DIGITAL BROADCAST SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR A MOBILE TERMINAL

• US 20070082607A1
• Filed: 09/14/2006
• Published: 04/12/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 10/11/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Kim, Ho, Hong, Jung, Soh, Yoon
• Granted Patent: US 7,826,793 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/3.60
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/27 Arrangements for recording or accumulating broadcast information or broadcast-related information

Abstract

A mobile communication terminal is provided comprising a receiver for receiving broadcast content over a first broadcast channel; and a controller for controlling reproduction of the broadcast content on a display of the mobile terminal. In response to detecting a first event, the controller receives a first request to delay reproduction of broadcast content in real-time. In response to receiving the first request the controller stores, in a storage medium, first broadcast content received between a time T1 and T2. In response to detecting a second event, the controller reproduces the first broadcast content. The controller stores second broadcast content received after a time T3. After the first broadcast content is reproduced, the controller reproduces the second broadcast content.

Claims

1. A method of reproducing broadcast content received by a mobile terminal, the method comprising:

receiving a first request to delay reproduction of broadcast content in real-time, in response to detecting a first event;

storing, in a storage medium, first broadcast content received between a time T1 and a time T2, in response to receiving the first request;

reproducing the first broadcast content in response to detecting a second event;

storing second broadcast content received after a time T3 as the first broadcast content is being reproduced; and

reproducing the second broadcast content after the first broadcast content is reproduced.

2. The method of claim 1 further comprising deleting the first broadcast content from the storage medium after the first broadcast content is reproduced.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the second broadcast content is reproduced after the first broadcast content is deleted from the storage medium.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein T2 is approximately equal to T3.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the first event occurs in response to a user interacting with an interface unit of the mobile terminal.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the first event occurs in response to the mobile terminal receiving an incoming call.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the first event occurs in response to the mobile terminal initiating an outgoing call.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the first event is a communication related event directed to the mobile terminal.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the second event occurs in response to the mobile terminal ending a phone call.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the second event occurs in response to a user interacting with an interface unit of the mobile terminal.

11. A method of reproducing broadcast content received by a mobile terminal the method comprising:

receiving a first request to delay reproduction of broadcast content in real-time, in response to detecting a first event;

storing, in a first region of a storage medium, first broadcast content received between a time T1 and a time T2, in response to receiving the first request;

reproducing the first broadcast content stored in the first region of the storage medium, in response to detecting a second event; and

storing, in a second region of the storage medium, second broadcast content received after the time T2.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the first broadcast content stored in the first region of the storage medium is reproduced simultaneously as the second broadcast content is stored in the second region of the storage medium.

13. The method of claim 11, further comprising reproducing the second broadcast content after the first broadcast content is reproduced.

14. The method of claim 11, wherein the second broadcast content is received in real-time, but is not reproduced in real-time until the first broadcast content stored in the first region of the storage medium is fully reproduced.

15. The method of claim 11, further comprising deleting the first broadcast content from the first region of the storage medium after the first broadcast content is reproduced.

16. The method of claim 15, further comprising reproducing the second broadcast content stored in the second region of the storage medium after a predetermined amount of the first broadcast content is deleted from the first region of the storage medium.

17. The method of claim 15, further comprising reproducing the second broadcast content stored in the second region of the storage medium after the first broadcast content is deleted from the first region of the storage medium.

18. The method of claim 17, further comprising deleting from the second region of the storage medium second broadcast content after the second broadcast content is reproduced.

19. The method of claim 15, further comprising discontinuing storing the second broadcast content stored in the second region of the storage medium in response to determining that a predetermined amount of the second broadcast content is deleted from the second region of the storage medium.

20. The method of claim 15, further comprising:

discontinuing at a time T3 storing the second broadcast content in the second region in response to determining that the second broadcast content is deleted from the second region of the storage medium; and

reproducing third broadcast content received by the mobile terminal after time T3 in real-time.

21. A mobile communication terminal comprising:

a receiver for receiving broadcast content over a first broadcast channel; and

a controller for controlling reproduction of the broadcast content on a display of the mobile terminal,

wherein in response to detecting a first event, the controller receives a first request to delay reproduction of broadcast content received in real-time,

wherein in response to receiving the first request, the controller stores, in a storage medium, first broadcast content received between a time T1 and a time T2,

wherein in response to detecting a second event the controller reproduces the first broadcast content;

wherein the controller stores second broadcast content received after a time T3; and

wherein after the first broadcast content is reproduced the controller reproduces the second broadcast content.

22. The mobile communication terminal of claim 21, wherein the controller deletes the first broadcast content from the storage medium after the first broadcast content is reproduced.

23. The mobile communication terminal of claim 22, wherein the second broadcast content is reproduced after the first broadcast content is deleted from the storage medium.

24. The mobile communication terminal of claim 21, wherein T2 is approximately equal to T3.

25. The mobile communication terminal of claim 21, wherein the first event occurs in response to a user interacting with an interface unit of the mobile terminal.

26. The mobile communication terminal of claim 21, wherein the first event occurs in response to the mobile terminal receiving an incoming call.

27. The mobile communication terminal of claim 21, wherein the first event occurs in response to the mobile terminal initiating an outgoing call.

28. The mobile communication terminal of claim 21, wherein the first event is a communication related event directed to the mobile terminal.

29. The mobile communication terminal of claim 21, wherein the second event occurs in response to the mobile terminal ending a phone call.

30. The mobile communication terminal of claim 21, wherein the second event occurs in response to a user interacting with an interface unit of the mobile terminal.

31. A mobile terminal comprising:

a logic unit for receiving a first request to delay reproduction of broadcast content in real-time, in response to detecting a first event;

a logic unit for storing, in a first region of a storage medium, first broadcast content received between a time T1 and a time T2, in response to receiving the first request;

a logic unit for reproducing the first broadcast content stored in the first region of the storage medium, in response to detecting a second event; and

a logic unit for storing, in a second region of the storage medium, second broadcast content received after the time T2.

32. The mobile terminal of claim 31, wherein the first broadcast content stored in the first region of the storage medium is reproduced simultaneously as the second broadcast content is stored in the second region of the storage medium.

33. The mobile terminal of claim 31, further comprising a logic unit for reproducing the second broadcast content after the first broadcast content is reproduced.

34. The mobile terminal of claim 31, wherein the second broadcast content is received in real-time but is not reproduced until after the first broadcast content is fully reproduced.

35. The mobile terminal of claim 31, further comprising a logic unit for deleting from the first region of the storage medium the first broadcast content after the first broadcast content is reproduced.

36. The mobile terminal of claim 35, further comprising a logic unit for reproducing the second broadcast content stored in the second region of the storage medium, after a predetermined amount of the first broadcast content is deleted from the storage medium.

37. The mobile terminal of claim 35, further comprising a logic unit for reproducing the second broadcast content stored in the second region of the storage medium, after the first broadcast content is deleted from the first region of the storage medium.

38. The mobile terminal of claim 37, further comprising a logic unit for deleting from the second region of the storage medium, the second broadcast content after the second broadcast content is reproduced.

39. The mobile terminal of claim 35, further comprising a logic unit for discontinuing storing the second broadcast content in the second region in response to determining that a predetermined amount of the second broadcast content is deleted from the second region of the storage medium.

40. The mobile terminal of claim 35, further comprising:

a logic unit for discontinuing at a time T3 storing the second broadcast content in the second region, in response to determining that the second broadcast content is deleted from the second region of the storage medium; and

a logic unit for reproducing third broadcast content received by the mobile terminal after the time T3 in real-time.