.

6. The method as claimed in claim 1, further comprising:

displaying a message requesting confirmation of the subset; and

receiving an input indicating confirmation of the subset,

wherein the transmitting further comprises transmitting the subset to the target device in response to receiving the input indicating confirmation of the subset.

7. A mobile terminal comprising:

a communication unit; and

a controller configured to;

control the communication unit to obtain data comprising location information of areas,

determine locations of the mobile terminal at which the mobile terminal obtains the data,

identify a target device to which the obtained data is to be transmitted from the mobile terminal, in response to receiving a user input to select the target device,

identify a time at which the mobile terminal identifies the target device,

identify a subset of the obtained data based on the identified time and distances between the locations of the mobile terminal at which the mobile terminal obtains the data and locations of the areas, and

control the communication unit to transmit the identified subset of the obtained data to the target device.

8. The mobile terminal as claimed in claim 7, wherein the communication unit comprises an NFC module,

wherein the NFC module is configured to obtain the data from an external data source by NFC.

9. The mobile terminal as claimed in claim 8, wherein the NFC module is configured to read the data from an NFC tag of the external data source.

10. The mobile terminal as claimed in claim 7, wherein the controller is further configured to identify the subset by parsing the data, normalizing the parsed data, and selecting the subset from among the normalized data based on device information.

11. The mobile terminal as claimed in claim 10, wherein the data is raw data of an external data source.

12. The mobile terminal as claimed in claim 7, further comprising:

a display configured to display a message requesting confirmation of the subset; and

an interface configured to receive an input indicating confirmation of the subset,

wherein the controller is further configured to control the communication unit to transmit the subset to the target device in response to the interface receiving the input indicating confirmation of the subset.

13. A non-transitory computer-readable medium having embodied thereon a program for executing a method of controlling a mobile terminal to provide information from the mobile terminal to a target device, the method comprising:

obtaining data comprising a location information of areas;

determining locations of the mobile terminal at which the mobile terminal obtains the data;

in response to receiving a user input to select the target device, identifying the target device to which the obtained data is to be transmitted;

identifying a time at which the mobile terminal identifies the target device;

identifying a subset of the obtained data based on the identified time and distances between the locations of the mobile terminal at which the mobile terminal obtains the data and locations of the areas; and

transmitting the identified subset of the obtained data to the target device.