MOBILE TERMINAL AND METHOD OF REPRODUCING BROADCAST DATA USING THE SAME

• US 20080098449A1
• Filed: 10/18/2007
• Published: 04/24/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 10/19/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: LIM, Yoenlae
• Granted Patent: US 8,505,061 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 725/131
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/41407 embedded in a portable device, e.g. video client on a mobile phone, PDA, laptop constructional details of equipment or arrangements specially adapted for portable computer application G06F1/1626; arrangements specially adapted for mobile receivers in broadcast systems H04H20/57
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/432 Content retrieval operation from a local storage medium, e.g. hard-disk details of retrieval of video data and associated meta data in video databases G06F16/739
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4331 Caching operations, e.g. of an advertisement for later insertion during playback
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4335 Housekeeping operations, e.g. prioritizing content for deletion because of storage space restrictions storage management, e.g. defragmentation G06F3/0604; unloading stored programs G06F9/445; storage management in file systems G06F16/10; buffering arrangements in a network node or in an end terminal in packet networks H04L49/90
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/64315 DVB-H

Abstract

The present invention relates to reproducing broadcast data in a mobile terminal. The present invention comprises receiving broadcast data through a broadcast channel, storing a part of the received broadcast data, receiving a command to reproduce the broadcast data, and reproducing the stored broadcast data from a past time point while continuing to store the part of the received broadcast data.

Claims

1. A method for reproducing broadcast data in a mobile terminal, the method comprising:

receiving broadcast data through a broadcast channel;

storing a part of the received broadcast data;

receiving a command to reproduce the broadcast data; and

reproducing the stored broadcast data from a past time point while continuing to store the part of the received broadcast data.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the past time point is a point of time when the part of the received broadcast data is initially stored.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the received broadcast data comprises at least two contents having different forms and the part of the received broadcast data stored comprises at least one of the at least two contents having different forms.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the at least two contents having different forms comprise at least one of video, audio and data.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the stored broadcast data corresponds to a portion of a broadcast time.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein storing a part of the received broadcast data comprises:

receiving a command signal to stop reproduction of the broadcast data received through the broadcast channel;

stopping reproduction of the received broadcast data in response to the command signal;

extracting the part of the received broadcast data for storage; and

storing the extracted broadcast data.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising deleting the stored broadcast data after reproduction.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the part of the received broadcast data for storing and the past time point is set by a user, wherein the setting can be modified by the user.

9. A mobile terminal for reproducing broadcast data, the mobile terminal comprising:

a memory;

a broadcast receiving module receiving broadcast data through a broadcast channel; and

a controller storing a part of the received broadcast data in the memory and reproducing the stored broadcast data from a past time point.

10. The mobile terminal of claim 9, wherein the past time point is a point of time when the part of the received broadcast data is initially stored in the memory.

11. The mobile terminal of claim 9, wherein the received broadcast data comprises at least two contents having different forms and the part of the received broadcast data stored in the memory comprises at least one of the at least two contents having different forms.

12. The mobile terminal of claim 11, wherein the at least two contents having different forms comprise at least one of video, audio and data.

13. The mobile terminal of claim 9, wherein the stored broadcast data corresponds to a portion of a broadcast time.

14. The mobile terminal of claim 9, wherein the controller deletes the stored broadcast data after reproduction.

15. The mobile terminal of claim 9, wherein the part of the received broadcast data for storing and the past time point is set by a user, wherein the setting can be modified by the user.

16. A method for reproducing broadcast data in a mobile terminal, the method comprising:

receiving broadcast data through a broadcast channel, wherein the received broadcast data comprises at least two contents having different forms;

storing the received broadcast data, wherein the received broadcast data stored comprises at least one of the at least two contents having different forms;

receiving a command to reproduce the broadcast data; and

reproducing a part of the stored broadcast data from a past time point while continuing to store the received broadcast data.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein the at least two contents having different forms comprise at least one of video, audio and data.

18. The method of claim 16, further comprising deleting the stored broadcast data after reproduction.

19. A mobile terminal for reproducing broadcast data, the mobile terminal comprising:

a memory;

a broadcast receiving module receiving broadcast data through a broadcast channel, wherein the received broadcast data comprises at least two contents having different forms; and

a controller storing the received broadcast data in the memory and reproducing a part of the stored broadcast data from a past time point, wherein the stored broadcast data comprises at least one of the at least two contents having different forms.

20. The method of claim 19, wherein the at least two contents having different forms comprise at least one of video, audio and data.

21. The method of claim 19, wherein the controller deletes the stored broadcast data after reproduction.