METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING INFORMATION THROUGH NETWORK

• US 20080270907A1
• Filed: 01/24/2008
• Published: 10/30/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 04/26/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: KIM, Hyo
• Application Number:
  US12/018,816
• Publication Number:
  US 20080270907A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/733
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9577 Optimising the visualization of content, e.g. distillation of HTML documents
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0484 for the control of specific functions or operations, e.g. selecting or manipulating an object, an image or a displayed text element, setting a parameter value or selecting a range

Abstract

Provided is a method and apparatus for providing information through a network. The method of providing information through a network includes: setting correspondence relations between first information, that is provided in a network site and a user wants to acquire through the network, and the appearance of an application; requesting a server for the first information and receiving a response; analyzing second information included in the response; and displaying the second information by manipulating the appearance of the application, according to the correspondence relations without visiting the network site or activating another application.

Claims

1. A method of providing information through a network, comprising:

setting correspondence relations between first information, that is provided in a network site and a user wants to acquire through the network, and appearance of an application;

requesting a server for the first information and receiving a response;

analyzing second information included in the response; and

displaying the second information by manipulating the appearance of the application, according to the correspondence relations without visiting the network site or activating another application.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein in displaying the second information by manipulating the appearance of the application, the appearance of the application is changed according to a type and content of the first information.

3. The method of claim 1,

wherein the setting of the correspondence relations comprises providing a predetermined menu screen used for setting the correspondence relations, and

wherein the predetermined menu screen is a menu screen for setting one or more items of a plurality of items associated with the correspondence relations.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the first information comprises at least one of weather, a stock price, an exchange rate, a traffic situation, a daily horoscope, a biorhythm, and a sports game result.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein requesting the first information and receiving the response is automatically performed during a predetermined period.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the requesting the first information and receiving the response is performed by using at least one of Rich Site Summary or Really Simple Syndication (RSS), and Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX).

7. The method of claim 1, wherein in the displaying of the second information by manipulating the appearance of the application, at least one of a form of an object of the application, a shape of an object of the application, a color of an object of the application, and a movement of an object of the application is changed.

8. An apparatus for providing information through a network, comprising:

an application engine which sets correspondence relations between first information, which is provided in a network site and a user wants to obtain through the network, and appearance of an application;

a communication unit which requests a server for the first information and receives a response;

an information analysis unit which analyzes second information included in the response; and

an application display control unit which displays the second information by manipulating the appearance of the application, according to the correspondence relations without visiting the network site or activating another application.

9. The apparatus of claim 8, wherein the application display control unit changes the appearance of the application according to a type and content of the first information.

10. The apparatus of claim 8,

wherein the application engine provides a predetermined menu screen used for setting the correspondence relations, and

wherein the predetermined menu screen is a menu screen used for setting one or more items of a plurality of items associated with the correspondence relations.

11. The apparatus of claim 8, wherein the first information comprises at least one of weather, a stock price, an exchange rate, a traffic situation, a daily horoscope, a biorhythm, and a sports game result.

12. The apparatus of claim 8, wherein the communication unit automatically requests the first information and receives the response during a predetermined period.

13. The apparatus of claim 8, wherein the communication unit requests the first information and receives the response by using at least one of Rich Site Summary or Really Simple Syndication (RSS), and Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX).

14. The apparatus of claim 8, wherein the application display control unit changes at least one of a form of an object of the application, a shape of an object of the application, a color of an object of the application, and a movement of an object of the application to display the second information.