INTER-HOME SHARING APPARATUS AND METHOD USING HOME NETWORK DEVICE

• US 20080243869A1
• Filed: 01/28/2008
• Published: 10/02/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 03/30/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: KIM, Yoon-soo, YOON, Hyun-sik, CHOI, Sang-hoon, CHO, Joon-ho
• Granted Patent: US 8,560,497 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/10
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/2832 Interconnection of the control functionalities between home networks single bridge functionality H04L12/4625
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/56 Provisioning of proxy services store-and-forward switching systems in data switching networks H04L12/54
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/564 Enhancement of application control based on intercepted application data

Abstract

An inter-home content sharing apparatus and method are provided. The inter-home content sharing apparatus includes a home network protocol stack which communicates with the home network devices according to a home network protocol; a remote storage controller which receives a request for sharing content from the home network devices through the home network protocol, connects to a remote storage to upload the content, and controls the remote storage to extract metadata of the content; and a message controller which controls transception of notification messages including sharing information on the uploaded content.

Claims

1. An inter-home content sharing apparatus using one or more home network devices, the apparatus comprising:

a home network protocol stack which communicates with the home network devices according to a home network protocol;

a remote storage controller which receives a request for sharing content from the home network devices through the home network protocol, connects to a remote storage to upload the content, and controls the remote storage to extract metadata of the content; and

a message controller which controls transception of notification messages including sharing information on the uploaded content.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, further comprises:

a sample data storage which downloads sample data of the content from the remote storage and stores the sample data; and

a metadata controller which extracts sample data from the sample data storage and generates metadata based on the extracted sample data.

3. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the home network protocol stack transmits an event message based on the extracted metadata to the home network devices.

4. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the home network protocol stack transmits an event message corresponding to the sharing request of the home network devices to the home network devices.

5. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the remote storage controller generates a uniform resource locator( URL) of the remote storage by using a key value corresponding to the uploaded content.

6. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the remote storage controller connects to the remote storage when receives a request of releasing the content sharing from the home network device, and deletes contents corresponding to the request of releasing the content sharing.

7. The apparatus of claim 6, wherein the notification message includes information on the content sharing release.

8. The apparatus of claim 2, wherein the remote storage controller compares contents stored in the remote storage with sample data stored in the sample data storage when the apparatus is booted up.

9. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the home network protocol is Universal Plug and Play(UPnP).

10. An inter-home content sharing system using home network devices, the system comprising:

two or more inter-home content sharing apparatuses, each of which comprising;

a home network protocol stack which communicates with the home network devices according to a home network protocol;

a remote storage controller which receives a request for sharing contents from the home network devices through the home network protocol stack, connects to a remote storage to upload the contents, and controls the remote storage to extract metadata of the contents; and

a message controller which controls transception of notification messages including sharing information on the uploaded contents;

the home network devices, which are connected to the inter-home content sharing apparatus through a home network and request a transmitting inter-home content sharing apparatus to share contents or release content sharing; and

a remote storage which is connected to two or more inter-home content sharing apparatuses through an Internet, stores contents uploaded by the transmitting inter-home content sharing apparatus, extracts metadata of the uploaded contents, and transmits the metadata to a receiving inter-home content sharing apparatus.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein each of the inter-home content sharing apparatuses further comprises:

a sample data storage which downloads sample data of the content from the remote storage and stores the sample data; and

a metadata controller which extracts sample data from the sample data storage and generating metadata based on the extracted sample data.

12. An inter-home content sharing method using home network devices, the method comprising:

receiving a notification message including sharing information on uploaded contents from a transmitting inter-home content sharing apparatus which uploads contents to a remote storage;

connecting to the remote storage according to the received notification message to check the uploaded contents and downloading metadata of the contents; and

transmitting an event message based on the metadata to a receiving home network device.

13. An inter-home content sharing method using home network devices, the method comprising:

receiving a notification message including information on content from a transmitting inter-home content sharing apparatus which uploads the content to a remote storage;

connecting to the remote storage according to the received notification message to check the uploaded content and downloading sample data of the content; and

extracting metadata based on the sample data and transmitting an event message based on the extracted metadata to a receiving home network device.

14. An inter-home content sharing method using home network devices, the method comprising:

receiving a request for sharing content from a transmitting home network device;

uploading the content to a remote storage according to the sharing request; and

transmitting a notification message including sharing information on the uploaded content to a receiving inter-home content sharing apparatus.

15. The method of claim 14, further comprising:

connecting to the remote storage according to the notification message and downloading metadata of the uploaded content; and

transmitting an event message based on the metadata to a receiving home network device.

16. The method of claim 14, further comprising:

connecting to the remote storage according to the notification message and downloading sample data of the uploaded content;

extracting metadata based on the sample data; and

transmitting an event message based on the extracted metadata to a receiving home network apparatus.

17. The method of claim 15, wherein downloading sample data of the uploaded content comprises accessing a uniform resource locator(URL) of the remote storage which is generated by using a key value corresponding to the uploaded content.

18. The method of claim 16, wherein the downloading sample data of the uploaded content comprises accessing a uniform resource locator(URL) of the remote storage which is generated by using a key value corresponding to the uploaded content.

19. A computer-readable medium having embodied thereon a computer program for an inter-home content sharing method using home network devices, the method comprising:

receiving a notification message including sharing information on uploaded contents from a transmitting inter-home content sharing apparatus which uploads contents to a remote storage;

connecting to the remote storage according to the received notification message to check the uploaded contents and downloading metadata of the contents; and

transmitting an event message based on the metadata to a receiving home network device.