Union remote controller, union remote controller information providing system and method for using the same

• US 20020120718A1
• Filed: 12/21/2001
• Published: 08/29/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 12/21/2000
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Lee, Jae Kyung
• Granted Patent: US 7,376,590 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/219
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0601 Electronic shopping [e-shopping]
• CPC Class Codes: G08C 19/28 using pulse code
• CPC Class Codes: H03J 1/0025 in a remote control unit remote control tuning in general H03J9/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2223 being a public access point, e.g. for downloading to or uploading from clients arrangements specially adapted to plural spots in a confined site in broadcast systems H04H20/63
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42204 User interfaces specially adapted for controlling a client device through a remote control device; Remote control devices therefor constructive details of casings for the remote control device H01H9/0235; user interfaces for controlling a tuning device of a television receiver through a remote control H03J9/00; remote control of peripheral devices connected to a television receiver through the remote control device of the television receiver H04B1/205
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42208 Display device provided on the remote control
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4222 Remote control device emulator integrated into a non-television apparatus, e.g. a PDA, media center or smart toy remote control device for a television receiver integrated into a mobile phone H04M1/72415
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42221 Transmission circuitry, e.g. infrared [IR] or radio frequency [RF]
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/435 Processing of additional data, e.g. decrypting of additional data, reconstructing software from modules extracted from the transport stream
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47 End-user applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6125 involving transmission via Internet transmission by internet of broadcast information H04H60/82
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6175 involving transmission via Internet broadcast-related systems characterised by the transmission system being the Internet H04H60/82
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6581 Reference data, e.g. a movie identifier for ordering a movie or a product identifier in a home shopping application
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8186 specially adapted to be executed by a peripheral of the client device, e.g. by a reprogrammable remote control

Abstract

A method of a union remote controller and a union remote controller information providing system and a method for operating the same is disclosed, in which various electronic apparatuses are controlled just by downloading simple remote controller information regardless of whether an electronic apparatus is on the market, kinds, manufacture companies, and model names. The union remote controller includes a data base for storing remote controller information correspondingly to manufacture companies and models; and a server for operating an Internet site which obtains remote controller information provided from manufacture companies of each electronic apparatus, stores them in a data base, and provides remote controller information according to a user'"'"'s request. Since it is possible to control multiple electronic apparatuses with one remote controller, and it is also possible to control products which will be on the market later by simply downloading data, there is no temporal and economical inconvenience for a user to maintain a number of remote controllers.

Claims

1. A union remote controller information providing system comprising:

a data base for storing remote controller information correspondingly to manufacture companies and models; and

a server for operating an Internet site which unifies various remote controller information provided from each manufacture company of electronic apparatuses, stores them in the data base, and provides remote controller information according to a user'"'"'s request.

2. A union remote controller comprising:

a communication means connected to an electronic apparatus capable of performing data communication with an Internet site by a radio or wire mode and for receiving remote controller information from the electronic apparatus;

a storage means for storing the remote controller information transmitted through the communication means; and

a display means for displaying a selection screen for an electronic apparatus and a functional screen of a remote controller,

wherein the union remote controller transmits an infrared ray signal corresponding to a key input by a user.

3. The union remote controller as claimed in claim 2, the electronic apparatus capable of performing data communication is a TV having an Internet function.

4. The union remote controller as claimed in claim 2, wherein the electronic apparatus capable of performing data communication is a PC.

5. A union remote controller comprising:

a communication means capable of performing data communication with an Internet site which provides remote controller information;

a storage means for storing remote controller information transmitted through the communication means; and

a display means for displaying an Internet site screen accessed through the communication means, a selection screen for an electronic apparatus, and a functional screen of a remote controller,

wherein the union remote controller transmits an infrared ray signal corresponding to a key input by a user.

6. A union remote controller of a mobile communication terminal that is capable of performing data communication through Internet, comprising:

a controlling unit for selectively controlling a remote controlling function and a telephone function;

an infrared ray transmitting means for transmitting an infrared ray signal according to the remote controller function; and

a display means for displaying an image relating to a telephone function or a remote controller function.

7. A method for operating a union remote controller information providing system which stores remote controller information for a remote controller function corresponding to each electronic apparatus in a data base, the method comprising the steps of:

obtaining remote controller information of a corresponding electronic apparatus from the data base in case that a request of remote controller information for remotely controlling a special electronic apparatus as a user accesses a site; and

transmitting the obtained remote controller information to a corresponding user'"'"'s terminal.

8. The method as claimed in claim 7, wherein the user'"'"'s request for remote controller information is performed in such a manner that the site accessed by the user provides remote controller information lists correspondingly to manufacture companies and models of a corresponding electronic apparatus and the user selects special information among the lists.

9. The method as claimed in claim 7, wherein the user'"'"'s request for remote controller information is performed in such a manner that the user accesses the site and inputs a model name of a corresponding electronic apparatus.

10. The method as claimed in claim 7, wherein the remote controller information includes remote controller code information and remote controller function information.

11. The method as claimed in claim 7, wherein the remote controller function information is either text information or graphic information for displaying various functional keys on a screen.

12. The method as claimed in claim 7, wherein storage information of the data base further includes list information of electronic apparatuses corresponding to the remote controller information.