MEDIA DEVICE AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING BROADCAST PROGRAM

• US 20090031378A1
• Filed: 01/17/2008
• Published: 01/29/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 07/27/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: KIM, Hyo-joon
• Application Number:
  US12/015,786
• Publication Number:
  US 20090031378A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 725/109
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4126 The peripheral being portable, e.g. PDAs or mobile phones
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4334 Recording operations recording of a television signal H04N5/76; arrangements for recording or accumulating broadcast information or broadcast-related information H04H60/27
• 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 21/43615 Interfacing a Home Network, e.g. for connecting the client to a plurality of peripherals home Audio Video Interoperability [HAVI] data switching networks H04L12/2805
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4402 involving reformatting operations of video signals for household redistribution, storage or real-time display details of conversion of video standards at pixel level H04N7/01; video transcoding H04N19/40; adapting incoming signals to the display format of the display terminal G09G5/005; media handling at the source in data packet switching networks H04L65/764
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6125 involving transmission via Internet transmission by internet of broadcast information H04H60/82
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/17318 Direct or substantially direct transmission and handling of requests

Abstract

A media device and a method for transmitting broadcast programs are provided. The media device includes an external interface which is communicably connected to an external device, a broadcast receiving unit which receives a broadcast program, a storage unit which stores the broadcast program received by the broadcast receiving unit, and a control unit automatically transmits a certain broadcast program to the external device connected via the external interface if the certain broadcast program, which is previously selected by a user from among broadcast programs received by the broadcast receiving unit, is stored in the storage unit. Accordingly, the latest broadcast programs can be transmitted without the user identifying the broadcast programs and personally transmitting broadcast programs to the portable media player every time.

Claims

1. A media device comprising:

an external interface which is communicably connected to an external device;

a broadcast receiving unit which receives a broadcast program;

a storage unit which stores the broadcast program received by the broadcast receiving unit; and

a control unit automatically transmits a certain broadcast program to the external device connected via the external interface if the certain broadcast program, which is previously selected from among broadcast programs received by the broadcast receiving unit, is stored in the storage unit.

2. The media device of claim 1, wherein the control unit generates storage information including at least one of a unique address, a broadcast list, and a storage date of the broadcast program.

3. The media device of claim 1, wherein the external interface comprises a network address to connect to a certain network, and

the control unit provides the external device, which is connected using the network address, with the storage information.

4. The media device of claim 2, wherein if the external device is connected to the media device via the external interface, the control unit identifies the certain broadcast program corresponding to the unique address input in the external device based on the storage information, and transmits the certain broadcast program to the external device.

5. The media device of claim 2, wherein when the certain broadcast program is stored in the storage unit, if there is insufficient space in the storage unit, the control unit stops storing the certain broadcast program, or deletes an oldest stored broadcast program from among stored certain broadcast programs.

6. A method for transmitting a broadcast program, the method comprising:

storing a certain broadcast program which is previously selected from among broadcast programs which are able to be received; and

automatically transmitting the certain stored broadcast program to an external device.

7. The method of claim 6, further comprising generating storage information including at least one of a unique address, a broadcast list, and a storage date of the broadcast program.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein in the storing the certain broadcast program, if there is insufficient storage space, the storing the certain broadcast program is stopped, or an oldest stored broadcast program is deleted from among stored certain broadcast programs.

9. The method of claim 7, wherein the certain broadcast program corresponding to the unique address input in the external device is identified, and the certain broadcast program is transmitted to the external device.

10. The method of claim 8, wherein an oldest stored broadcast program is deleted from among stored certain broadcast programs according to user settings.