Method for remote controlling and watching of displaying apparatus and system employing the same

• US 20060036678A1
• Filed: 08/05/2005
• Published: 02/16/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 08/13/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Rhim, Eun-hee, Na, Kee-wook, Park, Jong-won
• Application Number:
  US11/197,350
• Publication Number:
  US 20060036678A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/203
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/51 Discovery or management thereof, e.g. service location protocol [SLP] or web services
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/75 Indicating network or usage conditions on the user display

Abstract

A system and a method for more efficiently supplying content and remotely controlling and watching multiple displaying apparatuses. The method includes supplying control information to control a displaying apparatus connected by a network, creating a remote control message including the supplied control information and transmit it to the displaying apparatus, receiving a state information message including state information of the displaying apparatus from the displaying apparatus, in response to the remote control message, and interpreting the state information message and supplying the state information.

Claims

1. A server comprising:

a remote control module that supplies control information to control a displaying apparatus coupled to the server by a network;

a server agent module that creates a remote control message containing the supplied control information;

a network interface module that transmits a specific message created by the server agent module to the displaying apparatus, and receives a state information message containing state information of the displaying apparatus from the displaying apparatus; and

a remote watch module that manages the state information included in the received state information message.

2. The server of claim 1, wherein the state information includes state information changed according to a control by the displaying apparatus based on the remote control message, or state information collected regularly by the displaying apparatus.

3. The server of claim 1, wherein the server agent module creates a state information request message requesting state information of the displaying apparatus regularly, or upon receiving a request from a user.

4. The server of claim 3, wherein the state information includes state information collected by the displaying apparatus according to the state information request message.

5. The server of claim 1, further comprising a user interface module through which to supply state information of the displaying apparatus to the user.

6. A displaying apparatus comprising:

a device interface module that transmits data to, and receive data from, a server coupled to the displaying apparatus by a network;

a state information collecting module that senses changes in state of the displaying apparatus, collects predetermined state information and outputs the collected state information;

a device agent module that interprets the received data when the received data includes a remote control message containing control information, and creates a state information message containing the collected state information; and

a control module that performs state control of the displaying apparatus according to the control information.

7. The apparatus of claim 6, wherein the state information collecting module collects and outputs state information periodically.

8. The apparatus of claim 7, wherein, when the received data is a state information request message requesting the state information, the state information collecting module collects and outputs the state information.

9. A method for remote controlling and watching, comprising:

supplying control information to control a displaying apparatus coupled to a network;

creating a remote control message including the supplied control information and transmitting the remote control message to the displaying apparatus;

receiving a state information message including state information of the displaying apparatus from the displaying apparatus, in response to the remote control message; and

interpreting the state information message and supplying the state information.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the state information includes state information changed according to a control by the displaying apparatus based on the remote control message, or state information collected regularly by the displaying apparatus.

11. The method of claim 9, further comprising transmitting a state information request message requesting state information of the displaying apparatus to the displaying apparatus regularly, or upon receiving a request from a user.

12. A method for remote controlling and watching, comprising:

receiving a predetermined message from a server coupled to a network;

controlling a state of a displaying apparatus when the message includes a remote control message to control a state of the displaying apparatus;

collecting state information of the displaying apparatus changed according to the control; and

creating a state information message including the state information and transmitting the state information message to the server.

13. The method of claim 12, further comprising collecting state information of the displaying apparatus when the received message is state information message to request state information of the displaying apparatus.

14. The method of claim 12, further comprising collecting the displaying apparatus'"'"' own state information regularly.