METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING BOOKMARK INFORMATION FOR CONTENT STORED IN A NETWORKED MEDIA SERVER

• US 20070073746A1
• Filed: 11/16/2006
• Published: 03/29/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 05/03/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Kim, Chang, Ahn, Sung
• Granted Patent: US 8,028,037 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9562 Bookmark management
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/105 of operating discs
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/32 on separate auxiliary tracks of the same or an auxiliary record carrier
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/2803 Home automation 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 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/51 Discovery or management thereof, e.g. service location protocol [SLP] or web services
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99931 Database or file accessing
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99933 Query processing, i.e. searching

Abstract

A method and apparatus for managing bookmark information of a media server through a network based on the UPnP AV standard is disclosed. If a request for bookmarking a content item is made, a bookmark item is created and the created bookmark item is linked to the content item by adding the ID of the created bookmark item to the property information of the content item and recording the ID of the content item to be bookmarked in the created bookmark item.

Claims

1-18. -18. (canceled)

19. A method for managing a bookmark item stored in a device, the method comprising:

destroying a content item stored in the device containing bookmark reference information; and

removing a bookmark item stored in the device associated with the content item by the bookmark reference information.

20. The method of claim 19, further comprising:

receiving a request for deleting the bookmark item stored in the device; and

performing the destroying and removing steps according to the request.

21. The method of claim 19, wherein the bookmark item comprises:

an identification of a bookmarked content item;

a unique device number (UDN) for storing an identification of at least one of a Rendering Control Service (RCS) and an AVTransport service (AVTS) for presenting the content item; and

a list of state variables for storing state variables of the at least one of the RCS and AVTS.

22. The method of claim 21, wherein the bookmark item further comprises:

a bookmark item identification for uniquely identifying a bookmark item;

a title written in a user-readable format; and

bookmark object class.

23. The method of claim 22, wherein the bookmark object class is defined as object.item.bookmarkitem.

24. The method of claim 19, wherein the bookmark reference information is an identification of a bookmark item included in property information of the content item.

25. A method for managing a bookmark item stored in a device, the method comprising:

destroying the bookmark item stored in the device; and

removing property information associated with the bookmark item from a content item stored in the device.

26. The method of claim 25, further comprising:

receiving a request for deleting the bookmark item stored in the device; and

performing the destroying and removing steps according to the request.

27. The method of claim 25, further comprising prior to the removing step, finding a content item stored in the device associated with property information included in the bookmark item.

28. The method of claim 27, wherein the property information included in the bookmark item an identification of the content item.

29. The method of claim 27, wherein the destroying, finding and removing steps are performed by a content directory service.

30. A method for managing a bookmark item stored in a device, the method comprising:

destroying a content item stored in the device;

finding a bookmark item stored in the device associated with property information of the content item; and

deleting the bookmark item.

31. A system for providing contents through a network, the system comprising:

a media server for storing content items including media data; and

a control application for requesting deletion of a content item stored in the media server, the content item including bookmark reference information;

wherein the media server, responsive to the request, destroys the content item and a bookmark item stored in the media server associated with the content item by the bookmark reference information.

32. The system of claim 31, wherein the bookmark item comprises;

an identification of a bookmarked content item;

a unique device number (UDN) of at least one of a Rendering Control Service (RCS) and an AVTransport service (AVTS) for presenting the content item; and

a list of state variables for storing state variables of the at least one of the RCS and AVTS.

33. The system of claim 32, wherein the bookmark item further comprises:

a title written in a user-readable format; and

a bookmark object class.

34. The system of claim 33, wherein the bookmark object class is defined as bookmark.item.bookmarkitem.

35. The system of claim 31, wherein the bookmark reference information is an identification of a bookmark item included in property information of the content item.

36. A system for providing contents through a network, the system comprising:

a media server for storing content items including media data; and

a control application for requesting deletion of a bookmark item stored in the media server;

wherein the media server, responsive to the request, destroys the bookmark item and removes property information associated with the bookmark item from a content item stored in the media server.

37. The system of claim 36, wherein the media server prior to the removing step, finds a content item stored in the device associated with property information included in the bookmark item.

38. The system of claim 37, wherein the property information included in the bookmark item includes an identification of the content item.

39. The system of claim 37, wherein the destroying, finding and removing operations are performed by a content directory service embedded in the media server.

40. A system for providing contents through a network, the system comprising:

a media server for storing content items including media data; and

a control application for requesting deletion of a content item stored in the media server;

wherein the media server, responsive to the request, destroys the content item, finds a bookmark item stored in the media server associated with property information of the content item, and deletes the bookmark item.

41. An apparatus for conducting bookmark-related operations, the apparatus comprising:

a media server for storing content items including media data, wherein responsive to a received deletion request for a content item containing bookmark reference information, the media server destroys the content item and a bookmark item associated with the content item by the bookmark reference information.

42. An apparatus for conducting bookmark-related operations, the apparatus comprising:

a control application for requesting a device to destroy a content item containing bookmark reference information and a bookmark item associated with the content item by the bookmark reference information.

43. An apparatus for conducting bookmark-related operations, the apparatus comprising:

a media server for storing content items including media data, wherein responsive to a received deletion request for a bookmark item stored in the media server, the media server destroys the bookmark item and removes property information associated with the bookmark item from a content item stored in the media server.

44. An apparatus for conducting bookmark-related operations, the apparatus comprising:

a control application for requesting a device to destroy a bookmark item stored in the device and remove property information associated with the bookmark item from a content item stored in the device.

45. An apparatus for conducting bookmark-related operations, the apparatus comprising:

a media server for storing content items including media data, wherein responsive to a received deletion request for a bookmark item stored in the media server, the media server destroys the bookmark item, finds a content item stored in the media server associated with property information included in the bookmark item, and removes property information associated with the bookmark item from the content item.

46. A system for conducting bookmark-related operations, the system comprising:

a media server for storing content items including media data; and

a control application for requesting the media server to destroy a bookmark item stored in the media server, find a content item stored in the media server associated with property information included in the bookmark item, and remove property information associated with the bookmark item from the content item.

47. An apparatus for conducting bookmark-related operations, the apparatus comprising:

a media server for storing content items including media data, wherein responsive to a received deletion request for a content item stored in the media server, the media server destroys the content item, finds a bookmark item stored in the media server associated with property information of the content item, and deletes the bookmark item.

48. An apparatus for conducting bookmark-related operations, the apparatus comprising:

a control application for requesting a device to destroy a content item stored in the device, find a bookmark item stored in the device associated with property information of the content item, and delete the bookmark item.