Multimedia contents moving method and system

• US 20060190559A1
• Filed: 12/21/2005
• Published: 08/24/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 02/17/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Lim, Hun
• Application Number:
  US11/312,384
• Publication Number:
  US 20060190559A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/217
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/2805 Home Audio Video Interoperability [HAVI] networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/2812 describing content present in a home automation network, e.g. audio video content retrieval from the Internet G06F16/95
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/282 based on user interaction within the home receiver circuitry for displaying additional information being controlled by a remote control apparatus H04N21/42204
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2012/2849 Audio/video appliances
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1094 Inter-user-equipment sessions transfer or sharing
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1101 Session protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/613 for the control of the source by the destination control signals issued by the client directed to the server or network components specially adapted for selective content distribution H04N21/637
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/756 adapting media to device capabilities

Abstract

Multimedia contents moving method and system. In a multimedia system including a media server for transmitting media data, at least one multimedia device for playing the media data and at least one controller for controlling the multimedia device, the method includes the steps of: sending a copy command to a first multimedia device using the controller; sending the copy command to the media server from the first multimedia device; sending a play-stop command to the first multimedia device from the multimedia server; storing a current play location of the multimedia data by the media server; sending a paste command from the controller to a second multimedia device so as for the second multimedia device to play the later part of the multimedia data which was being played by the first multimedia device, and sending the paste command from the second multimedia device to the media server; and transmitting the media data from the media server to the second multimedia device. A user can continuously use the multimedia contents using different kinds of multimedia devices by simply operating a controller while moving around, that is, moving from a place to a different place, in a home network system, even in a case where the user moves from a place to a different place.

Claims

1. A method of moving multimedia contents in a multimedia system which includes a media server that transmits media data, at least one multimedia device that plays the media data and at least one controller that controls the at least one multimedia device, the method comprising:

sending a copy command to a first multimedia device using a first controller;

sending the copy command to the media server from the first multimedia device;

sending a play-stop command to the first multimedia device from the media server;

storing a current play location of the media data by the media server;

sending a paste command from the first controller to a second multimedia device so as to enable the second multimedia device to play a later part of the multimedia data which was being played by the first multimedia device, and sending the paste command from the second multimedia device to the media server; and

transmitting the media data from the media server to the second multimedia device.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the first multimedia device sends its own identification symbol to the media server after sending the copy command to the media server.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the second multimedia device in the multimedia system sends its own identification symbol to the media server after sending the paste command to the media server.

4. The method according to claim 1, further comprising checking and confirming that the first multimedia device stopped playing the media data in response to the play-stop command, and updating status information of the first multimedia device after the first multimedia device stopped playing the media data.

5. The method according to claim 1, further comprising converting the media data so as to be played in the second multimedia device, wherein the converting is performed by the media server.

6. The method according to claim 5, wherein converting the media data comprises:

converting a format of the media data to be adaptive to the second multimedia device; and

converting a resolution of the media data to be adaptive to the second multimedia device.

7. The method according to claim 1, wherein in sending the copy command, the controller checks whether the media server executed the copy command, and then displays a message representing a copy command execution status.

8. The method according to claim 1, wherein in sending the paste command to the media server, the controller checks whether the media server executed the paste command, and displays a message representing a paste command execution status.

9. The method according to claim 1, wherein the multimedia system includes two or more controllers provided with respective identification symbols, and the media server manages commands sent by the two or more controllers and command executions for respective controllers separately for each identification symbol.

10. The method according to claim 1, wherein sending the copy command comprises:

checking whether a user is near the first multimedia device using a sensor attached to the first multimedia device; and

instructing the first controller to send the copy command, wherein the instructing the first controller to send the copy command is performed by the sensor attached to the first multimedia device.

11. The method according to claim 1, wherein sending the paste command comprises:

checking whether a user is near the second multimedia device using a sensor attached to the second multimedia device;

instructing the first controller to send the paste command wherein the instructing the first controller to send the paste command is performed by the sensor attached to the second multimedia device.

12. The method according to claim 1, further comprising sending another copy command to one of the at least one multimedia device from a second controller.

13. A multimedia contents moving system, comprising:

a media server which transmits multimedia contents;

at least one multimedia device which plays the multimedia contents; and

at least one controller which controls the at least one multimedia device,

wherein a first controller sends a copy command and a paste command to a first multimedia device out of the at least one multimedia device, the first multimedia device receives the copy command from the first controller, sends the copy command to the media server and stops playing the multimedia contents therein after receiving a play-stop command from the media server, a second multimedia device out of the at least one multimedia device receives the paste command from the first controller, sends the paste command to the media server, receives media data from the media server and plays the media data transmitted from the media server, and the media server sends the play-stop command to the first multimedia device and transmits the media data to the second multimedia device.

14. The system according to claim 13, wherein the first controller includes a displaying part which displays a message representing either copy command execution status or phase command execution status.

15. The system according to claim 13, wherein the system includes two or more controllers.

16. The system according to claim 13, wherein the media server is incorporated into the first controller.

17. The system according to claim 13, wherein the first multimedia device has a sensor to check whether a user is near the first multimedia device and instruct the first controller to send the copy command.

18. The system according to claim 13, wherein the second multimedia device has a sensor to check whether a user is near the second multimedia device and instruct the first controller to send the paste command.

19. The system according to claim 13, further comprising a second controller which sends a copy command to one of the at least one multimedia device.